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- Acidizing could rival fracking in Monterey Shale
San Francisco Chronicle news article.
- Article from the times
To Frack or Not to Frack in Illinois
New legislation that will regulate fracking in the state has divided environmentalists. BY Marla Donato and students of DePaul University
- British Minister Says Fracking is safe
British Minister Says Fracking is safe
- California Plans Tighter Control of Fracking, But Not Enough for Some
California drillers eager to use hydraulic fracturing to tap the nation’s largest oil shale formation will face comprehensive regulation for the first time next year under rules issued this week.
The rules take effect on Jan. 1, though they will be replaced a year later by permanent regulations that are still being developed but are expected to be similar. In September, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that established the outlines for the regulations.
- Drinking Water Should Not be Flammable!
YOUTUBE VIDEO: What the Actual Frack from Caitlin Davis on Vimeo.
- EPA Acknowledges Pavillion Study Deficiencies
API Group Director of Upstream and Industry Operations Erik Milito welcomed recently announcement from the EPA that said flawed water testing results from Pavillion, Wyo., would not be part of its hydraulic fracturing review.
“America needs to know EPA is employing appropriate scientific methods for its water quality testing,” said Milito. “EPA has to do a better job because another fatally flawed water study could have a big impact on how the nation develops its massive energy resources.”
- EPA official links fracking and drinking water issues in Dimock, Pa
Drilling for natural gas caused “significant damage” to drinking-water aquifers in a Pennsylvania town at the center of a fight over the safety of hydraulic fracturing, according to a report prepared by a federal official
- EPA Report on Hydrofracturing
At the request of Congress, EPA is conducting a study to better understand any potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water and ground water. The scope of the research includes the full lifespan of water in hydraulic fracturing.
- Food and Water Watch: Dallas Fracking Ordinance a Huge Step Forward in Oil Country
Dallas City Council decided to enact restrictions on oil and gas drilling in Dallas. Thanks FracDallas and other community organizations commitment to protecting their community from the environmental and public health effects of drilling and fracking, the activity has now been blocked from taking place within 1,500 feet of a home, business or church. This is an example of the importance of keeping shared resources under public control
- FracFocus
The GWPC also helped to establish the FracFocus website. More than 200 energy-producing companies have registered over 15,000 well sites through FracFocus. This success is the result of nationally recognized organizations working with the oil and natural gas industry to provide public transparency. Learn more and see highlights from the first year of FracFocus. see: http://fracfocus.org/
- Fracking boom pushes US oil output to 25-year high
U.S. crude production rose to the highest level in a quarter-century as a shale drilling boom in states such as Texas and North Dakota cut the need for foreign oil and pushed the country closer to energy independence. U.S. oil production grew 18 percent in the past 12 months, the fastest pace on record, boosting fuel exports and reducing reliance on imports, according to the EIA. Imported crude and petroleum products will dip to 28 percent of domestic demand next year, the lowest since 1985 and down from a peak of 60 percent in 2005.
- Fracking companies claim South Wales holds six times UK's annual gas consumption
Fracking companies believe drilling for shale gas in South Wales could provide amount to six times the UK’s entire 2011 consumption. Supporters of “fracking” have pointed to dramatic reductions to energy bills and the wholesale price of gas in the US but have said the procedure can lead to environmental damage contamination of water supplies and earthquakes. There are opinions that the shale gas opportunity will keep prices stable or prevent upward movement. of prices, in a substantial scenario.”
- Fracking does not pose risks
Fracking 'does not pose risk to water supplies': Scientists find contamination in highly-publicised cases was from leaky drilling wells
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2758734/Fracking-does-not-pose-risk-water-supplies-Scientists-contamination-highly-publicised-cases-leaky-drilling-wells.html#ixzz3Dg5fv6RY
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- Fracking goes global
Despite environmental concerns, the technology that revolutionized the energy industry is spreading all over the world.
- Fracking is coming to Illinois
Fracking is coming to Illinois.
