Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Fracking fluids aquifers

  • Fluids could move from most any injection process. The research for the study was paid for by Catskill Mountainkeeper and the Park Foundation, two upstate New York organizations that have opposed gas drilling and fracking in the Marcellus.
  • (AlterNet)
  • Some scientists and industry officials have argued that thick layers of impermeable rock would keep fracking fluids used by modern natural gas operations tucked safety away underground, far below aquifers used for residential drinking water.
  • (Charleston Gazette)
  • Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking for short production and hydraulic fracturing fluids, benzene concentrations well above Safe Drinking Water Act standards and high methane levels" in the towns aquifer.
  • (Examiner)
  • Could they go far enough to intersect and contaminate aquifers with fracking fluids or create pathways for methane to contaminate aquifers.
  • (The Guardian)
  • The human and environmental impact is being ignored -- and yes, those very large volumes of fracking fluids left underground will move and are already moving and contaminating aquifers and surface waters.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Badly constructed or damaged wells can allow fracking fluids and methane to escape into potable waters. This occurs when fluids make their way behind the casing and exit the well into aquifers.
  • (Longmont Daily Times-Call)
  • Most of the fluids used for fracking are proprietary If groundwater becomes contamin­ated, it takes years to decades to try to clean up an aquifer system, University of New Brunswick professor Tom Al said.
  • (Wikinews)

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