ELECTION - FINAL RESULTS

We are now able to bring you the final results for the 2011 Elections

 Once again we must thank the Independent Electoral Commision and elections.org.co.za for providing these statistics.

NATIONAL RESULTS

National Results

NATIONAL PERCENTAGES

National Percentages

ADDITIONAL RESULTS STATISTICS

Additional Statistics

Finally, an update on our earlier news item: DA calls for recount:

After the recount, the DA has won outright control of Cape Town Metro with 61% of the vote. This story will be featured on AndNowComrade? in our post election coverage.

These stats bring our Special Edition coverage to an end. However, we have much more commentary coming very soon from our correspondents, covering the post election politicing among the various parties.


NOTE: If the links to the results documents do not work, please use the comment form to notify us. Some configuration changes to the site hosting these documents may have resulted in a broken link.

posted by: babasizwe

ELECTION RESULTS - WARD WINNERS

We are pleased to be able to bring you these results from the Independent Electoral Commision, of Ward Winners in the Metropolitan Regions of South Africa. We also provide links to an interactive map giving all the regional results:

WARD RESULTS FROM THE IEC

Bloemfontein (Mangaung)

Cape Town

Durban (e-Thekwini)

East London (Buffalo City)

East Rand (Ekerhuleni)

Johannesburg

Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay)

Pretoria (Tshwane)

Interactive Map

Election Map

"Interactive Local Election Map"

NOTE: If the links to the results documents do not work, please use the comment form to notify us. Some configuration changes to the site hosting these documents may have resulted in a broken link.

Unprecedented Voter Turnout

While we still await the final results from the IEC, We are now able to bring some statistics which are representative of the final outcome.

There are a number of outcomes worthy of comment:

Voter Turnout:

The impression given by analysts halfway through Wednesday polling was of extremely poor voter participation. How wrong can the analysts be;

Unprecedented turnout of almost 57% for the municipal elections; the highest ever for an election of this nature in South Africa - can be attributed to an exciting election campaign and the tight contests that were expected in key areas, analysts and politicians say.

Thanks to all for a memorable day!

Your correspondent would like to thank all who helped make yesterday, 18 May 2011 one to remember. Especially, thanks must go to our readers who endured all the update notifications; without you there would be no reason to write these articles.

I will still be around for a few more days while the various posts are edited (and just maybe a little longer thereafter), and will no doubt have a final say.

Babasizwe

SABC ELECTION RESULTS WEBSITE FEED CRASHES

The much promised live update from the SABC website on http://www.sabc.co.za/wps/portal/news/pages/home Has crashed!!!

The page returns the following message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, you@your.address and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

---

IBM_HTTP_Server Server at www.sabc.co.za Port 80

Could anything else have been expected!


Babasizwe, Johennesburg, South Africa

Up to 18% Dropoff of Voter Turnout

Political anlayst says us many as 18% fewer votes may have been cast in this election, with the biggest dropoff among black voters. From 48 percent voter participation in 2006, a little over 40% of the electorate may have cast the vote today.

via SABC TV2 Political Newscentre Cape Town

If so this would surely be a "vote" of no confidence in the performance of elected officials. More to follow on this item from this correspondent.

Babasizwe, from Johannesburg

Cape voters threaten to boycott future elections

Community members in poorer Cape Town communities said they will boycott future elections if no improvements made

Story at EWN

angasivukasizwe from Cape Town

Voting Still Continues

21h51 Johannesburg:
A handful of polling stations are still processing voters. Counting will start after all voters have finished..

Source: SABC TV2
Babasizwe

IEC official suspected of influencing voters

The Independent Electoral Commission has said it is investigating a report that one of its own officials has been trying to influence voters at a polling station in the Western Cape.

Provincial Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz claims the official has been asked to leave the station in Factreton after attempting to persuade voters in the queue to support the National Party South Africa.

Eyewitness News

Babasizwe....

First election results announced

The first local government elections results feom Independent Electoral Commission’s results centre in Pretoria.
Randfontein in Western Gauteng. The ANC gained 57.1 percent of the vote and the Democratic Alliance 42.9 percent.

Babasizwe...

War Talk Heats Up

"Political war talk heated up on Wednesday afternoon as voting day entered its last stretch, with the opposition DA crying foul while the ruling ANC boasted about electioneering being "in its blood".

"we are actually happy that other parties were campaigning in the manner they were campaigning. This is in our blood, we are used to it, it's in our DNA," ANC elections head Fikile Mbalula,"

May 18, 2011 5:07 PM | via Sapa

Full story at timeslive.co.za

ANC cries foul over DA bread handouts

Voting in the Western Cape was largely uneventful, marred only by an ANC complaint to the IEC that the Democratic Alliance was handing out bread to voters.

