Like hundreds of Pennsylvanians who have had their well water contaminated, you might expect the color of your tap water to change to brown, to exude a gross smell, to make you ill and to perhaps even be flammable…

But there are those who cling to the industry promises of clean practices that have proven painfully misleading.

There are, without a doubt, plenty of folks in Bucks County who believe such nonsense, notwithstanding the results of SRBC water quality studies conducted following the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of thousands of gas wells there. Those studies have found “no discernible impact on the quality of water resources as a result of natural gas development.” We can show them the words, we can even read them the words, but they’ll continue to believe what they want to believe.