If you care about the environment, there's a good chance you've seen the award-winning anti-fracking documentary, Gasland. And if you did, you surely remember the alarming result of natural gas drilling in rural Pennsylvania: People were able to light their tap water with a match! That's because of dangerous levels of the highly flammable gas methane polluting their wells. In Louisiana, we've been warning for months of foul odors and dangerous gas pollution in the vicinity of the ever-expanding Bayou Corne sinkhole, where inept regulators and a corrupt corporation have created a huge problem underneath the earth that is now wreaking havoc on the surface. And now this:
Imagine going to grab a glass of water only to find out what's brewing inside the cup could burst into flames.
"if i can light the water in my faucet something is wrong," said Napoleonville resident Ronald Pate.
Pate lives four miles away from a giant sinkhole in Bayou Corne. He says ever since the hole formed he's noticed something extra in the water.
"I noticed more bubbles in the water," said Pate. "I mean it wasn't like that before."
It's no laughing matter. Officials from the Louisiana Department of ...
