Sentences with phrase «of gallons of water laced»
The gas is extracted using a method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves pumping millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals deep underground to blast open the shale and release the gas trapped inside.
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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?!
A few people began warning about the dangers of shooting millions of gallons of chemical - laced water into the earth.
The proposal to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for natural gas involving the injection of millions of gallons of chemically laced water, has caused a furor around the state.
Its construction would require a drilling method called Hydraulic Directional Drilling, which uses millions of gallons of bentonite slick water, typically laced with diesel fuel, to drill longitudinally under rivers and other structures.