Fracking Smoking Gun - Methane Levels In Water Supply

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

My main issue with Frackers:

Why exemptions from CLEAN DRINKING WATER ACT?

Cheap energy for all is more important than clean drinking water for some living in and around the fracking fields.

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I heard a discussion of this on NPR. The takeaway was it's not the actual fracking but leaking issues with the wells, something that can be fixed.

Pete

Sure. When you case a well through bed rock, it must be grouted to the rock. Lots of water wells are not cased correctly and can leak.

The thing that I can't figure out is where the methane is coming from & what is producing it. You would expect to find it near the service, not deep in the rock, gravel, or sand aquifer. Maybe there was something growing in an aquifer that has dried up & is now decaying(?) Maybe an illegally drilled well that has some issue? Even if anything like this the cause, the small amount of gas would be vented out very quickly IMO. I'm sure that all the old/dry wells on record were checked to make sure they weren't leaking septic waste or something into a deep & dry aquifer.
I don't buy the "fingerprint" crap either.
Pretty weird.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by nailer

Cheap energy for all is more important than clean drinking water for some living in and around the fracking fields.

An eye opener.

However We in New York do not believe in only nearness to fields.

Our water comes from far, so we put our Governor under pressure.

[djv8ga]

I wouldn't want fracking around my property. I trust the technology to be safe if done right, but I don't trust people to do anything right anymore.

[piece-itpete]

Sorry - they said the gas wells were leaking, and gas wells are known and so fixing them is ok, that it's not the actual fracking. Fracking itself is not causing the water contamination.

Pete

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Sorry - they said the gas wells were leaking, and gas wells are known and so fixing them is ok, that it's not the actual fracking. Fracking itself is not causing the water contamination.

Pete

The grouting process is probably the same. I wonder how deep the affected water wells are?

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by nailer

Cheap energy for all is more important than clean drinking water for some living in and around the fracking fields.

Tongue in cheek?

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Sorry - they said the gas wells were leaking, and gas wells are known and so fixing them is ok, that it's not the actual fracking. Fracking itself is not causing the water contamination.

Pete

So why not tell us what chemicals you are injecting in the underground; so the
EPA can do a proper appraisal.

[Rajoo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...lic_fracturing

Way too many and not all used at the same time. Possibly the contamination is not directly from the fracking process but from waste water leakage from fracking sites leaching into water table.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

I wouldn't want fracking around my property. I trust the technology to be safe if done right, but I don't trust people to do anything right anymore.

Me neither, and zero trust in them for full disclosure. My well water has spoiled me for most municipal tap water.

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