Patricia de Lille, the DA's mayoral candidate in Cape Town, said she was unaware of the incident and doubted that any DA official would have done what was alleged

More at: iol.co.za and on ETV News

‘Boycott TV licence over election coverage’

Unequal party exposure and excessive coverage of ANC by SABC finally provokes strong reaction

See the feed on iol.co.za

Babasizwe: from Johannesburg South Africa

Polling Closed - Election Peaceful

Most Polling Stations throughout South Africa are now closed, the majority on time at 19h00, although a few are still processing those voters already in the queue.

From all accounts it appears the election went off peacefully; we are trawling news feeds to find any exceptions.

SABC News claims DA and ANC supporters are celebrating in a friendly manner, both confident of victory, while DA Leader Helen Zille is reported to be lodging complaint with IEC over suspected ballot illegularities. More on this story as it develops

DA remains silent over claims by ANC they will win Cape Town Metropolitan.

Babasizwe, from Johannesburg, South Africa

Today's Voting Experience

As promised, your correspondent did it the hard way today. First up was the 'rural long distance walk' or in this case it was the urban version...

Beginning with second look in at Charter House (Little Falls) where it was still fairly quiet, no more than 70 people. Then down to Panorama Primary School (Voting Station for Weltevreden Park) where it was very quiet. no more than 7 vehicles outside (as well as another 6 belonging to election officials and party personel). Inside were no more than 15 voters. (11h30 SAST approx).

What was very clear from the publicity banners outside the venue, and in the surrounds, was these are both strong Democratic Alliance (DA) wards. At Panorama, a solitary sign for the ANC on the back of a party vehicle, and a lonely looking couple representing the Freedom Front, one would have though suspected there were any other candidates for this ward.

Zille cries foul

Zille cries foul in Mandela Bay Officials withholding proportional ballot paper
May 18, 2011 3:35

Helen Zille headed for the IEC office in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro this afternoon to report that election officials in at least one polling station were withholding proportional ballot papers from ill-prepared voters.

Full story at

http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=66041

Babasizwe...

SA Polling is Peaceful

SA polls peaceful - Natjoints

As politicians renewed their call for people to go out and vote on Wednesday afternoon, the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (Natjoints) said it was satisfied that communities across South Africa are casting their ballots in stable and peaceful conditions.
Natjoints is operating from a military base in Pretoria and is responsible for coordinating all security-related activities for the local government elections.

Over 131,000 people have been deployed under Natjoints, including police, soldiers, metro police and Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) staff.........

Eyewitness News: SA polls peaceful - Natjoints

Babasizwe...

From Nelson Mandela Bay

Voters at Missionvale queueing since 02hoo. Still unable to vote - no ballot papers yet
via SMS at 09h07

Municipal elections in 283 towns and cities

The 2011 4th South African Nationwide Municipal Elections in 283 cities and towns got underway this morning at 07h00.

By all acounts a chilly morning, with cool weather expected in most parts:
Johannesburg ▼7° ▲18° Cape Town ▼10° ▲18° Vereeniging ▼5° ▲19° Pretoria ▼10° ▲20° Durban 18° ▲24°


Close on 24 million people are registered to vote in the polls ......

People have already queuing at some stations across the country in a bid to cast their votes as early as possible.

MIDVAAL, JHB
All eyes will be on Midvaal, south of Johannesburg, as the ANC battles to regain control of the only DA run municipality in Gauteng.

At the Sicelo informal settlement, in Midvaal, there are almost 200 voters in the queue with some saying they have been queuing since 3am. They said they are there to vote for change.

The informal settlement has been the focus of the ANC campaign in Midvaal with close to 1,000 portable toilets delivered here by the provincial government last week.

They said the DA run municipality has not provided for poor black communities but the mayor said he asked for the toilets a year ago and the provincial government refused.

IEC officials told Eyewitness News that they expect up 9,000 to vote there today.


ZANDPRUIT INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, JHB There is a strong police presence in the area; has been the scene of recent violent service delivery protests.

MITCHELL’S PLAIN, Cape Town along with Khayelitsha and Hangberg in Hout Bay are regarded as hotspot areas in hotly contested Cape Town Municipality.

VOTING PROBLEMS

Despite assurances everything would be ready at 7am, it was not to be. Ballot papers not arrived at 7am in Soweto.

Other areas experiencing problems include Sunnyside, in Pretoria, Lonehill station and Protea Ridge north which were not opened by 7.30am.


