The latest is from Deborah Rogers concerning the most recent BS air quality testing in Fort Worth. (BS - Barnett Shale...and yet it's original meaning still fits). You can read the letter in its entirety at TXSharon.
Firstly, TITAN Engineering is a firm with no in-house testing capabilities. Such a study is not typical of the work in which TITAN is usually engaged. They do, however, have close economic ties to Chesapeake Energy.
Secondly, the times, dates and duration of the tests were known beforehand by each operator. Nothing was random. Nothing was done without the full knowledge of those being tested. In addition, the City of Ft. Worth was involved in the site selection process.
Thirdly, ten sites were chosen as representative of over 2,000 total sites within the city. This is not a large enough comparison sampling and yet the information contained is most enlightening.
No analysis of drilling, fracking or flaring were included by TITAN. It is curious that the industry and the City of Ft. Worth would omit such obvious candidates for testing given that flaring in particular is known to be one of the most egregious polluters and contributors of benzene emissions in the entire drilling process.
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