Confirmed: Fracking responsible for earthquakes in Oklahoma

[Missourian]

Are you going to add something useful to the discussion about fracking causing earthquakes, or are you going to just whine and snivel?

You are the one who has taken this thread off topic, not me. You claimed you knew all about earthquakes, more than others, and had more experience of them. You were taken to task about those claims and used abuse and threats as are response rather than a reasonable response. You can claim things until your head explodes, that does not mean they are truths or that anyone is going to believe you.

Translation: "No. I'm just going to keep posting until I get the last word."

Let her have it Westwall. She can claim things until her head explodes, that does not mean they are truths or that anyone is going to believe her. (see what I did there? )

 

[Derideo_Te]

I suggest that you ask your buddy Westwall to explain how fracking drills through aquifers and then the pipes fail (up to 60% of the time) and contaminate the ground water.

I suggest you take a flying fuck through a rolling donut....the chemicals are FAR under the water table and do NOT and have NOT ever contaminated potable ground water.

Except that we have hard evidence collected by the National Academy of Sciences proving that you are wrong!

 

[Derideo_Te]

look who is calling someone else a twerp lol

I calls them like I see's them. And

Except that they are drilling THROUGH the aquifer used by people and pumping the oil and the waste water THROUGH the aquifer.

How do they do that without contaminating the aquifer?

And they have drill pipe casings that are made of steel that are impermeable. The joints are specially made so that nothing can escape them. You DO understand that don't you? There is no contact with the aquifer after the drill goes through it. The casings are left in place even after the wells are abandoned and they prevent any contact.

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Funny how silly people like you can't seem to understand that. However, failures are rare and fairly easily found. Now care to show the class anything that has never failed. We'll wait.

According to the study there is an up to 60% failure rate.

Finding the failures is not the same thing as fixing them either.

Do people just have to drink toxic water now?

If there were anything with a failure rate of 60% it would be closed down so that "study" lacks credibility. Show us where people are drinking toxic water. Well, water that wasn't toxic before the drilling in the first place.

Study Links Water Contamination To Fracking Operations In Texas And Pennsylvania ThinkProgress

contamination from fracking operations is a major problem in natural gas-heavy parts of the country. Last month, Pennsylvania made 243 cases of contamination of private drinking wells from oil and gas drilling operations public for the first time. West Virginia, too, has linked cases of well water contamination to oil and gas drilling. And this month, researchers at the University of Texas found that levels of arsenic, selenium and strontium were higher than the EPA’s limits in some private wells located within about 1.8 miles of natural gas wells.​

Fracking Waste Linked To City s Toxic Drinking Water Class-Action Suit Alleges

Fast forward to November 2013, when Oklahoma's News 6 uncovered that fracking wastewater also had been discharged at Bokoshe, in quantities of "hundreds of millions of gallons."

Though the Environmental Protection Agency halted disposal of the fracking wastewater in 2009, residents tell the station it has reached their drinking water and negatively impacted their health, enough to warrant a class-action suit over the pollution.​

Confirmed California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater DeSmogBlog

Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater

Update 02/11/15: The problems with California's underground injection control program are far worse than originally reported. It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for “enhanced oil recovery” into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

Original post: After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.

It was revealed yesterday that the California State Water Resources Board has sent a letter to the EPA confirming that at least nine of those sites were in fact dumping wastewater contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants into aquifers protected by state law and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity, reveals that nearly 3 billion gallons of wastewater were illegally injected into central California aquifers and that half of the water samples collected at the 8 water supply wells tested near the injection sites have high levels of dangerous chemicals such as arsenic, a known carcinogen that can also weaken the human immune system, and thallium, a toxin used in rat poison.

Timothy Krantz, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands, says these chemicals could pose a serious risk to public health: “The fact that high concentrations are showing up in multiple water wells close to wastewater injection sites raises major concerns about the health and safety of nearby residents.”​

The full extent of the contamination is not yet known. Regulators at the State Water Resources Board said that as many as 19 other injection wells could have been contaminating protected aquifers, and the Central Valley Water Board has so far only tested 8 of the nearly 100 nearby water wells.

Fracking has been accused of exacerbating California's epic state-wide drought, but the Central Valley region, which has some of the worst air and water pollution in the state, has borne a disproportionate amount of the impacts from oil companies' increasing use of the controversial oil extraction technique.

