Butler County residents protest after state tests of their wells absolve driller
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette
Sue Morrow of Butler joins protesters gathered Thursday in downtown Butler to oppose Rex Energy Marcellus Shale drilling and demand that clean water be restored in their Connoquenessing Township community.
Janet McIntyre of The Woodlands, a rural community in southern Butler County, said her well water foams and turns purple when it comes out of her faucet.
"When I bathe in it, I get rashes, so I'm thinking I shouldn't be drinking it, either," she said Thursday afternoon at a rally and march by more than 75 people to the downtown Butler office of Rex Energy Inc. to protest the company's decision to stop providing replacement water to the McIntyres and 10 other families in the Connoquenessing Township community, 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.
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