I wouldn't be too happy to live downstream: Water, chemicals, and sand are injected through the pipe into the surrounding shale, fracturing it.
If it's strong enough to fracture shale, what would it do to your body?
I believe it’s the high pressure at which the liquid is pumped into the shale that causes the fracture.
Your post is illustrative of the ignorance on this issue that plays right into the environmentalists' hands.
Nobody wants to live downwind of a refinery: but if you want gasoline, somebody's got to do so.
Nobody wants to live downwind of a slaughterhouse.
Nobody wants to live downwind of a pulp mill.
But most of us like eating meat and reading / writing on paper.
At 5,000-9,000 feet you won’t have to worry about it. I would think water wells rarely get this deep, if ever.
They probably use high pressure, high temperature DiHYdrogen Monoxide. A VERY corrosive substance that is used in EVERY SINGLE nuclear plant in the country. Sadly, it is also in the drinking water of EVERY school in America. What should we do?
“If it’s strong enough to fracture shale, what would it do to your body? “
They are not doing anything to your body, they are doing it to rock 1 mile below the surface. And btw it is mainly water, CO2, and sand ... stuff that is already on the surface. Neither you nor your surface property are impacted.
Nothing. Because it's basically nothing more than plain old clay. And it's not injected into your body under extremely high pressures like it is into the reservoir rocks. It's carefully recycled because its expensive.
The water contamination fear is bunk, because the fracture zones are very deep, and the well is carefully cased so as to not lose the product (natural gas).
This process has been used extensively all over the US and there really hasn't been any contamination to speak of. That's why they are so careful to use vague scares. If they had ANY data, they'd be screaming it from the rooftops, you can be sure.