News of billions of gallons of fracking wastewater contaminating protected aquifers relied on by residents of the Central Valley for drinking water could not have come at a worse time.

 

[BullKurtz]

I calls them like I see's them. And
And they have drill pipe casings that are made of steel that are impermeable. The joints are specially made so that nothing can escape them. You DO understand that don't you? There is no contact with the aquifer after the drill goes through it. The casings are left in place even after the wells are abandoned and they prevent any contact.

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Funny how silly people like you can't seem to understand that. However, failures are rare and fairly easily found. Now care to show the class anything that has never failed. We'll wait.

According to the study there is an up to 60% failure rate.

Finding the failures is not the same thing as fixing them either.

Do people just have to drink toxic water now?

If there were anything with a failure rate of 60% it would be closed down so that "study" lacks credibility. Show us where people are drinking toxic water. Well, water that wasn't toxic before the drilling in the first place.

Study Links Water Contamination To Fracking Operations In Texas And Pennsylvania ThinkProgress

contamination from fracking operations is a major problem in natural gas-heavy parts of the country. Last month, Pennsylvania made 243 cases of contamination of private drinking wells from oil and gas drilling operations public for the first time. West Virginia, too, has linked cases of well water contamination to oil and gas drilling. And this month, researchers at the University of Texas found that levels of arsenic, selenium and strontium were higher than the EPA’s limits in some private wells located within about 1.8 miles of natural gas wells.​

Fracking Waste Linked To City s Toxic Drinking Water Class-Action Suit Alleges

Fast forward to November 2013, when Oklahoma's News 6 uncovered that fracking wastewater also had been discharged at Bokoshe, in quantities of "hundreds of millions of gallons."

Though the Environmental Protection Agency halted disposal of the fracking wastewater in 2009, residents tell the station it has reached their drinking water and negatively impacted their health, enough to warrant a class-action suit over the pollution.​

Confirmed California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater DeSmogBlog

Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater

Update 02/11/15: The problems with California's underground injection control program are far worse than originally reported. It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for “enhanced oil recovery” into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

Original post: After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.

It was revealed yesterday that the California State Water Resources Board has sent a letter to the EPA confirming that at least nine of those sites were in fact dumping wastewater contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants into aquifers protected by state law and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity, reveals that nearly 3 billion gallons of wastewater were illegally injected into central California aquifers and that half of the water samples collected at the 8 water supply wells tested near the injection sites have high levels of dangerous chemicals such as arsenic, a known carcinogen that can also weaken the human immune system, and thallium, a toxin used in rat poison.

Timothy Krantz, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands, says these chemicals could pose a serious risk to public health: “The fact that high concentrations are showing up in multiple water wells close to wastewater injection sites raises major concerns about the health and safety of nearby residents.”​

The full extent of the contamination is not yet known. Regulators at the State Water Resources Board said that as many as 19 other injection wells could have been contaminating protected aquifers, and the Central Valley Water Board has so far only tested 8 of the nearly 100 nearby water wells.

Fracking has been accused of exacerbating California's epic state-wide drought, but the Central Valley region, which has some of the worst air and water pollution in the state, has borne a disproportionate amount of the impacts from oil companies' increasing use of the controversial oil extraction technique.

News of billions of gallons of fracking wastewater contaminating protected aquifers relied on by residents of the Central Valley for drinking water could not have come at a worse time.

"thinkprogress"? "desmogblog"? Linking leftist blogs and hate-sites only proves you're satisfied with being lied to by the solar industry swindlers. You're not only a liar, a turd, and a fake Vet.....you're also a useful idiot for those who line their pockets while you get laughed off a message board defending them.

 

[hipeter924]

It will be more than interesting to see what happens to those watered down chemicals over time. Will they float? Or will they sink? What kind of chemical reaction will transform the magma down below the surface. Will any of these chemicals get ingested by humans thru drinking water and transform the genetics of humans for generations to come? Could the chemicals in the water cause an explosive reaction now or in the future? And if so , if it flows to an underground active volcanic source, what could happen then?
I am unable to turn the Italics off? Why is this?

They will turn into Zombies, and cut production costs for the next Resident Evil film.

 

[westwall]

I calls them like I see's them. And
And they have drill pipe casings that are made of steel that are impermeable. The joints are specially made so that nothing can escape them. You DO understand that don't you? There is no contact with the aquifer after the drill goes through it. The casings are left in place even after the wells are abandoned and they prevent any contact.

