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    Secrets of Fracking Fluids Pave Way for Cleaner Recipe


    The myriad liquid concoctions used in hydraulic fracturing make for quite a recipe book. Since January 2011, FracFocus, an online chemical-disclosure registry, has assembled a list of the mixtures used at more than 52,000 oil and gas wells across the United States. In these data, geochemist Brian Ellis sees opportunity. He plans to mix different chemicals into oil- and gas-rich shale rock inside a pair of high-pressure chambers that he is building. This will allow him to explore the reactions that occur when these ‘fracking’ fluids are injected deep underground.

    The fluids, which are mixed with sand, are predominantly water, laced with 1% ‘special sauce’. The recipes for that fraction — a mixture that includes acids, solvents and corrosion inhibitors — were until the last few years secrets guarded by the companies that seek to penetrate shale formations to release stores of fossil fuels. But in the face of widespread concern about water contamination, 21 US states have adopted mandatory disclosure rules for the mixtures, making it easier for scientists such as Ellis, of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, to assess their impacts.

    Much of the data end up in registries such as FracFocus, which is overseen by state energy and water organizations. “There are still a lot of bugs, but the vast majority of companies are now disclosing their chemicals,” says Scott Anderson, a senior policy adviser for the Environmental Defense Fund in Austin, Texas, which advocates for greener fracking procedures.


    http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...AT_SP_20130916

    I read where 30% of TX water is going to fracking while:



    http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_south.htm



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    Medina Lake would still be at record lows with or without fracking.

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    Medina Lake would still be at record lows with or without fracking.
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    trying to figure out what point you are trying to make at this point, though i should scold myself for thinking any type of real discussion would occur.

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    Frackademia: The People and Money Behind the EDF Methane Emissions Study

    UT-Austin has released the Steering Committee roster for the study. It consists of lead author David Allen, two EDF employees, and nine oil industry representatives, including lobbyists and PR staff from ExxonMobil, S , Southwestern Energy and more.

    One of the report's co-authors currently works as a consultant for the oil and gas industry, while another formerly worked as a petroleum engineer before entering academia.
    The study will likely be paraded as "definitive" by Big Oil, its front groups and the media in the days and weeks to come.

    "How can we explain this huge discrepancy?" Howarth asked. "[Industry does] it better when they know they are being carefully watched. When measurements are made at sites the industry chooses and at times the industry allows, emissions are lower than the norm."

    Lastly, Howarth points out that unlike his April 2011 study, this study didn't do a lifecycle analysis, limiting the data set to fracked well sites.

    http://truth-out.org/news/item/18915-frackademia-the-people-and-money-behind-the-edf-methane-emissions-study


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    Colorado’s Fracking Disaster

    In Colorado's flood-struck areas, a tsunami of floodwater and destructive debris swamped fracking infrastructure.

    now comes the added horror of unknown levels of poisonous contaminants pouring out of many of the thousands of fracking sites that pock this area.

    Big Oil frackers were already notorious in Boulder and Weld Counties for the environmental, health, and economic damage being done by this ravaging method of forcing gas out of the rock deep under Earth’s surface. Now, though, the corporate wells, tanks, ponds, and other fracking infrastructure have been swamped by a tsunami of floodwater and destructive debris.

    East Boulder County United/Facebook

    Even in the chaos of people scrambling to get out of the flood’s way and to secure their property, many residents were so alarmed by seeing this mess of flooded wells, overturned tanks of highly toxic chemicals and wastewater, and ruptured lines that they paused to take pictures and videos.


    They then posted these on websites and Facebook pages to do ent this unexpected threat of widespread, long-term damage from fracking contaminants and to alert neighbors to the dangers.


    After all, the frackers themselves weren’t telling the public about this unfolding disaster, the big media outlets were curiously incurious about it, and regulators were also silent. So, like the pamphleteers of old, the people formed their own network of communication — and they’ve now turned it into a citizens’ action network. To see some of their photos, videos, and actions, go to www.facebook.com/EastBoulderCountyUnited.

    http://otherwords.org/colorados-fracking-disaster/


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    Its one thing for the Conspiracy bashing bags to disagree with us it's another when they run and hide when the turns out to be true.