The state, which has sat on the sidelines as new technologies using high-pressure fracturing techniques to extract natural gas have launched energy booms in long-dormant states, could see a boomlet of its own in coming months.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120405/NEWS11/120409887/fracking-comes-to-illinois-for-better-or-worse#ixzz2CK7RxV6z
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- Fracking Issue Is Personal For Rep. Jared Polis
BERTHOUD, Colo. (CBS4) – Rep. Jared Polis says he won’t stop trying to get oil and gas drilling out of his neighborhood. The congressman has been active in the fracking debate in Colorado for years and has even sponsored several bills to regulate it.
Polis has vowed to keep fighting after a judge said he wouldn’t stop drilling near land he owns. He says this is a different kind of battle for him
- 'Fracking' Wastewater That Is Treated For Drinking Produces Potentially Harmful Compounds
Was found that discharge of fracking wastewaters to rivers, even after passage through wastewater treatment plants, could be putting the drinking water supplies of downstream cities at risk due to is highly radioactivity and content of high levels of heavy metals and salts called halides. Halide-contaminated surface water subsequently treated for drinking purposes with conventional methods, such as chlorination or ozonation, could lead to the formation of toxic byproducts even at concentrations as low as 0.01 percent up to 0.1 percent by volume of fracking wastewater. The researchers recommend either that fracking wastewater should not be discharged at all into surface waters.
- Fracking water licence process angers B.C. First Nation
A First Nation in northeastern B.C. is demanding the provincial government take more precautions before awarding water licences to companies for natural gas fracking.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a controversial practice that involves injecting water deep into the earth to extract shale gas. In order to break the rock and free the gas trapped inside of it, companies inject a combination of water, sand and chemicals underground at high pressure.
- Fracking: Is exploration a danger to earth or much-needed boost to energy
Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, has split public opinion and led to protests in England. So what is it? Explore CNN's interactive to find out.
- Fracking: The Good, The Bad, And The Possibilities
If we're going to keep fracking, there are ways that we can make it safer, cleaner, and waste vastly less water.
- Has Fracking Gone Green?
From The Editor | June 6, 2014
Has Fracking Gone ‘Green'?
By Kevin Westerling
@KevinOnWater
CSGDrillrig
There are few topics more controversial these days than hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"). While the debate rages on as to whether fracking poses a risk to water quality, a new desalination technique addresses two other environmental concerns: water scarcity and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), the breakthrough technology uses excess carbon dioxide created in the fracking process to desalinate the process water, making it available for water reuse.
- Hydraulic fracturing - is it Safe?
Less than a decade ago, natural gas prices in the United States were among the highest in the world. However, in the last five years, domestic natural gas reserves have grown 30 percent due to technological advances in the use of hydraulic fracturing,[1] a drilling method that is coupled with directional drilling to access underground reservoirs of oil and gas. This technological breakthrough had an immediate impact on natural gas prices, causing them to plummet and remain low to the present time.
- Hydraulic fracturing proposal draws
LANSING, Mich. -- A proposal to drill as many as 500 wells in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula by using hydraulic fracturing is attracting attention and criticism from environmentalists.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/29/3528745/hydraulic-fracturing-proposal.html#storylink=cpy
- Hydraulic Fracturing: Beyond Name Calling to Real Environmental Protection (a four-part series)
Hydraulic Fracturing: Beyond Name Calling to Real Environmental Protection (a four-part series)
Part 1-Knowing Your Watershed and Assessing Potential Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts
This event was originally broadcast on January 15, 2013 and is now available for on-demand viewing.
- Illinois' new law regulating horizontal hydraulic fracturing
Illinois' new law regulating horizontal hydraulic fracturing doesn't kick in until 80,000 gallons of fluid is injected into underground rock formations to extract oil and gas.
- In Germany, Chicago energy experts find lessons for Midwest
Chicago energy experts who spent a week in Germany and Brussels in mid-November on a fact-finding expedition came back with a complicated take on Germany’s famous Energiewende, the sweeping transition to clean and renewable energy.
- In Mississippi, a power plant is designed to shape the future of coal
A $5-billion power plant is being constructed at the mouth of a mine for lignite coal in rural Kemper County, Miss. If successful, up to 65% of the plant's potential carbon dioxide emissions would be removed.