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Funny how silly people like you can't seem to understand that. However, failures are rare and fairly easily found. Now care to show the class anything that has never failed. We'll wait.

According to the study there is an up to 60% failure rate.

Finding the failures is not the same thing as fixing them either.

Do people just have to drink toxic water now?

If there were anything with a failure rate of 60% it would be closed down so that "study" lacks credibility. Show us where people are drinking toxic water. Well, water that wasn't toxic before the drilling in the first place.

Study Links Water Contamination To Fracking Operations In Texas And Pennsylvania ThinkProgress

contamination from fracking operations is a major problem in natural gas-heavy parts of the country. Last month, Pennsylvania made 243 cases of contamination of private drinking wells from oil and gas drilling operations public for the first time. West Virginia, too, has linked cases of well water contamination to oil and gas drilling. And this month, researchers at the University of Texas found that levels of arsenic, selenium and strontium were higher than the EPA’s limits in some private wells located within about 1.8 miles of natural gas wells.​

Fracking Waste Linked To City s Toxic Drinking Water Class-Action Suit Alleges

Fast forward to November 2013, when Oklahoma's News 6 uncovered that fracking wastewater also had been discharged at Bokoshe, in quantities of "hundreds of millions of gallons."

Though the Environmental Protection Agency halted disposal of the fracking wastewater in 2009, residents tell the station it has reached their drinking water and negatively impacted their health, enough to warrant a class-action suit over the pollution.​

Confirmed California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater DeSmogBlog

Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater

Update 02/11/15: The problems with California's underground injection control program are far worse than originally reported. It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for “enhanced oil recovery” into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

Original post: After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.

It was revealed yesterday that the California State Water Resources Board has sent a letter to the EPA confirming that at least nine of those sites were in fact dumping wastewater contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants into aquifers protected by state law and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity, reveals that nearly 3 billion gallons of wastewater were illegally injected into central California aquifers and that half of the water samples collected at the 8 water supply wells tested near the injection sites have high levels of dangerous chemicals such as arsenic, a known carcinogen that can also weaken the human immune system, and thallium, a toxin used in rat poison.

Timothy Krantz, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands, says these chemicals could pose a serious risk to public health: “The fact that high concentrations are showing up in multiple water wells close to wastewater injection sites raises major concerns about the health and safety of nearby residents.”​

The full extent of the contamination is not yet known. Regulators at the State Water Resources Board said that as many as 19 other injection wells could have been contaminating protected aquifers, and the Central Valley Water Board has so far only tested 8 of the nearly 100 nearby water wells.

Fracking has been accused of exacerbating California's epic state-wide drought, but the Central Valley region, which has some of the worst air and water pollution in the state, has borne a disproportionate amount of the impacts from oil companies' increasing use of the controversial oil extraction technique.

News of billions of gallons of fracking wastewater contaminating protected aquifers relied on by residents of the Central Valley for drinking water could not have come at a worse time.

The interesting thing about your links is they have no further links to any studies. They are news reports and nothing else. The first report is based on a study that hasn't been released yet. And may never be released for that matter. I couldn't even find a reference to it anywhere.


The Bokoshe reports ARE SURFACE CATCHMENT PONDS. Not casing failures. Basically it's a 20 acre coal ash dump (that's on the surface for those of you unfamiliar with how illegal dumps are created) that they now claim has also been used to dump fracking waste. Which, is pretty ridiculous as if it were an illegal company, which they very well could be, it is cheaper to re-inject into the existing bore holes than transport the crap miles away to a surface dump. It makes no logical sense.

And then we have desmog blogs reports which amazingly enough (well, not really if you have a brain) reference OTHER desmog blog reports but don't actually link to any real hard science. They are merely a circle jerk of unsupported claims.

So, that's the best you can do? A study that has not been released, and may never be released but seems to have been commissioned by an environmental activist law group so they could go forward with a class action lawsuit (which is how they get their funding after all). A report from OK that has no reference at all to a casing failure but does reference a potentially illegal coal ash illegal dump site that they now claim is also being used for frack waste even though it would be stupid for a company to go to that extreme cost to dispose of, but which coat tails nicely with all the anti fracking propaganda being spewed out from the left wing, and then a desmog blog circle jerk.

