In 2001, her water well exploded with methane and gray sediment the same day drillers pumped fluids underground to
frack a well nearby.
Not exact matches
The famous - among - environmentalists jug of brown «Dimock - water» comes from a Pennsylvania town where a
fracking operation polluted
nearby wells.
But when you drive through communities that are experiencing
fracking, and you hear and see the
wells and truck traffic, you talk to people living
nearby, it highlights why no one should have to live near a
fracking well,» said Hawkins.
Improperly drilled
wells or faulty
well casings can leak
fracking fluids and methane gas into
nearby aquifers and water
wells.
Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating
nearby aquifers and
wells, as
well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.
This massive development has led to more than 3,900 brine spills, mostly coming from faulty pipes built to transport
fracked wells» flowback water from on - site holding containers to
nearby injection
wells where it will be disposed underground.»
Scientists suspected that the Arkansas earthquakes were triggered by the injection of approximately 94.5 million gallons of
fracking wastewater into to
nearby wells, which then made its way into the basement layer during a nine - month period.
Two days after the earthquake caused by a
nearby fracking well the mayor said, «I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.»