- Judge Rules Administration Overlooked fracking Risks in California mineral leases
A federal judge has ruled the Obama administration broke the law when it issued oil leases in central California without fully weighing the environmental impact of "fracking," a setback for companies seeking to exploit the region's enormous energy resources.
- Make sure fracking is done right
Make sure fracking is done right
- Measuring the Safety of Shale Gas Drilling
YOUTUBE VIDEO: Melinda Chapman and Sharon Fitzgerald discuss the U.S. Geological Survey groundwater sampling program to characterize water-suppy well water quality in the area of North Carolina with potential for shale gas production. The sampling program is designed to provide a pre-devolpment baseline that can be compared with well-water quality after shale gas development has occurred to assess any impacts on water quality.
- Michigan Proposes Fracking Rules to Protect Water
Concerns about the potential environmental effects of fracking have spurred new regulations in Michigan.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality proposed new regulations this month that would slap reporting and monitoring requirements on drilling companies, affecting how oil and gas companies approach water issues
- New Guidance to Protect America's Water....
A group of water experts has released new guidance for U.S. resource managers to expand the availability of clean water through the conservation and restoration of forests and other natural infrastructure. The publication, Natural Infrastructure: Investing in Forested Landscapes for Source Water Protection in the United States, builds on several innovative efforts across the United States and provides real world examples where water managers are saving money by investing in natural infrastructure.
- North Dakota's Salty Fracked Wells Drink More Water to Keep Oil Flowing
It's well known that water has been key to the shale oil and gas rush in the United States. But in one center of the hydraulic fracturing boom—North Dakota—authorities are finding that the initial blast of water to frack the wells is only the beginning.
The wells being drilled into the prairie to tap into the Bakken shale need "maintenance water"—lots of it—to keep the oil flowing. (See related photos: "Bakken Shale Boom Transforms North Dakota.")
- Oil And Gas Companies Look To Recycle Fracking Water
A growing number of oil and gas companies are sold on the idea of recycling wastewater.
- PA Boom City Keeps Optimism as Gas Drilling Slows
The Marcellus Shale industry, which arrived in this northern Pennsylvania city five years ago and turned Williamsport into the seventh-fastest-growing area in the nation, appears to have lost some momentum.
Economic activity in this city affectionately known as "Billtown" has subsided noticeably in the last year as the pace of drilling natural gas wells slowed in response to low gas prices.
Statewide, exploration companies drilled 30 percent fewer wells in 2012 and are on course to drill even fewer this year. About half as many drilling rigs are operating in Pennsylvania now as in early 2012, when the rigs began moving to more lucrative oil-producing regions.
- Permission for wastewater to be moved on rivers debated Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/business/2013/12/15/River-routes/stories/201312150077#ixzz2oPcRVLFS
The U.S. Coast Guard is mulling over hundreds of comments on whether to permit water from fractured wells to be moved on the rivers but proponents and opponents, remain sharply divided over how much of a threat that would pose to the environment, the nation's water supply and workers. Wastewater can either be reused, treated or stored underground by injecting it into wells. Drillers currently move it by truck and rail. Proponents of moving it on the river say barge operators have a better safety and environmental record than truck or rail operators. Opponents, meanwhile, want a more complete study.
- Press ahead with fracking - Deben
Lord Deben said that exploiting Britain's reserves of shale gas could provide a secure source of energy for decades without wrecking the environment. He said that "I'm in favour of it. "It just isn't true that fracking is going to destroy the environment and the world is going to come to an end if you frack”.He believes that there will be a need for gas (and) much better to have it from theirself.
- Record of pre-exploitation gas levels in the groundwater
The report, commissioned by the Strategic Environmental Assessment Committee on Shale Gas, provides a benchmark for naturally occurring levels of pollution. This will help scientists prove definitively whether fracking causes groundwater pollution by establishing the concentrations of methane, ethane, propane, helium and radon found in the groundwater in a location where fracking has yet to occur.
- SB 3280, standards for extraction from shale.
On Thursday, April 26, 2012, the Illinois State Senate unanimously passed a bill, SB 3280,setting standards for the extraction of hydrocarbons from shale using hydraulic fracturing, known as “fracking,” in Illinois. Fracking uses a mixture of water, sand and chemicals to reach underground gas reserves. Drilling activity is expected to occur in southern Illinois near the New Albany Shale formation. SB 3280 has been described as a compromise between the various stakeholders, including industry, landowners and environmental groups.
