Agreed.Well, the well head is not always over the place that is getting fracked.
The places where the seepage might be occurring are often many miles away from the wellhead.
"The potential for problems may be larger simply because your bore-length is much longer than a vertical plot."
No...I don't want any pollution of aquifers either. I also don't want any pollution of the air or oceans etc. I realize my car pollutes the air and flushing dead batteries down the toilet probably messes something up. But it's too inefficient to do otherwise.
Polluting aquifers is far worse than the air, ocean, or any other medium I can think of.
why come?
Aquifers are a confined space that we can't really clean. Air and water pollution is typically dispersed while if you put into a ground water supply it sits there and moves slow as . The slow movement is good in that the initial contamination is contained but we just don't know much about how GW moves.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/718/
for anyone interested. the real question is "how likely are they to leak ?".
It's interesting that people that are concerned with the possibilities of stem cell research are okay with this. Seems the same decision calculus is not used.
true and, for such individuals, i'm not sure what ethical guidelines sway their positions on environmental concerns because, as you pointed out, they do seem to be diametrically opposed to the ones that sway their beliefs on biomedical research.
Thanks! Didn't know that. *continues developing drilling prospects for HORIZONTAL WELLS*
it's sure destroyed the dove hunting at my dad's place outside of Three Rivers.
For a year (with extensions), North Dakota allows drillers to burn gas, just let it flare. There are now so many gas wells burning fires in the North Dakota night, the fracking fields can be seen from deep space.
Natural Resources Defense Council, every day drillers in North Dakota "burn off enough gas to heat half a million homes."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/20...cc=es-20130120
Pennsylvania Court Deals Blow to Secrecy-Obsessed Fracking Industry: Corporations Not The Same As Persons With Privacy Rights
A Pennsylvania judge in the heart of the Keystone State’s fracking belt has issued a forceful and precedent-setting decision holding that there is no corporate right to privacy under that state’s cons ution, giving citizens and journalists a powerful tool to understand the health and environmental impacts of natural gas drilling in their communities.
“Whether a right of privacy for businesses exists within the prenumbral rights of Pennsylvania’s cons ution is a matter of first impression,” wrote Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge Debbie O’Dell Seneca late last month. “It does not.”
Judge O’Dell Seneca’s ruling comes in an ongoing case where several newspapers sued to unseal a confidential settlement where major fracking corporations paid $750,000 to a family that claimed the gas drilling had contaminated their water and harmed their health. The Court ordered that settlement unsealed, enabling the papers, environmentalists and community rights advocates to examine the health issues and causes.
http://www.alternet.org/fracking/pen...tions-not-same
"The Court’s ruling is significant because the fracking companies have relied on secrecy agreements with landowners to hide the environmental and health impacts of gas drilling. "
lol hide.
lol alternet.
This planet is ed.
Some places fracking is safer than others. They've been fracking for 70 years out in west texas. Now some places in Pennsylvania it may be a little iffy but I'm no geologist. Much shallower wells back there. Not all formation depths are the same or production zones. This stuff in Eagle Ford is around 13-14 thousand feet I believe. Well below the aquifer.
All new fields they have to burn off the gas till they get the facilities and pipelines built. My son works up there and he says they're building pipelines all over the place.
No, the planet will do just fine. If we scratch Mother Earth enough, she will smite us. She will do just fine. It is us that is ed if something happens. She will recover.
Sir just take care of yourself and get that shut down. Chesapeake is so effin greedy.
Virtually certain that some aquifer will eventaully be tainted, and there is some indications taht this has already happened.
Fracking is cracking strata that far down allowing gas to percolate *up* through the new fissures created.
Don't thienk the fluids used will mess up aquifers, but the different pockets of various gases will. This is what I think is happenign now in a few places based on reports we do have.
Time will tell, wht the ultimate results of all this will be, but w are rushign headlong into widespread use of this before we have a lot of good data on what exactly happens when you do this on a widespread area.
IF I was drawing water from underground wells, I would sure be testing my water on a monthly basis.
Energy Companies taking advantage of Amish, their religion does not allow for lawsuits:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...tion-lawsuits#
thx symple, i'm a dope.
Last edited by leemajors; 06-11-2013 at 03:34 PM.
Wrong link, dude
how deep are the holes for the waste water?
same depth as the extraction holes?
That's like saying some of the Nazi concentration camps were not as bad as others.
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