POLITICIANS VOTING

DA leader Helen Zille will vote in Cape Town at 8am while her Johannesburg mayoral candidate Mmusi Maimane will cast his ballot at the Allan Glen High School in Roodepoort at the same time.

IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi votes at 9:45 in Ulundi and President Jacob Zuma has gone home to Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal where he will vote at 11am.

Johannesburg Mayor Amos Masondo voted at the Eastgate Primary School.

PROBLEM AREAS

Potential problem areas have been identified as Flagstaff and Pedi in the Eastern Cape, Standerton and Balfour in Mpumalanga and Nongoma, Ulundi, Umsinga and Durban.

More on this story:
http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/

From Times Live: In spite of a few problem areas,

'Most peaceful' contest
The campaign for tomorrow's poll had been the most peaceful campaign of all post-apartheid electioneering, the Election Monitoring Network said yesterday

I visited the nearest polling station shortly after 07h00 Charter House Pre-Preparatory School to get a feel of the atmosphere. There were around 40 people braving the early morning chill, in a calm and jovial mood.

More soon
Babasizwe...

Voting Day Begins

From all accounts the nation is ready to vote.

In just a few hours polling stations will open, and the rush will begin.

Although today is a public holiday, many will be going to work. Among them the staff of shopping outlets, who will be working so the rest of us can buy our daily supplies.

This correspondent spoke to a few of these today. In particular one lady, a shop assistant at the local Spar, said she would be going to vote before going to work... She lives in Soweto, and works in the north western suburb of Little Falls. This means in addition to the 3 hours she spends every day travelling in each direction by mini-bus taxi, she will need to catch an extra taxi at dawn to the polling booth.

This will be a common experience for many of our citizens...

AndNow Comrade? correspondents will later today be joining the vast majority of our fellow citizens in using one of the limited available public transport or other methods to get to a polling station, and will bring you their experiences.

Our Cape Town correspondent will be travelling by metrorail; from Johannesburg, I, Babasizwe will be using the minibus, and later will try what millions will be doing especially in our rural communities, where the only regular form of transport is on foot.

Until Later

Babasizwe, reporting from Johannesburg

The Ant

Changing from our usual style; on the eve of the election we bring some light hearted relief to our postings:

ORIGINAL VERSION 

 

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

 

THE MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!

                                                                                        

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference, demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

SABC1, 2 and 3 show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The world is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Good Morning with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Demonstrations are held in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'

TV commentators explain that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and there are calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the Government drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government and handed to relatives of the grasshopper.

The grasshopper instigates a lawsuit against the ant, and the case is tried under the watchful eyes of the trade unions.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighbourhood.

                                                                                       

THE MORAL OF THIS STORY: 

Be VERY careful how you vote on the 18th of MAY 2011!! 

Editors Message:

We will be bringing update comentary throughout the day on Wednesday 18 May. Postings will be placed as they come in, and editing will continue later.

A POTENTIAL FRACKING DISASTER

The ANC’s Ministry of Environmental and Energy Affairs is seriously considering allowing fracking in the Karoo basin. The ANC want to provide jobs for a few people in the Karoo.  What about protecting the drinking water, land and air of the citizens who elected them into power?

Fracking fluids contain high levels of ethane, methane, and benzene. Chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) “is also used in fracking and drilling. The public have no way of knowing what’s in fracking fluids because the chemicals used are  a “trade secret,”or rather, many trade secrets.

FRACKING CAUSES FURTHER ROCK FRACTURES, and the toxic chemicals are meant to prop open the rock.

During fracking millions of litres of water, sand and numerous chemicals- most of which are toxic, carcinogic and teratogenic (they include benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylene, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), diesel fuel, naphthalene (moth ball) compounds, boric acid, arsenic, poly nuclear organic hydrocarbons, only to name a few of 500-odd chemicals used), are pumped into boreholes at high pressure to release natural gas (called shale gas) trapped in layers of underground rock.

Fracking contaminates entire water tables, and weakens stability of rock through high pressure fracturing . This has led to an earthquake in New Arkansas in the US and who knows where else already.

FRACKING CAUSES ROCK FRACTURES and the toxic chemicals are meant to prop open the rock and keep the fractures open, causing further cracks in the rock table.

In some areas people are able to light their drinking water into flame with a lighter.  The water causes rashes, fainting as a result of the chemicals in the water released into the shower area. It also causes the hair of animals to fall out and, of course, all plants and insect life to die in a wide swathe several kilometres out from the fracking site area.

Below is other information on post-fracking environmental impact studies and documented environmental damage.

A Trespasser You Can't Shoot

It travels silently underground poisoning your water.
It floats invisibly above, polluting the air your children, animals and you breathe.
It contaminates the Earth beneath your feet.
It stalks the halls of the Texas State Capitol, greasing the palms of weak and greedy men and women.
They in turn have created a Free Pass for this trespasser.

