No Fracking Way!

[Omaha 680]

lol. Nice try, Robin. Unfortunately, the EPA is nothing like the calm, methodical, defenders of the environment you'd like to portray them as. Sometimes life imitates the onion, and every once in a while, well, it imitates Ghostbusters.

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I think of this Ghostbusters quote often in my line of work.

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[KillerDog]

My friend who was driving in North Dakota quit this week and found a local job. They are still drilling but have slowed down on the fracking. Apparently they don't want to lower the current market.

The spring was definitely a low point for fracs. The oil companies slowed down. It isn't and wasn't clear to me why. That said, they are back going full bore. Continental, Kodiak, Slawson, and Zavanna are all working like crazy through the year, especially Kodiak who is killing it in the Watford City area focusing on some alternative types of work where they have wells intentionally communicating.

[KillerDog]

My friend who was driving in North Dakota quit this week and found a local job. They are still drilling but have slowed down on the fracking. Apparently they don't want to lower the current market.

BTW, if your buddy wants a job in North Dakota driving trucks and has a Class A CDL with a tanker endorsement, I have a job for him.

[Moliere]

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...ng-ban-cameron

Britain is now on the fracking bandwagon

[Jeff Lebowski]

EPA releases draft report on fracking today. Identifies a few risks, but indicates that it is quite safe overall.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/epa-r...g-john-fontana

Funny to see the different articles reporting the document release:

Inside Climate News: "Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water, EPA Now Concludes"
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/05...-now-concludes

vs.

Breitbart: "EPA: FRACKING HASN’T CAUSED ANY WIDESPREAD HARM TO DRINKING WATER"
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...rinking-water/

WSJ: "Fracking Has Had No ‘Widespread’ Impact on Drinking Water, EPA Finds"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/fracking...nds-1433433850

[Uncle Ted]

Stanford sez fracking screwed up the water in Wyo...

Stanford researchers show fracking's impact to drinking water sources


A case study of a small Wyoming town reveals that practices common in the fracking industry may have widespread impacts on drinking water resources.

Only one industry is allowed to inject toxic chemicals into underground sources of drinking water – hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Concerns about this practice have riled the U.S. political landscape and communities around the country, perhaps nowhere more so than in Pavillion, Wyoming, population 231.

A new study by Stanford scientists published in Environmental Science & Technology finds for the first time that fracking operations near Pavillion have had clear impact to underground sources of drinking water. The research paints a picture of unsafe practices including the dumping of drilling and production fluids containing diesel fuel, high chemical concentrations in unlined pits and a lack of adequate cement barriers to protect groundwater.

The well field has gone through several corporate hands since the 1960s, but various fracking operators have used acid and hydraulic fracturing treatments at the same depths as water wells in the area.


"This is a wake-up call," said lead author Dominic DiGiulio, a visiting scholar at Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. "It's perfectly legal to inject stimulation fluids into underground drinking water resources. This may be causing widespread impacts on drinking water resources."


"Decades of activities at Pavillion put people at risk. These are not best practices for most drillers," said co-author Rob Jackson, the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor at the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.


As part of the so-called frackwater they inject into the ground, drilling companies use proprietary blends that can include potentially dangerous chemicals such as benzene and xylene. When the wastewater comes back up after use, it often includes those and a range of potentially dangerous natural chemicals.
[...]

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2016/m...er-032916.html

I doubt that a little benzene and xylene has hurt anyone but maybe this explains why the water in west Texas tastes like sh*t.

[falafel]

Largest ever oil reserve discovered in Texas shale formation. Estimated at 20 billion barrels.

The Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin province contains an estimated mean of 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, according to an assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. This estimate is for continuous (unconventional) oil, and consists of undiscovered, technically recoverable resources.

The estimate of continuous oil in the Midland Basin Wolfcamp shale assessment is nearly three times larger than that of the 2013 USGS Bakken-Three Forks resource assessment, making this the largest estimated continuous oil accumulation that USGS has assessed in the United States to date.

[Moliere]

Largest ever oil reserve discovered in Texas shale formation. Estimated at 20 billion barrels.

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[SeattleUte]

Largest ever oil reserve discovered in Texas shale formation. Estimated at 20 billion barrels.

link?

[falafel]

link?

https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-estim...hale-formation

[Topper]

https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-estim...hale-formation

Hooray!