Sentences with phrase «injects millions of gallons of water»

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and undisclosed chemicals at high pressure into horizontal wells to crack...

We believe that fracking poses a tremendous threat to agriculture, to our drinking water, and to our climate, because when you are injecting millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand, four or five miles underground at very high pressure and breaking open the rock and releasing gas there's all sorts of contamination that can happen.

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How can anyone possibly think that injecting millions of gallons of chemically laced water into the ground is a good idea!!?? Are people fracking nuts?!

With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.

Concerns over hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that injects millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale, have largely focused on potential impacts on water quality.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

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.

A congressional investigation disclosed that companies across the country have illegally injected millions of gallons of diesel fuel underground without obtaining Safe Drinking Water Act permits.

Other harms are certainties, like the rendering of millions of gallons of potentially potable water undrinkable by toxifying the water and injecting it into the ground.

During the fracking process, millions of gallons of fracking fluid — a mixture of water, sand and toxic chemicals — are injected into the ground to break up the shale and release natural gas.