Information on the consequences of fracking on people in one farming community: A Colossal Fracking Mess

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/06/fracking-in-pennsylvania-201006

Quote:  “I own farm land in mid eastern Alberta. We had really good clear water from our 200ft well up until last year. Now the water smells really bad and is a grey colour, it will clear if it's run for a long time but the colour and smell return within a few hours of being turned off. The only thing that is different or new in the area are GAS WELLS.” written by Chuck , November 29, 2010

For information on the damage fracking has already caused, visit http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-guest-blog-for-earthjustice.html#links – DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Study: Shale Gas Threatens Human Health

Hydraulic Fracturing

• Frackers Receive Imminent and Substantial Endangerment Order from EPA
• My statement at the EPA hydraulic fracturing meeting
• If hydraulic fracturing is so safe, why does Halliburton need indemnification?
• TEXAS HAS NO REGULATION SPECIFIC TO HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
• Life Cycle Modeling of Wellbore Cement Systems Used for Enhanced Geothermal System Development
• Why are drilling induced earthquakes acceptable while geothermal earthquakes aren't?
• EPA Confirms Drinking Water Contamination By Toxics Used in Fracturing
• Breaking! Chesapeake Official Admits: Fracking Fluid Deadly!
• Update on Cattle Killed by Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid in Louisiana
• Face-Off Over 'Fracking': Water Battle Brews On Hill
• Tell Congress to close the "Halliburton Loophole" to protect drinking water from contamination
• Hydraulic Fracture: Oops! Wrong Formation!
• Hexavalent Chromium Used for Hydraulic Fracturing
• Midland Hexavalent Chromium Contamination Spreads. Hydraulic Fracture Giant Still Prime Suspect.
• Frac Water Chemicals Chemical Components (From MSDS)
• Hydraulic Fracture: Your Money or Your Life
• Hydraulic Fracturing: Me thinks thou dost protest too much
• Hydraulic Fracturing and Barnett Shale Earthquakes: Some Fracking History
• Hydraulic Fracture: The Truth About State versus Federal Regulation
• Contamination Case Pending on Hydraulic Fracturing Giant Schlumberger
• Close the Halliburton Loophole
• EPA Admits Hydraulic Fracturing Risks Needs More Study
• Hydraulic Fracture Fluid Kills Cattle Near Chesapeake Well
• Hydraulic Fracture: Precise or Imprecise?
• Natural Gas Production Causing Water Bankruptcy
• Video: Hydraulic Fracture - Barnett Shale Gas Well
• If hydraulic fracturing is so damn safe, why does Big Oil need exemptions?
• Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.
• Viewer Reactions to Hydraulic Fracturing Film
• Fracing Fluid Chemicals Identified
• Dick Cheney and Halliburton Fracking in YOUR Drinking Water.

Natural Gas: Myth Busting the Clean Energy and Keeping Us Safer Lies

• Myth Busting 1
• Myth Busting 2
• Myth Busting: Sarah Palin's Big Lie
• Watch these important videos

Water: Depletion

• Natural Gas Production Causing Water Bankruptcy
• Barnett Shale Water Use: The Facts You Must Face.
• Barnett Shale Drilling: An Insatiable Thirst
• Devon Energy Testing New Water Recycling Program
• We Have a Groundwater District!
• Upper Trinity Ground Water Conservation District
• Groundwater Conservation Districts are a good first step

Water: Pollution

• Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.
• Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise County?
• Frac Water Chemicals Chemical Components (From MSDS)
• Dick Cheney and Halliburton: Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals in YOUR Drinking Water.
• “Hydraulic Fracturing” of [Barnett] Shale, America Strikes a Faustian Bargain
• Fire Water: With Compliments From EnCana
• Another Story of Water Poisoned by Gas Wells
• Poisoned Aquifer: Barnett Shale, fracing up our water.
• Burning Water Compliments of the Barnett Shale
• Five Years Later, Panola County Citizens Finally Get Clean Water
• Drilling Waste Poisons Water, Goats Die, Railroad Commission Yawns
• Gas Well Contaminates Water Wells With Benzene
• Texas Egregiously Exceeded Permits.
• Don't Drink the Water
• Barnett Shale drilling: Depleting and polluting our water in Wise County, Texas
• Will Wise County get Fort Worth's Barnett Shale drilling waste water?

