Posted on 09/12/2014 10:13:03 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Fracking for oil and natural gas—or having enough water to drink.
That's the possible dilemma facing a number of countries including the United States, according to a new report released by the World Resources Institute last week—though experts disagree on the real implications of the report and what should be done about it.
Forty percent of countries with shale-rich deposits—the types where hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is used to extract natural gas and oil—face water scarcity in and around the shale deposits, according to the WRI report.
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Yeah, it is really bad when jobs and prosperity come to a sleepy little town.
Fracking causes well contaminate is just a red herring. The real argument is about whether humans should be allowed to exist via exploitation of natural resources.
1. If fracking were to entirely cease today there would be no additional freshwater available to these people. The enviros want us to have neither oil/gas or water. California is the perfect example were the enviers are driving people out by drying the state up by creating an artificial scarcity of water.
2. Oil and water are commingled naturally in many areas. In the Akron area I have friends who tell of water naturally contaminated by oil.
the situations is remedied by lowering (i.e. pumping) oil out of the ground. Ditto many areas around the Gulf.
3. Drilling and pumping ground water is just as evil (in the enviro wackos eyes) as drilling and pumping for oil/gas. Both are done to support humans which need to ne scourged from the Earth.
A couple miles from my home. Closer to other family members (different state). No wells yet on the property we have leased but we are hopeful.
Millions of wells have been hydraulicly fractured in this country. Like all industrial processes there are risks and occasional mistakes. But I take it you still want the gasoline for your car and natural gas for electricity and heat?
Was the “water scarcity” around the shale deposits a fact before the evil fracking started? Not a geologist, but isn’t that sort of normal around shale deposits?
If there are chemicals in the waste water, bet the thermal depolymerization folks could fix that, and bring some benefit to the process.
“...so fracking thirsty...”
KYPD
It sounds like you have a “traffic” problem not a “fracking” problem. When we bought this house 30 years ago, it was on a dead end street. Then they built a bridge over the bayou and now we live on a race track.
S*** happens! Great house, great yard, we aren’t moving.
But it is hard to scare other people talking about traffic. Fracking sounds so much more evil.
Good for you!
Or they are contaminated when the fracking water leaks out of a truck or a holding pond. Very rarely is it a direct result of the fracking.
Wouldn’t the cops/sheriff writing a few tickets do something to slow the truckers down?
I wish. We have no local police force. Only State Troopers. The truckers seem to know this.
Very rarely as in never shown to be the case.
Bad cement jobs, yeah that happens. But if the well is hydrofac'd or not, that is still a problem.
hence my joy...
State troopers can write traffic tickets, can’t they? Did you ask them to?
Before you sell a house that you love, the traffic will thin out after the wells are producing (or not producing at all)..
As I stated in previous posts on this thread we had meetings with some State Troopers and they did sit along the roads here and there. Most of the truckers are from out of state and are here for the money while the money is here. Nothing wrong with that. I am just stating what I have experienced as a result of a fracking well about 1 1/2 miles from my house. I am not against fracking or prosperity. Just telling the truth from what I have witnessed. It was very,very bad in June. Lot’s of reckless truckers.
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