That about sum up the extent of your efforts?

I would appreciate it if you could find the links to the actual studies. It's OK if they're pay walled. I have university access.

Derideo_Te

 

[Derideo_Te]

Except when they fail!

Study finds flawed well casings not fracking caused tainted water StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds flawed well casings– not fracking– caused tainted water

A new study finds water contamination linked to shale gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Texas was caused in some cases by faulty well casings– not hydraulic fracturing.

The study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 133 water wells with high levels of methane. Researchers found the contamination was either naturally occurring or linked to faulty well construction by gas drillers.

According to recently released data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, various aspects of oil and gas development have contaminated about 240 private water supplies since 2008.​

Fracking well casing failure

Fracking & well casing failure

After analyzing over one hundred water wells in Pennsylvania, they confirmed that thermogenic methane (and not merely natural surface-level biogenic methane) were found in water samples of wells in close proximity to drill sites. While proper well casing design protects groundwater most of the time, the sheer number of new wells drilled far exceeds the capacity of the few inspectors around to ensure that they’re failproof. Or at least meet baseline regulations.

Anthony Ingraffea has matched the Duke study with other data that show a 6-7% well casing failure rate – or “compromised structural integrity” – of wells drilled within the past three years. Over a 30 year period, even industry studies have reported anywhere between a 2-60% failure rate of oil and gas wells, depending on company, location, and age. Why the variance? And what factors lead to well casing failure?

Loss of well integrity is related to these factors:
​

1. 1. Pressure: high casing pressure from fracking operations & lack of a pressure relief system
   2. Age: as wells age, the steel casing is subject to corrosion; likewise, cement linings may shrink, debond, or crack.
   3. Construction or design flaws
   4. Damage during handling or fracking
   5. Rapid development of gas field
   6. Disturbance of young cement due to other drilling occurring on the same pad
   7. Deviated wells
   8. Drilling in shallower high-pressure gas horizons

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Funny how silly people like you can't seem to understand that. However, failures are rare and fairly easily found. Now care to show the class anything that has never failed. We'll wait.

According to the study there is an up to 60% failure rate.

Finding the failures is not the same thing as fixing them either.

Do people just have to drink toxic water now?

If there were anything with a failure rate of 60% it would be closed down so that "study" lacks credibility. Show us where people are drinking toxic water. Well, water that wasn't toxic before the drilling in the first place.

Study Links Water Contamination To Fracking Operations In Texas And Pennsylvania ThinkProgress

contamination from fracking operations is a major problem in natural gas-heavy parts of the country. Last month, Pennsylvania made 243 cases of contamination of private drinking wells from oil and gas drilling operations public for the first time. West Virginia, too, has linked cases of well water contamination to oil and gas drilling. And this month, researchers at the University of Texas found that levels of arsenic, selenium and strontium were higher than the EPA’s limits in some private wells located within about 1.8 miles of natural gas wells.​

Fracking Waste Linked To City s Toxic Drinking Water Class-Action Suit Alleges

Fast forward to November 2013, when Oklahoma's News 6 uncovered that fracking wastewater also had been discharged at Bokoshe, in quantities of "hundreds of millions of gallons."

Though the Environmental Protection Agency halted disposal of the fracking wastewater in 2009, residents tell the station it has reached their drinking water and negatively impacted their health, enough to warrant a class-action suit over the pollution.​

Confirmed California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater DeSmogBlog

Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater

Update 02/11/15: The problems with California's underground injection control program are far worse than originally reported. It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for “enhanced oil recovery” into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

Original post: After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.

It was revealed yesterday that the California State Water Resources Board has sent a letter to the EPA confirming that at least nine of those sites were in fact dumping wastewater contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants into aquifers protected by state law and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity, reveals that nearly 3 billion gallons of wastewater were illegally injected into central California aquifers and that half of the water samples collected at the 8 water supply wells tested near the injection sites have high levels of dangerous chemicals such as arsenic, a known carcinogen that can also weaken the human immune system, and thallium, a toxin used in rat poison.

Timothy Krantz, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands, says these chemicals could pose a serious risk to public health: “The fact that high concentrations are showing up in multiple water wells close to wastewater injection sites raises major concerns about the health and safety of nearby residents.”​

The full extent of the contamination is not yet known. Regulators at the State Water Resources Board said that as many as 19 other injection wells could have been contaminating protected aquifers, and the Central Valley Water Board has so far only tested 8 of the nearly 100 nearby water wells.

