Operators like to say the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing and drilling are “negligible” amounts. Here are some pictures of chemicals at drill sites. What do you think? Does this look negligible to you?
The first 3 pictures are courtesy of Credit Clark Resource Council and were taken at Windsor Energy Group, LLC, Bennett Creek Prospect Well Pad on Line Creek Clark, Wyoming
This next group were taken at a Wise County Devon Energy site about a week ago.
This last group was also taken in Wise County at a Braden Energy well site.
I’ve got LOTS more!
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"negligible" amounts my A**. It donesn't take much of this stuff to make you sick and especially continual leaching into our aquifer and surface water–for years!
Can you imagine giving your child a glass of water to drink and saying," That's OK, honey, Mommy only put one little drop of arsenic in, so it's OK". Ridiculous! I don't think even the gas drillers would do that.
Sodium hydroxide (NaOH), also known as lye and caustic soda, is a caustic metallic base. It is used in many industries, mostly as a strong chemical base in the manufacture of pulp and paper, textiles, drinking water, soaps and detergents and as a drain cleaner. Worldwide production in 1998 was around 45 million tonnes. Sodium hydroxide is a common base in chemical laboratories.
You may already have some of the chemicals present in your house. Caustic Soda or Lye has been around for years… but the oven cleaner label was a nice touch.
Sure, caustic soda is in many things we use but it's very dangerous. Ever drink Drano? Drano is caustic soda and it'll kill you if you drink it.
Also, a can of Drano in the kitchen cabinet can't quite compare to pallets and pallets full of caustic soda at drilling site after drilling site after drilling site. We have over 3000 wells in Wise County. That's a lot of caustic soda.
DRILL RIGHT IN TEXAS
I live in Delray Beach, FL. We’ve recently been hearing a very loud noise which persists for several hours at a time. It sounds like a train coming down the tracks. Several calls have been made to the sheriff’s department and we have been told that they are releasing natural gas into the atmosphere … the sound goes on for hours. The sheriff says there is nothing they can do and the gas release is perfectly harmless. Is this true?
You need to find out where the release is coming from. First, natural gas is methane, the most powerful green house gas. Methane is a surrogate gas that brings with it many impurities and toxic compounds from the formation.