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    Radioactive Water Streaming Out of Pennsylvania Fracking Waste Site

    Report reveals 'surprising magnitude of radioactivity' in local water sources from fracking waste



    Waste-water from a hydraulic fracturing site in Pennsylvania that is treated and released into local streams has caused high levels of toxic contamination, including elevated levels of radioactive materials, a report released Wednesday exposes.

    "We were surprised by the magnitude of radioactivity" downstream from the plant, said co-author Avner Vengosh, geochemistry professor at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. "It's unusual to find this level,"

    The Duke University study, published on Wednesday, examined the water discharged from Josephine Brine Treatment Facility into Blacklick Creek, which feeds into a water source for western Pennsylvania cities, including Pittsburgh. Scientists took samples upstream and downstream from the treatment facility over a two-year period, with the last sample taken in June this year.

    Elevated levels of chloride and bromide, combined with strontium, radium, oxygen, and hydrogen isotopic compositions, are present in the Marcellus shale waste waters

    radium levels in the Pennsylvania stream sediments where waste-water was discharged were about "200 times greater than upstream and background sediments and above radioactive waste disposal threshold regulations, posing potential environmental risks of radium bio-ac ulation in localized areas of shale gas waste-water disposal."

    Each day, oil and gas producers generate 2 billion gallons of waste-water,” said co-author Robert B. Jackson, Duke professor of environmental science, Tuesday. “They produce more waste-water than hydrocarbons. That’s the broader implication of this study. We have to do something with this waste-water."

    http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/02-7

    The sky people unstoppable, winning! Will they ever pay for their pollution from their "externalities", or their kids drink the water they pollute?





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    Shut It All Down: Report Calls for Nationwide Ban on Fracking

    Hydraulic fracturing gas drilling turning America's water into cancer-causing, radioactive waste

    The explosion of hydraulic fracturing in the last several years, according to a new report, is creating a previously 'unimaginable' situation in which hundreds of billions of gallons of the nation's fresh water supply are being annually transformed into unusable—sometimes radioactive—cancer-causing wastewater.

    According to the report, Fracking by the Numbers, produced by Environment America, the scale and severity of fracking’s myriad impacts betray all claims that natural gas is a "cleaner" or somehow less damaging alternative to other fossil fuels.


    The report explores various ways in which gas fracking negatively impacts both human health and the environment, including the contamination of drinking water, overuse of scarce water sources, the effect of air pollution on public health, its connection to global warming, and the overall cost imposed on communities where fracking operations are located.


    “The bottom line is this: The numbers on fracking add up to an environmental nightmare,” said John Rumpler, the report's lead author and senior attorney for Environment America. “For our environment and for public health, we need to put a stop to fracking.”


    In fact, the report concludes that in state's where the practice is now occurring, immediate moratoriums should be enacted and in states where the practice has yet to be approved, bans should be legislated to prevent this kind of drilling from ever occurring.


    Though the report acknowledges its too early to know the full the extent of the damage caused by the controversial drilling practice, it found that even a look at the "limited data" available—taken mostly from industry reports and government figures between 2005 and 2012—paints "an increasingly clear picture of the damage that fracking has done to our environment and health."


    So what are the numbers?


    The report measured key indicators of fracking threats across the country, and found:


    • 280 billion gallons of toxic wastewater generated in 2012,
    • 450,000 tons of air pollution produced in one year,
    • 250 billion gallons of fresh water used since 2005,
    • 360,000 acres of land degraded since 2005,
    • 100 million metric tons of global warming pollution since 2005.

    “The numbers don't lie," said Rumbpler. "Fracking has taken a dirty and destructive toll on our environment. If this dirty drilling continues unchecked, these numbers will only get worse."

    http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/04-5

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    Welcome to Gasland: Denton, Texas Residents Face Fracking Impacts From EagleRidge Energy

    In Denton, Texas, 40 miles northwest of Dallas, residents and students at the University of North Texas are getting a free course in what it’s like to live in the middle of a fracking field.

    Although Denton officials created an ordinance mandating that fracking sites be at least 1,200 feet from homes, sites with gas wells already in place are exempt from the new rule. Some are less than 200 feet away from homes. Since Denton is full of existing drill pads, many find themselves living in the shadow of a fracking installation that exposes them to chemicals, noise and bright lights.


