Expenses a company has when it drills for oil or natural gas. Intangible drilling costs are sometimes convenient for a company's tax purposes because it can deduct intangible drilling costs in one year when the company perhaps found little or no oil from profits made in a different year when the company does find oil.
Bruce Lanphear, a professor at Simon Fraser University and also an expert in lead toxicity, said Edwards not only studies the impact of lead in water, but he makes his testing available to communities in need, like he did in Flint.
On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 the district received the results from the remaining 53 samples that were conducted for possible lead contamination in the school's water. Of the total 69 different outlets tested, one showed a higher level of lead in the water than is accepted by the New York State Health Department.