Sentences with phrase «made fracking fluids»
Other people are making money, taking petroleum jobs, leasing oil sites and selling freshwater needed to make fracking fluid and maintain the active wells.
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Fleets of trucks have to make hundreds of trips to carry the fracking fluid to and from each well site.
They were especially alarmed after heavy rains created serious flooding in the Southern Tier, adding to the worries that runoff from fracking fluid would make the process even more dangerous.
Previous studies have shown that fracking fluids contain high levels of salts, barium and radioactive elements, in addition to human - made chemicals added in the process of hydraulic fracturing.
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.
The risk of human - made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high - pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust, according to new research.
A separate study at Cornell University recently identified yet another mechanism increasing the risk of carrying contaminants from the path of the fracking fluids into clean groundwater reservoirs: the same properties that make the fluids effective at fracking help fracking fluids dissolve contaminants like heavy metals that up until now have clung safely to soils in the form of colloids.