    "Now we have a frack site across the street from our dorms and the drill extends underneath half of the campus,” Hinojosa says. "Our campus looks pathetic with a fracking site situated 100 feet away from the university’s three wind turbines and platinum LEED certified football stadium, surrounded by signs saying, ‘We mean green!’ ”

    industry used the “vested rights” loophole that allows them to work on sites with existing gas wells.

    When the students and larger numbers of the public began attending city council meetings, industry started to bring in their own representatives. Hinojosa says, "Fake grassroots organizations would send vans full of people with prepared speeches that claimed fracking to be safe and clean. No matter how hard we worked on our speeches, our voices seemed mute compared to the fracking industry." (and TB laughed and laughed and laughed at these silly Na'vi simpletons! )

    “Incompatible With Neighborhoods:” Homeowners Complain of Toxic Fumes

    Many homeowners who purchased property in subdivisions near Bonnie Brae Street and Vintage Boulevard have had a rude awakening too. Drilling rigs were set up a few hundred feet from the developments. No one in the neighborhood retained their mineral rights. Homebuyers were not explicitly informed about the mineral rights or that not owning them could become an issue. Disclosure laws have not kept pace with the increasing threat industry poses to homeowners.

    Many worry their property values will nose dive and they won’t be able to sell now that fracking is in full swing.

    "Texas is conducting real world experiments in people's backyards without their consent,” he said. “Though legally you can sell homes to people without their informed consent, it is not ethical."

    Insurance companies
    have taken notice of risks associated with fracking and don’t cover fracking-related risks to homeowners.

    “According to Mark Grawe, Chief Operating Officer at EagleRidge Energy (EagleRidge), Denton residents who object to his company’s reckless operations way too close to their homes, schools and parks are terrorists worthy of inclusion on the Department of Homeland Security’s watch list."

    http://truth-out.org/news/item/20519...leridge-energy

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    They've been fracking for 50 years.

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    Protest Fracking, End Up on a Terrorist Watchlist

    Eagleridge Inc. Chief Operations Officer Mark Grawe brought an armed cop with him to a November 13 Homeowners Association meeting in Mansfield, a suburb of Fort Worth, Tex., and told residents that anyone who protested his company’s gas wells — some of which are located less than 200 feet from homes, schools and playgrounds — would find themselves on Department of Homeland Security terrorist watch lists.


    Though “terrorism” is understood to mean the use of violence and intimidation for political coercion, Grawe showed no sense of irony bringing a guard armed with a gun, a taser and a can of pepper spray to a neighborhood meeting to help deliver his pro-fracking message.


    It’s unclear whether Grawe’s statements were off-the-cuff errors or part of a deliberate strategy. The remarks certainly aren’t winning him PR victories, as the response from a blogger with the Drilling Awareness Group (DAG), based in Denton, Tex., makes clear.


    The DAG blogger asserts, indignantly, that citizens opposing fracking wells in their back yards “are not radicals” and do not break the law for holding their beliefs. The odd insinuation here, of course, is that so-called “radicals” who do break the law are deserving of the terrorist label, even though the rapidly growing nationwide movement against fracking has been almost entirely peaceful.


    Grawe seems to be operating straight out of the frack industry playbook. In a do ent leaked earlier this year, one of the largest corporate intelligence firms, Stratfor, laid out a strategy for defeating public opposition to petrochemical infrastructure. Stratfor categorizes activists as “radicals,” “idealists,” “realists,” and “opportunists.”


    Stratfor analysts define their “realists” as willing to “live with trade-offs” and “work within the system.” In that sense, the Drilling Awareness Group would be labeled “realists”: they want to regulate fracking, not ban it.

    According to Stratfor, “realists” should be given highest priority attention because they are more likely to capitulate than radicals. The strategy, as stated by the firm, is to “isolate the radicals” and “co-opt the realists into agreeing with industry.”

    http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/10/...OISwmvfXWf5.99

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    Fort Worth Shows Why So Many Towns Are Banning Fracking


    Several cities and counties in the U.S. have ins uted bans or moratoria on the oil and gas extraction technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in recent years and Fort Worth’s experience with urban fracking shows why.