- Study Finds Radioactive Fracking Water In Stream
Now there's even more information for fracking proponents and environmentalists to disagree on.
For a quick reminder, fracking (or hydraulic fracturing) is the process of withdrawing natural gas from shale rock layers within the earth. It is of particular interest to the water sector because of its byproducts. "The shale is hydraulically fractured with water and other fracking fluids," according to the pro-fracking site Energy From Shale. That means wastewater is leftover at the end. Currently, there is an energetic debate about the dangers of that water and how to clean it.
- Tech From MIT May Clean Up Fracking Wastewater
Gradiant Corporation of Massachusetts is testing the possibility of a new technology called GRADIANT to treat frac water. During the process a) the water is pretreated to remove oil and grease and solid particles b) heats the saline water c) sprays it into a porous saturating air with water vapor d) water-saturated air is then pumped up through tiny holes in a series of shallow, water-filled trays,"
"As bubbles pass through the water in the trays, the water vapor in the bubbles condenses and joins the water it is passing through, creating more fresh water.
- The Science Is Settled: Fracking Is Safe
The article exhibits the safety of hydraulic fracturing based on a new study. A research relating the link between groundwater pollution and fracking was conducted. Between 130 wells examined, only seven wells in Pennsylvania and one in Texas was to blame for the seepage of gases into groundwater due to faulty well construction or cementing. The fracked well sites were subjected to a newly developed process in order to determine whether pollution in proximity to a drilling site is naturally occurring or associated with drilling and whether the release of gases resulted from fracking itself or from seepage around well casings. The new report proves beyond doubt that fracking itself does not cause gas to seep into the water supply
- Tilting at Gas Wells: What's the Best Way to Defend Your Community from Fracking?
What kind of community fracking bans make sense?
Federal and state governments largely have embraced the oil-and-gas boom sparked by hydraulic fracturing. Fracking is a key part of Obama's "all of the above" energy strategy. States such as Texas have long touted its economic benefits, while the candidates for governor in Pennsylvania have moved the debate past the question of whether to frack to the question of how to make the most money from it.
- Tracking Fracking Reporting
The report, commissioned by the Strategic Environmental Assessment Committee on Shale Gas, provides a benchmark for naturally occurring levels of pollution. This will help scientists prove definitively whether fracking causes groundwater pollution by establishing the concentrations of methane, ethane, propane, helium and radon found in the groundwater in a location where fracking has yet to occur. 14% of the wells exhibited concentrations of methane greater than seven milligrams per litre and elevated concentrations of helium. In several cases in the US where very high concentrations of methane were found in the vicinity of fracking sites, energy companies could not be held legally responsible for the contamination simply because there was no record of pre-exploitation gas levels in the groundwater.
- US Land to achieve record frac stage counts in 2013
HOUSTON, Nov. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its latest PumpingIQ hydraulic fracturing report, PacWest Consulting Partners forecasts that the US Land market will complete a record number of hydraulic fracturing stages in 2013. Despite lower US rig counts, increasing frac efficiencies and a higher number of horizontal wells are driving the growth in total frac stages. PacWest does not expect improvements in market pricing for frac services until 2015.
- What the Frac?
Myth 1. Fracking is a drilling technique and monitored with an electric evaluation log used to help decide if and how a well should be fracked.
Myth 2. Fracking is new. Fracking is nothing new; in 1947, the oil and gas industry discovered the method as a way of improving production in the country's oil wells.
Myth 3. Fracking is explosive.
Hydraulic fracturing replaced shooting because it is safer and far more effective
Myth 4. causes earthquakes. 1.3 million earthquakes were registered Between 1900 and 1999. Fracking begun at 1947
Myth 5: Fracking contaminates groundwater. If it contaminates drinking water, it would have done so long before now.
- XTO Energy Settlement
(Washington, DC - July 18, 2013) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement with XTO Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, to resolve an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) related to the discharge of wastewater from XTO’s Penn Township, Pa. facility used for the storage of wastewater generated by natural gas exploration, commonly known as fracking, and production.
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