Investigating the Possible Effects of
Fracking Fluids on Earthquakes
Not exact matches
But perusing newspapers from towns where
fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing re
fracking is going
on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by
Fracking Fluids» appearing re
Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.
The benefit of addressing public concern about the composition of the
fracking fluids «outweighs the restriction
on company action, the cost of reporting, and any intellectual property value of proprietary chemicals.»
Both
fracking and wastewater injections can increase the
fluid pressure in the natural pores and fractures in rock, or change the state of stress
on existing faults, to produce earthquakes.
Most of the drill sites flooded had already been
fracked, and were actively producing oil or gas — so chemicals added to
fracking fluids should not have been
on site.
«How to get a handle
on potential risks posed by
fracking fluids.»
A bill now under consideration
on Capitol Hill would grant the EPA oversight of
fracking and force drilling companies, which are currently exempt from portions of the Clean Water Act, to disclose the chemicals they use in fracturing
fluids.
And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine,
fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based
on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007.
The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks at a variety of ways
fracking could have an effect
on local drinking water: withdrawing millions of gallons of water needed to
frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the water at the well, injecting that
fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two miles beneath the surface, handling the contaminated water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing of that water.
But the industry as a whole has been recalcitrant «
on this whole question of disclosing
fracking fluids,» she said.
Well, I drilled me a well and she's ready for frackin» Old Marcellus, she's callin» my name Frackfish are jumpin», that
frack fluid pumpin» Frack water keep flowin» on past just the
frack fluid pumpin»
Frack water keep flowin» on past just the
Frack water keep flowin»
on past just the same
The compromise
on the chemical concentrations was that the chemicals and concentrations would be listed separately from the descriptions of the products in the
frack fluid.
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