did not investigate legitimate complaints from citizens in garfield county. if you lived in or in a rural residential area and you were in a low lying area your house was in a low lying area that could accumulate these gases when they come off the tank battery and so forth you may be breathing those for twelve hours a day one of the concerns of the agency with respect to the oil and gas industry is how much volatile organic carbon how much volatile gases come from the industry especially from storage of oil or storage of gas. last summer in an effort to track down how much volatile organic carbon was coming from the oil and gas industry a unique study was undertaken by the u.p.a. and e.p.a. brought in some infrared cameras. and turned them towards these oil and gas facilities under infrared light. the volatile organic commissions were visible. they looked like. a mirage. and so one could see in this in pretty good bread cameron the amount of volatile organic carbon coming off these storage tanks. every well is drilled into us straight and it has organic chemi

several citizens requests from garfield county and the citizens were saying. gosh my drinking water might be contaminated by this practice or the air we breathe might be affected e.p.a. can you look into it e.p.a. should of. myself and another staff person we had prepared the letters and we were we were ready to write to the colorado oil and gas commission that we felt that this practice cause him in a substantial risk to public drinking water source and that e.p.a. was going to take over the investigation however as soon as we got that through our political appointee supervisors they cancelled that investigation so e.p.a. did not investigate legitimate complaints from citizens and garfield county. if you live in a rural residential area and you were in a low lying area your house was in a low lying area they could accumulate the gases when they come off the tank battery and so forth you need to be breathing those for twelve hours a day and one of the concerns of the agency with respect to the oil and gas industry is how much of volatile organic carbon and how

down themselves in garfield county looking for a new home there is chris. one thousand nine hundred ninety five they bought their dream house a fixer upper in a rural neighborhood outside rifle. with a low without place and we've plenty just a bit funny. it was shortly after chris and steve moved in the drilling rigs began to appear on some of their neighbors land and in the surrounding hills. everything terri. crisp would get in the shower. her skin turned bright red i think. her or her skin was it was burning fire she was. steve began to develop symptoms as well i feel dizzy. i give her the nose as chris is health began to deteriorate rapidly she began losing her sight had severe headaches and had pain in her hands and feet there were two surgeries to remove a pituitary tumor and she developed a rare neurological speech impairment but i think i think i. always say. place. i've had several patients who have. been. having symptoms since the time they were exposed to oil and gas exploration near their homes these are all people in a small cluster around rifl

county located high in the colorado rockies was always a quiet rural area for its residents. but in the one nine hundred ninety s. things started to change. gas and oil drilling began to boom and development has expanded dramatically each year when i first came to colorado twenty seven years ago the energy production was for all the time that there was the synthetic fuels corporation and it was all about oil shale natural gas they didn't have pipelines for it and so they were trying to figure out what to do with all the natural gas there was a lot but there was no use for a little time now natural gas was the biggest thing that's going on in lester in colorado. there's no in canada leases in here crossroads corp and over there on ten acre spacing for me are really what you're looking for and you know how many wells around pair. you can see three four hundred wells. you're standing right over a pipeline right here by the way. right where we stand and we had a spill. you see over my head here we've got the neighbor's wells three forum over there and that stack closest to the bl

in their survey, they ask one person who lived in garfield county, one person who lived in king county, one in wayne, nobody in pi ute and then went five miles by car duenas 132 in salt lake city. what kind of validity which you gave to the survey sample? >> without the methodology, the question is purely both vague and provides direction to the answer. we just recently completed a survey of rat and internet protection in utah and one of our primary concerns was if we simply draw a random sample in utah, we are going to get a large majority from different counties of salt lake, davis and weaver. if that the only people we asked, we can identify with the results of the survey will be. they will infect him a solid access to high-speed internet. so we had to use a different sampling methodology to ensure that she got geographic representation in the sample. and so, that would be our approach to dealing with those potential problems. >> i appreciate that very much except those counties from a district. they are good people. i want to thank the witnesses who have been here to give their tes