I’ve been doing research on fracking. I’m completely in support of drilling for our own oil and gas, however, there are some issues with fracking that no one is talking about (except the fruit loop environmentalists.)
The problem with fracking is that there is a chance that the chemicals they use in the slurry (which the drillers do not disclose) can contaminate the aquifers. What happens when you lease your land to the drillers and your water supply gets contaminated. Your land is now useless and no one compensates you for the loss. Not the corporation, not the government.
Cuomo just flipped his position on fracking to support it. Now when a leftist pig like him supports this, I am very suspect of his motives. Sounds like a good payoff was begotten.
:: The problem with fracking is that there is a chance that the chemicals they use in the slurry (which the drillers do not disclose) can contaminate the aquifers ::
There is also a chance that if global temperatures rise too much that all the arctic ice will melt and the cute, cuddly polar bears will all drown.
Use care in your due diligence...
You need to do more research. Learn the depth of the formation and where the depth of your aquifer is. There is thousands of feet of rock in between.
Fracturing is done within the shale. It does not pierce the cap rock formation or the many other layers of rock between the aquifer and the gas formation.
If gas operators were breaking through the cap rock and other formations, they would be loosing the gas out of the reservoir field. This is not what is going on.
Look here for some information:
http://www.halliburton.com/public/projects/pubsdata/hydraulic_fracturing/fracturing_101.html#
The only contamination has come from surface spills. And both NY and PA have tightened their regulation of fracking.
The enviros hate shale gas because it is a barrier to their dream of using high energy costs to drive Americans out of suburbs and back into the cities. So they have made up anti-fracking lies and propaganda wholesale.
Haliburton decided to use things from the FDA’s GRAS (generally accepted as safe) list - like vinegar - for their fracking. In PA, the companies are required to disclose what they are using for fracking. And sand - - sand is a chemical you are worried about????
The sand is needed to prop open the tiny cracks created by
fracking. The vinegar or other acid is needed to keep the calcium or lime in the water from clogging up the tiny openings.
Folks near well drilling operations need to test their wells prior to any drilling. The test needed costs about $300 and will give baseline readings for various natural substances in your water. A cheap test for total dissolved solids and e coli won’t cut it.
If you have baseline tests or live withing 1,000 feet of a well, any post drilling water issues will be fixed by the drilling company under PA law currently.
First off...the oil/gas is trapped in a SHALE which is basically impermeable.
2. The shale layer is down several miles deep....
3. Most of the "chemicals" (water, sand, lubricants, glass beads etc) are pumped out and recycled.
So the chances of surface contamination are zero.