Sentences with phrase «frack fluids include»

Not exact matches

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Until there is clarity here, no matter how sound the report's conclusions (and many are, including its criticisms of industry resistance to revealing ingredients in fracking fluid), the school and Groat have left themselves open to legitimate criticism, including those leveled in a blog post calling this practice «Frackademia.»

In the past two years alone, a series of surface spills, including two blowouts at wells operated by Chesapeake Energy and EOG Resources and a spill of 8000 gallons of fracking fluid at a site in Dimock, Pa., have contaminated groundwater in the Marcellus Shale region.