Not exact matches
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).
Another prime concern is water contamination either
from poorly constructed wells or mismanagement of water and other
fluids used during
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of wells to liberate gas
from the shale.
The Texas company will also spend «spend $ 20 million to implement preventive measures and the required recycling and disposal of
fluids from hydraulic fracturing and well operations.»
According to the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, during the first half of 2013 in the Marcellus shale play, 90 percent of the more than 14 million barrels of produced
fluids from fracturing was reused.12 That represents a significant savings in the amount of new water needed for
hydraulic fracturing elsewhere, and illustrates the industry's focus on environmental issues and efforts to reduce the impacts of energy development on resources and communities.
The process of extracting natural gas
from shale deposits includes
hydraulic fracturing, during which
fluids and solids are pumped into the well.
Ohio is in the final stages of making an Exxon trojan horse on hydrofracking into state law, and it appears that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connected Exxon's lawyers with co-sponsors of Ohio Senate Bill 315: at least 33 of the 45 Ohio legislators who co-sponsored SB 315 are ALEC members, and language
from portions of the state Senate bill is similar to ALEC's «Disclosure of
Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act.»
A 2014 report
from the Groundwater Protection Council documented «continuous and significant regulatory improvement by state oil and gas agencies across the county» and concluded «the risk of
fracture fluid intrusion into groundwater
from the
hydraulic fracturing of deeper conventional and unconventional oil and gas zones can be considered very low.»
Three company spokesmen and a regulatory official said in separate interviews with ProPublica that as much as 85 percent of the
fluids used during
hydraulic fracturing is being left underground after wells are drilled in the Marcellus Shale, the massive gas deposit that stretches
from New York to Tennessee.
Todd Wynn writes how «ALEC has been at the forefront of the effort to retain state sovereignty over
hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA
hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EP
fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the
Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA
Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EP
Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations
from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).»