Well Water Burns; Homeowners Are Hot Too

Fracking Pollution

Bonnie Baron
Courthouse News Service

WEATHERFORD, Texas (CN) - A couple says the well water for their $5 million "dream house" west of Fort Worth has become flammable because of natural gas drilling - and the drilling company had the brass to accuse them of trying to profit by it by seeking a lower tax valuation and phonying up "little videos for the people out there." 
   

Steven and Shyla Lipsky say both the EPA and the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas production in Texas, have traced the problem to drilling by defendant Range Resources Corp.
   

The Lipskys also sued the developer, Silverado on the Brazos Development Co., which they say promised them that there would be no oil or gas drilling in their development.