Wanted to know a bit about this term, and I found this article when perusing the Colorado Floods. My eyeballs are blinking wildly in realizing that this earth is in for a huge era of discontent, to say nothing of the poisonous explosions.
Question from Matt:
"Need some info on this FRACKING as they want to start it here around my district and I’m not happy about it"
REPLY from Henrietta:
"September 18, 2013 at 12:34 am
Dear Matt, Just to give you an overview:
Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and a well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals–many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings of any kind). All this is forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline which soon exploits with the force of a pipebomb. The inside of all that pipeline is soon thick coated with radioactive radium as a result of 60% of that toxic brew flowing back upwards and exiting as gas waste “brine.”(the first liquid out is called “Flowback” which is still extremely toxic and now contains radioactive radium 226. The liquids produced thereafter are called “Produced waste.” 40% of the hazardous waste remains underground going into aquifers, cracks, sideways, upwards, etc, etc. There is no way to trace what happens to it. Most of the first extremely toxic “Flowback” is stored in plastic-lined pits nearby–where it becomes susceptible to floods. The later “Produced Brine” which still contains toxic chemicals and radioactive material is being used to melt snow and settle dust along the roads of Pennsylvania and in the Southern Tier of upstate New York. Each frack will require at least 1000 desiel truck trips to and from the site. This list is a year’s life for only one well on one pad. Each pad can hold 8 wells in New York State or up to 3 times that in Texas. Each well is capable of many frackings. Fracking has been removed from the protective environmental laws set up to protect our nation- namely: the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Safe Air Act – including the many regulations both these laws encompass. This blocking of laws and regulations also blocks our EPA, DEC’s and DEP’s from regulating what goes on at Fracking sites. Gas companies then become the foxes guarding the hen houses. This blocking of laws and regulations also makes it impossible for individuals or families to sue any gas company who destroys their water, land and air under any circumstance. Just Google Hydrofracking and you’ll see much, much more than this little paragraph. Thanks for asking."
Recent Colorado flooding brings on pictures and information about damaged O&G Wells, effects?
http://www.texassharon.com/2013/09/16/shocking-photos-and-an-update-from-the-colorado-fracking-flood-zone/
2013 Information and Availability!
10 years ago