    “Fort Worth has been fracked to capacity,” resident Don Young told DeSmog Blog. “There is no turning back. Some days the air is so bad you can’t see downtown.”
    Chesapeake Energy began offering $300 and a pizza party for owners of mineral rights in predominantly poor and working class African American neighborhoods in 2003 and encountered little resistance, DeSmog Blogreported. Now Fort Worth has around 2,000 wells.

    Residents have been sickened by vapors from drilling operations, found their neighborhoods suddenly ruined by noise and fumes, and had their water sucked up by drilling operations in the middle of severe drought. Five sites were found in 2011 to be emitting pollution above state limits, according to a study commissioned by the Fort Worth City Council, and most of the 388 sites studied released visible emissions.


    Right next door to Fort Worth, the Dallas city council is considering letting fracking start up in town with a vote likely to come next week, capping a three-year fight over the future of fracking in the city. Until recently, Dallas had rejected attempts to frack in town, but that stance seems to be over. Current debate is over the distance required between wells and homes or wells and other wells: 1,500 feet or 1,000.

    Dallas’ fracking ordinance is being considered just as researchers from Southern Methodist University linked a series of Texas earthquakes to injection of fracking wastewater into the ground. The Fort Worth Basin hadn’t experienced an earthquake prior to 2008, but 2009 and 2010 saw over 50 occur.

    Experiences like Fort Worth’s are a key reason communities across the U.S. and the world have mobilized to place bans or moratoria on fracking. Four Colorado cities passed fracking bans in November by popular vote, in spite of drilling industry campaigns against the initiatives. Their ultimate success is uncertain, as the Colorado gas industry is suing to try and block three of the four, a battle that will likely end in the state Supreme Court, but towns in New York and Pennsylvania, and counties in New Mexico and Hawaii maintain theirs.


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    Experts Eye Oil and Gas Industry as Quakes Shake Oklahoma

    OKLAHOMA CITY — Mary Catherine Sexton has been rattled enough.

    This fall her neighborhood in the northeastern part of this city has been shaken by dozens of minor earthquakes. “We would just have little trembles all the time,” she said.

    Even before a magnitude 4.5 quake on Saturday knocked objects off her walls and a stone from above her neighbor’s bay window, Ms. Sexton was on edge.

    “People are fed up with the earthquakes,” she said. “Our kids are scared. We’re scared.”

    Oklahoma has never been known as earthquake country, with a yearly average of about 50 tremors, almost all of them minor. But in the past three years, the state has had thousands of quakes. This year has been the most active, with more than 2,600 so far, including 87 last week.

    While most have been too slight to be felt, some, like the quake on Saturday and a smaller one in November that cracked a bathroom wall in Ms. Sexton’s house, have been sensed over a wide area and caused damage. In 2011, a magnitude 5.6 quake — the biggest ever recorded in the state — injured two people and severely damaged more than a dozen homes, some beyond repair.

    State officials say they are concerned, and residents accustomed to tornadoes and hail are now talking about buying earthquake insurance.

    “I’m scared there’s going to be a bigger one,” Ms. Sexton said.

    Just as unsettling in a state where more than 340,000 jobs are tied to the oil and gas industry is what scientists say may be causing many of the quakes: the widespread industry practice of disposing of billions of gallons of wastewater that is produced along with oil and gas, by injecting it under pressure into wells that reach permeable rock formations.

    “Disposal wells pose the biggest risk,” said Austin Holland, a seismologist with the Oklahoma Geological Survey, who is studying the various clusters of quakes around the state.

    Oklahoma has more than 4,000 disposal wells for waste from tens of thousands of oil and gas wells. “Could we be looking at some ulative tipping point? Yes, that’s absolutely possible,” Dr. Holland said. But there could be other explanations for the increase in earthquakes, he added.

    Scientists have known for years that injection wells and other human activities can induce earthquakes by changing pressures underground. That can have the effect of “unclamping” old stressed faults so the rocks can slip past each other and cause the ground to shake.

    The weight of water behind a new dam in China, for example, is thought to have induced a 2008 quake in Sichuan Province that killed 80,000 people. In Australia, a 1989 quake that killed 13 people was attributed in part to the opposite effect — the removal of millions of tons of coal during more than two centuries of mining.

    In other places, including California and Switzerland, enhanced geothermal projects, in which water is pumped into hot rocks deep underground to produce energy, have caused quakes.

