Sentences with phrase «for frack fluid»

George Howard serves as vice chairman of the MEC, and as the chairman of the chemical disclosure committee, which is tasked with creating regulations for frack fluid and other fracking chemicals.

Not exact matches

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says Tuesday that Cabot has agreed to publicly disclose its policy and procedures for eliminating or minimizing the use of toxic substances in fracking fluids.

EPA officials have repeatedly said that disclosure of the fluids used in fracking — something that would be required if the bill being debated in Congress were passed — would enable them to investigate contamination incidents faster, more conclusively and for less money.

Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.

Investigations by The New York Times last winter revealed that sewage - treatment plants processing fracking wastewater are discharging radioactive fluid into public waterways, in some cases upstream of intake sites for drinking water.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

They looked both at wells used for enhanced oil recovery — in which fluid is injected to flush lingering oil from a depleted reservoir — and at those used to dispose of wastewater from conventional oil and gas extraction or from hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Varun Gupta, a scientist with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Computational Engineering group, was recently quoted in an article describing an environmentally benign fracking fluid developed for capturing geothermal energy, known as StimuFrac ™.

According to Gupta, who is part of the research team, StimuFrac consistently outperformed conventional fluids used for hydraulic fracturing and «is believed to have lower critical pore invasion pressure that provides further advantage over conventional fracking fluids.»

My concern is that many will read the title, «Geochemical evidence for possible natural migration of Marcellus Formation brine to shallow aquifers in Pennsylvania,» and immediately infer that residual treatment water (i.e., frack fluid) is most likely to leak into groundwater from depths of several thousand feet.

It's from instances where waste fluids — for example, the water used in fracking — are injected deep into the earth.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.

US natural gas editors discuss carbon emission caps, falling NYMEX July gas prices, contract expirations looming for gas pipelines, and fracking fluids in Wyoming.

During offshore fracking, a significant amount of fracking fluid returns to the surface and is either discharged into the ocean or transported for onshore ground injection.

Even the Obama - era Environmental Protection Agency, which harbored little affection for the energy industry, concluded that fracking is «unlikely to generate sufficient pressure to drive fluids into shallow drinking water zones.»

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Did fracking fluids ever contain industrial waste mixtures which, if pumped into the ground for non-gas production purposes, would have been regulated as hazardous waste?

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In addition, fracking flowback fluids, also filled with toxic chemicals, can rise to the surface and create stagnant, poisonous ponds that pollute the environment and create a hazard for humans, wild animals and livestock.