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Study Finds Fracing Doesn’t Harm Drinking Water in Texas
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:01 am
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:01 am
The Dallas Morning News – What you need to know
The Daily Signal – Fracing doesn’t harm drinking water
The Task Force - The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
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A task force set up by the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas released a 204-page report Monday that found both great economic benefits and areas of concern about the latest drilling boom. Despite the uncertainty, study organizers said they hoped the two-year effort would cut through some of the confusion around fracking and how it impacts Texans and the environment.
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"In an era of alternative facts, this report is bringing together much or most of the scientific evidence about the actual impacts of shale development," said task force chairwoman Christine Ehlig-Economides, who teaches petroleum engineering at the University of Houston. "There's a lot of misinformation about hydraulic fracturing in particular."
The Daily Signal – Fracing doesn’t harm drinking water
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Hydraulic fracturing hasn’t contaminated groundwater in Texas, isn’t an earthquake hazard, and has been a boon for the state’s economy, according to a study released Monday.
To conduct the three-year study, the academy assembled a panel called the Task Force on the Environmental and Community Impact of Shale.
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“In Texas and pretty much everywhere, hydraulic fracturing has not been proven to have an adverse impact on drinking water,” Christine Ehlig-Economides, a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Houston who is chairwoman of the task force, told The Daily Signal.
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The study also explored the impact of fracking in five other areas: geology and earthquake activity; land resources; air quality; the economy; and society. It found generally positive results for each.
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However, in a sixth category, transportation, the report found that fracking produced a surge of trucks, damaging pavement at an estimated cost to state taxpayers of $1.5 billion to $2 billion per year.
Even so, the study concluded that fracking adds $473 billion to the Texas economy and created 3.8 million jobs
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Last year, the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency completed a five-year study that didn’t find evidence of widespread contamination as a result of fracking. The EPA said fracking can affect drinking water “under some circumstances,” but didn’t cite any confirmed instances and determined there were too many uncertainties about existing data of contamination
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A University of Texas study found methane levels from well water in two Texas counties, Parker and Hood, weren’t the result of North Texas’s Barnett Shale, after a sample of 479 wells in those counties.
The Task Force - The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:04 am to DaBike
Well no sh&t. hydrocarbon wells are often miles deeper than freshwater aquifers. The two do not co-mingle except in the case of a driller allowing drilling fluid, fracking chemicals, or hydrocarbons to leak at the surface and pollute streams and rivers. In order for that to happen, the driller has to be doing multiple things wrong and breaking several laws in doing so.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:05 am to DaBike
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FRACKING MOTHEREARTH MINORITIES CHILDREN
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FRACKING MOTHEREARTH MINORITIES CHILDREN
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Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:05 am to DaBike
I'm all for fracing but those derricks are monstrous and an eye sore. There's one near where I live that is just not pleasant to look at.
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 10:53 am
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:08 am to DaBike
But... but...Russia
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 10:08 am
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:23 am to DaBike
I've heard that the land can "never" be developed around the wells even when their spent. Is that true?
If so, that's a win for environmentalists. Win-Win.
If so, that's a win for environmentalists. Win-Win.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:29 am to DaBike
We know that Saudi Arabia was funding the lefty "scientists" saying that fracking was bad, why do people still believe this crap
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:34 am to DaBike
Who is going to need water when you can't live there due to the earthquakes?
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:40 am to DaBike
The report is a good start. The earthquake activity is concerning when you consider how stable Texas is compared to just about anywhere.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:41 am to DaBike
Yea the only people that believe Fracking harms drinking water are people that literally know nothing about the oil and gas industry. These people should be forced to take a freshman level PETE introduction class so that they can learn something.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:47 am to DaBike
I thought it was interesting back in 2014 when Rex Tillerson signed a petition to stop the construction of a water tower to be used by fracing companies near his home northeast of Denton because....
Also signing the petition was DICK Armey.
Take that nasty fracing away from my wealthy estate.
Also signing the petition was DICK Armey.
Take that nasty fracing away from my wealthy estate.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:50 am to DaBike
I'm not against fracking but IIRC you have to have your groundwater tested before fracking begins so you will have a baseline to compare it to after fracking starts. In the vast majority of the situations, this was never done so it couldn't be proved that fracking was the cause of any issues that may have arisen concerning groundwater. These instances were the groundwater was tainted were pretty rare though. However, in those rare instances, it was usually alleged that is was casings or spills that were the issue. Without a baseline, though, the residents were fricked. Let's not be naive and think that oil and gas didn't frick some people over with their army of attorneys. That being said, the spotlight being on the industry seems to have focused the industry on doing things right and not cutting corners. On the whole it is currently said to be exceptionally safe. I say drill baby drill...just keep going about it in the right manner.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 10:52 am to DaBike
You posted all of that and you misspell a fracking in your subject title...
Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:07 am to DaBike
is fracing the new cheesing?
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