    In Texas, some earthquakes have been connected to the industry practice of “water flooding,” increasing the yield of older oil wells by pumping water into nearby wells to force the oil out, said Cliff Frohlich, a University of Texas scientist. In other cases, Dr. Frohlich said, just the extraction of oil and gas from a long-producing field has been seen to induce quakes.

    The practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — injecting liquid at high pressures into shale rock — causes very small tremors as the rocks break, releasing trapped oil or gas. The technique has also been linked to a few minor earthquakes — in Oklahoma about a year ago, and in England and British Columbia. Yet unlike the continuing clusters of quakes elsewhere, the fracking-related earthquakes occurred only over short time periods, scientists say.

    Of greater potential concern, scientists say, is wastewater disposal — from fracked or more conventional wells. Disposal wells linked to quakes have been shut down in a few states, including Arkansas and Ohio.

    Along with oil and gas, water comes out of wells, often in enormous amounts, and must be disposed of continuously. Because transporting water, usually by truck, is costly, disposal wells are commonly located near producing wells.

    The oil and gas industry points out that many of Oklahoma’s disposal wells are in areas with no earthquake activity, and that the practice of injecting wastewater has been going on for years.

    “We’ve been doing this for a long time and it hasn’t been an issue before,” said Chad Warmington, president of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association.

    But Dr. Frohlich said that what had changed was where the disposal was occurring. With the boom in production of oil and gas from shale formations, he said, “People are disposing of fluids in places they haven’t before.”

    Still, it is difficult to show a definitive link between a group of quakes and nearby disposal wells, and Dr. Holland thinks there may be other explanations for some of the recent quakes, including the largest one, which occurred on a known fault line about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City.

    Oklahoma does have natural seismic activity, he noted, and has had a few powerful quakes in the past, including one with a magnitude of 5.5 in 1952 and one estimated at about a magnitude of 7 that the geological record shows occurred 1,300 years ago. He also thinks changes in the water level of a large nearby lake may be responsible for some of the quakes around Oklahoma City, although he says this is not the most likely explanation.

    The swarm of quakes has state regulators concerned, but cautious.

    “We have to look at what data and scientific evidence supports some connection,” before deciding on steps to manage the risk, said Dana L. Murphy, a commissioner with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Theoretically, at least, the commission could order some wells to be shut.

    Already the commission has reached an agreement with a disposal well operator in Love County, about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City, to reduce the amount of wastewater injected into his well. The facility had been operating for only two weeks, injecting up to 400,000 gallons of water a day from nearby fracking operations, when earthquakes started occurring in September, including one that toppled a chimney and caused other damage.

    All the shaking in the state has people talking about what to do if a bigger one were to hit. “I’ve been through a lot of tornadoes — you can go hide from them,” said Bill Hediger, whose home in Edmond, just north of Oklahoma City, shows cracks in the walls from the magnitude 5.6 quake. “But you can’t hide from an earthquake.”

    Dr. Holland said that given the geological record, he could not rule out the possibility that a larger quake may occur in the state.

    Ms. Sexton said she was not against the oil and gas industry, but added that if the quakes in her area were definitively linked to disposal wells, they should be shut down.

    “It would hurt oil and gas,” she said. “But it’s oil and gas hurting homeowners and making people fearful.”

    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/science/earth/as-quakes-shake-oklahoma-scientists-eye-oil-and-gas-industry.html?from=homepage



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    Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Found in Water at Fracking Sites

    Water samples collected at Colorado sites where hydraulic fracturing was used to extract natural gas show the presence of chemicals that have been linked to infertility, birth defects and cancer, scientists reported Monday.
    The study, published in the journal Endocrinology, also found elevated levels of the hormone-disrupting chemicals in the Colorado River, where wastewater released during accidental spills at nearby wells could wind up.
    Tests of water from sites with no fracking activity also revealed the activity of so-called endocrine-disrupting chemicals, or EDCs. But the levels from these control sites were lower than in places with direct links to fracking, the study found.
    "With fracking on the rise, populations may face greater health risks from increased endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure," said senior author Susan Nagel, who investigates the health effects of estrogen at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.
    Fracking involves injecting millions of gallons of chemical-laced water and sand deep underground to crack shale formations and unlock oil and gas. The process is exempt from some regulations that are part of the Safe Drinking Water Act, and energy companies do not have to disclose the chemicals they use if they consider that information a trade secret.

    http://truth-out.org/news/item/20696...fracking-sites

    "Honey, sorry I get get a hard on anymore, but our stock in the BigOil is way up. That should help pay our co-pays for your reproductive organ cancers, and trying to fix our baby boy's hypospadia!"






