Insert feigned shock.
Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking
It’s a peer-reviewed study from Duke.
Here’s my favorite part:
They also found that the type of gas detected at high levels in the water was the same type of gas that energy companies were extracting from thousands of feet underground, strongly implying that the gas may be seeping underground through natural or manmade faults and fractures, or coming from cracks in the well structure itself.
FIRST TIME EVER!!! Oh wait…
EPA used “isotopic fingerprint analysis” to determine that the gas in the water wells matched the gas from Range Resources gas well.
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I hope the gas companies are ready to open their wallets, there are more and more retiring engineers who are going to spill the beans on all of the defective production casings. The industry often passes this off that gas cannot travel between thousands of feet of rock. Which is true, unless a nice human has put a tube from 9000 feet down up to the water table. Couple that with a damaged production casing and you have the perfect storm for gas to travel up the well bore and out the damaged production casing into the aquifers.
NBC Channel 5 sucks on reporting anything against big oil and gas. Why is that? They reported none of the chemicals found in the water were used in the fracking process. I have yet to see anything from this station that is negative about natural gas, and they next to never report on the dfw area that is being affected.
Anonymous 8:40 PM
What?
"The industry often passes this off that gas cannot travel between thousands of feet of rock. Which is true…"
BALONEY! Who says? No one knows everything that is happening in the deep strata. There are many natural fractures and other pathways for migration–just ask a geologists who is not "captured" by the Big Gas Mafia. Industry has admitted they do not have control over their fracking and they cannot predict how far a fracture might travel.
Casings are a problem but they are not the only problem.
That's probably why WFAA always beats them in ratings.
For the first time in my history of researching Big Gas I am actually afraid.
Sharon, it would be my delight if we could do a post of the email I sent you the other day through abcalliance.
What I found was an 8 minute video of steel wool in hydrochloric acid solution of 32%, in which the steel wool nearly decomposes.
I found proof that hydrochloric acid eats cement.
That Hydrogen Sulfide combined with hydrochloric acid increases the corrosive abilities of hydrochloric acid.
A conversation between casing geeks that emits to the corrosive properties of casing.
I have to go back and review my research, some how the glycols they use are related to the corrosive abilities as well.
I found that the metal casing often perforates at the curve while being put in place.
I found that frequently the companies have to purchase foreign made casing where there is some concern that the standard of casing is not being met. Probably similar to Chinese Dry Wall.
I have lost sleep over this.
The part that concerns me the most, other than we are putting corrosive chemicals down piping and casing that do NOT withstand those chemicals. These chemicals spend the most time at the top of the casing during the process, near our water table while the frac goes in and the flowback comes out.
Then, we are doing it over and over and over again.
I also found some data that suggest the piping and casing do not withstand much pressure. However, Mr XTO said 5000 psi at the top and 8000 psi lower, and the casing is made to hold 10000 psi.
So I believe, the piping and casing are not able to withstand the continual pressure that is associated with frac'ing coupled with the instability caused my caustic, corrosive chemicals LEAD TO DISASTER.
-FrackingCrazy
When I was interviewing for a job to work with a lawyer who sues gas companies using esoteric land law he admitted to this:
That while pumping water and chemicals at high pressure deep underground there are plenty of cases where the fluids meet too great a force of resistance. When this happens the chemcials and water seek the path of least resistance which often times is up rather than down. Which disproves the industries tired "gravity defense" that no contamination can occur because the fracking is well underneath the water table.
So yes the best chance for water contamination is due to faulty casing ,but it can also happen randomly when fluids at high pressure fail to break certain geological formations.