Air Pollution

• Texas OGAP interactive map shows TCEQ air monitoring locations
• A Victory for Barnett Shale Communities!
• Governor Perry doesn't want to reduce the pollutants in our air.
• Barnett Shale Compressor Station Can Emit 6 Times More VOC's Than Cement Plant
• Find Fugitive Emission Videos in Your Area
• Barnett Shale Victim: DISH, TX Resident Tested Positive for Carbon Disulfide
• EDF Analysis: Barnett Shale Drilling Causes Polluted Air
• Dear EPA: TX Regulators too Conflicted to Regulate
• NPR: State Tests Air Around Drilling And Pipeline Sites
• "Clean-burning" Natural Gas has a Dirty Secret - Caught on Video
• Seeing Methane Leaks Through an Infrared Camera
• BREAKING: Methane 3 times higher than normal in DISH, TX
• Barnett Shale: The Personal Tragedies of DISH, Texas
• City reports toxic results of study of natural gas complex
• What the Barnett Shale Brought to DISH,TX
• In DISH, TX, Animals Go To Sleep and Never Wake Up
• Does the gas industry threaten your health?
• URGENT: Health Survey For All Current and Former Clark/DISH, Texas Residents
• Evaluation of Town of DISH, Texas Ambient Air Monitoring Analysis
• STATE DATA SUPPORTS CONCLUSIONS OF EDF/SMU STUDY ON BARNETT SHALE EMISSIONS
• Report: Emissions from Natural Gas Production in the Barnett Shale Area
• Video Shows Emissions From Barnett Shale Drilling Rig In Denton County, Texas
• Devon Has Duty to Minimize Air Pollution. (And they can afford it!)
• Want Cancer? Move to Texas.
• Gas Extraction Causes Ozone Alerts in Wyoming
• Chesapeake Energy: Latest Plan for Drilling Waste
• The Domestic Drilling Agenda: How We Can Protect Ourselves From the Environmental Devastation

Radioactive Drilling Waste

• Radioactive Drilling Sand
• Barnett Shale Radioactive Waste is Bone-Seeking Carcinogen When Airborne and Has 1622 Year Half-Life
• RRC Has Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy on Barnett Shale Radioactive Waste
• Barnett Shale and NORM - Eye Opening News

Sludge Pits

• More Barnett Shale Sludge Pit Pollution Pictures
• PIctures of Barnett Shale Pollution in Wise County
• A Barnett Shale Sludge Pit Looks Like This

Injection/Disposal Wells

• They Call Them Saltwater Disposal/Injection Wells
• Injection Well In Aledo Fails.
• Texas Injection Wells and Sinkhole Make National News
• Another Injection Well Fire Burns for Seven Hours
• How Are Injection Well and Gas Coupling Inspections Alike?
• An Injection Well, Up Close and Personal.
• Update: Injection Well Fire! NOT the First Time
• Oh Lookie! One Of Those "Safe" Injection Wells is On Fire
• Stop The Lies: Read This Injection Well Permit

Pipelines and Explosions

• Several posts you can scroll through

Big Oil and Big Money Buys Big Influence

• Big Oil. HUGE Money. ENORMOUS Influence.
• Oil and Gas Profits Used to Lobby Against You and Me
• Devon Energy: $2.6 Billion Profit Buys Lobbyist
• Devon Energy Net for 2007: $3.6 billion

Noise Pollution & Quality of Life

• Barnett Shale Gas Well Compressor Noise Tortures Wise County
• Are you terrorized by Barnett Shale compressor noise?
• Shelley Fell Into the Barnett Shale Hell

Massive operation to contain hydraulic fracturing fluid at Chesapeake well

Another hydraulic fracturing accident at a Chesapeake well.

Gas Drilling Emergency in Bradford County

A massive operation is underway in Bradford County to deal with a spill at a natural gas well in LeRoy Township near Canton.

By now you know the drill...sorry.

1. They were fracking,
2. the well blew out at the surface,
3. thousands and thousands or dangerous chemicals are flowing all over the place.

·         through fields

·         over personal property and farms

·         even where cattle graze

http://txsharon.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

House Explodes in Quitman Arkansas. Natural Gas In Water Well Nearby!

We last posted an article about a water well on Locust Street in Quitman which has natural gas spewing out of it.  Since that time, some residents in that neighborhood have complained of headaches and feeling sick all the time. A few residents have filmed the water well bubbling and spewing gas out of the abandoned water well.  Residents in the Locust Street neighborhood have been voicing their fears of gas migration in the area.  One woman actually passed out in her own home and has constant headaches.  Fox says the gas well is scheduled to be capped off tomorrow.  This neighbor is very frightened that the gas well being capped off will cause more gas to migrate into their home.  The family of the house that exploded escaped harm, but the house was charred to its bare frame.   Fox 16 reports.