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    Thats crazy, all that Mansfield and Fort Worth stuff happened right down the street not too terribly far from here. If that s threatened me with homeland security I would have Got dead in his ass. chump cop or not that little pussy.

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    Marc McCord on How Dallas Was Saved From Frac'ing

    On December 11, the Dallas City Council passed America's most restrictive hydraulic fracturing ordinance. In nearby cities, including Fort Worth, Arlington and Denton,drilling less than 300 feet from residences is not unknown; in Dallas, the new restrictions - including outlawing drilling closer than 1,500 feet from residences and other sensitive areas - essentially prevent drilling from taking place at all, according to oil and gas industry representatives.

    FracDallas, a community activist group
    dedicated to keeping hydraulic fracturing out of Dallas, waged a campaign for more than four years to keep it out of the city. The organization was founded and directed by Marc McCord, an avid outdoorsman who has been involved in environmental protection efforts for more than 20 years. He holds degrees in electrical engineering and aviation electrical engineering, as well as certificates in IBM Systems 3x technology, microcomputer systems technology and video production/broadcast engineering and started educating himself about hydraulic fracturing in 2009. Once he realized the hazards that would follow in its wake, he and FracDallas worked relentlessly to keep it out of Dallas. Their victory is seen as a major blow against industry and sets a precedent that cannot be ignored.


    http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/2...d-from-fracing


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    I wonder how long they can hold on to that decision. and if the fracking is done horizontally what is keeping them from just drilling outside the Dallas area to get to the source?

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    As Texas Towns Shake, Regulators Sit Still
    State Oil and Gas Regulator Says No Changes Needed After Latest Earthquake Swarm


    After twenty minor earthquakes in a month, residents in the small towns of Azle and Springtown outside of Fort Worth are understandably confused about why their once-stable region is now trembling on a near-daily basis.

    Teachers in the Azle school district are taking a page from the California playbook and holding earthquake drills for students. Inspectors are making regular visits to the earthen Eagle Mountain Lake dam, as well as others in the area, checking for damage. (So far they’ve found none.) And locals like Rebecca Williams are constantly looking at their own homes for damage. So far she’s found cracks in her home, driveway and in a retaining wall in her backyard.
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    "homes for damage. So far she’s found cracks in her home, driveway and in a retaining wall in her backyard. more"

    who is responsible? who is going to pay for the damages, which are probably just beginning. BigOilGas? yeah, right



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    Texas Waste Water Disposal Wells: map

    http://www.texastribune.org/series/w...-fracking/map/

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    The culture of safety, (BigOil) profits always trump human life.

    On-The-Job Deaths ing As Oil Drilling Quickly Expands


    Blue-collar workers, hit hard by automation and factory offshoring, have been struggling to find high-paying jobs.

    One industry does offer opportunity: As baby boomers retire and drilling increases, oil and gas companies are hiring. They added between 2009 and 2012.

    But the hiring spree has come with a terrible price: Last year, 138 workers were killed on the job — an increase of more than 100 percent since 2009.


    In fact, the fatality rate among oil and gas workers is now nearly than the all-industry rate of for every 100,000 workers.


    The e in deaths may reflect the inexperience of the workforce, as well as worker exhaustion and other factors, experts say.


    "During times of high demand like now, there are new workers brought into this industry, and these are workers that may not have relevant training and experience," says Ryan Hill, who heads the oil and gas extraction program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Ins ute for Occupational Safety and Health. "They didn't grow up around the industry, especially in some of the newer oil fields."


    Hill says the tough working conditions add to the dangers.


    "Workers in this industry typically work 12- to 14-hour shifts for a week or two consecutively. The type of work that workers do often requires performing repe ive and physical labor."


    http://www.npr.org/2013/12/27/250807...s?sc=17&f=1001



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