Free Lance-Star: High on a list of concerns about the prospect of the first-ever gas and oil drilling in Virginia's Coastal Plain east of Fredericksburg is whether it could contaminate water wells and the vast reservoirs of groundwater they tap into.
During two packed workshops in December hosted by Friends of the Rappahannock and Caroline County Countryside Alliance, some in the audience wondered who would be liable for water contamination from a faulty well or chemical spill, and how it could be cleaned up....