Fracking has been accused of exacerbating California's epic state-wide drought, but the Central Valley region, which has some of the worst air and water pollution in the state, has borne a disproportionate amount of the impacts from oil companies' increasing use of the controversial oil extraction technique.

News of billions of gallons of fracking wastewater contaminating protected aquifers relied on by residents of the Central Valley for drinking water could not have come at a worse time.

"thinkprogress"? "desmogblog"? Linking leftist blogs and hate-sites only proves you're satisfied with being lied to by the solar industry swindlers. You're not only a liar, a turd, and a fake Vet.....you're also a useful idiot for those who line their pockets while you get laughed off a message board defending them.

Your predictable meltdown after you failed to refute any of the credible facts provided.

 

[Derideo_Te]

The Bokoshe reports

Read further. It includes failures of fracking pipes causing aquifer pollution.

The NAS study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences;

Environmental Activists Participated
David T. Allen, professor and Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, led the team of scientists conducting the study. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and several natural gas companies teamed to fund the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

 

[westwall]

The Bokoshe reports

Read further. It includes failures of fracking pipes causing aquifer pollution.

The NAS study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences;

Environmental Activists Participated
David T. Allen, professor and Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, led the team of scientists conducting the study. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and several natural gas companies teamed to fund the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Where? I went through the entire complaint, I tracked every link and I see no place where a casing failure is mentioned. Please highlight it for me.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Hey everyone

Walking across the street MIGHT get you killed. so knock it off. fly instead..

What an idiot. I guess if it happened where you live you might be singing a different tune....or not, you're too ignorant to know any better.

Listen up dear. I lived in Alaska for 15 years. the State that has the MOST earthquakes of even California. Went thought a 7.9 earthquake OMG and lived.


YOU?

I live in California, thus I have personal experiences with earthquakes, big and small.

Fracking in California Questions and Concerns

California Fracking Regulations CAFrackFacts

Oil Gas and Fracking in California Clean Water Action

Not that I expect the willfully ignorant and others, like Stephanie, to read and consider the consequences, but most Californians treasure clean water over oil. Seems like a sane choice, which may explain why the Stephanies of the world support the oil and coal industries desire for unfettered rights and oppose interfering regulations in their quest for money,

Yes Stephanie, there is more at stake than a simple earthquake, and as we can see on the news today, some earthquakes are not so simple,

 

[Marxist]

I don't even understand why people bother to support fracking, coal.. We have much better alternatives..

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I don't even understand why people bother to support fracking, coal.. We have much better alternatives..

Yeah, like freezing to death

 

[westwall]

Hey everyone

Walking across the street MIGHT get you killed. so knock it off. fly instead..

What an idiot. I guess if it happened where you live you might be singing a different tune....or not, you're too ignorant to know any better.

Listen up dear. I lived in Alaska for 15 years. the State that has the MOST earthquakes of even California. Went thought a 7.9 earthquake OMG and lived.


YOU?

I live in California, thus I have personal experiences with earthquakes, big and small.

Fracking in California Questions and Concerns

California Fracking Regulations CAFrackFacts

Oil Gas and Fracking in California Clean Water Action

Not that I expect the willfully ignorant and others, like Stephanie, to read and consider the consequences, but most Californians treasure clean water over oil. Seems like a sane choice, which may explain why the Stephanies of the world support the oil and coal industries desire for unfettered rights and oppose interfering regulations in their quest for money,

Yes Stephanie, there is more at stake than a simple earthquake, and as we can see on the news today, some earthquakes are not so simple,

How about you post some links to the effects of MTBE on ground water that the State of California mandated be added to gasoline. We have nearly 60 years of experience with fracking. The EPA, which is no friend to fracking, has a study that stipulates fracking does NONE of the things you people claim it does. The freaking Obama EPA says this!

Time for you to adhere to your advice there buckwheat.

 

[Marxist]

Hey everyone

Walking across the street MIGHT get you killed. so knock it off. fly instead..

What an idiot. I guess if it happened where you live you might be singing a different tune....or not, you're too ignorant to know any better.

Listen up dear. I lived in Alaska for 15 years. the State that has the MOST earthquakes of even California. Went thought a 7.9 earthquake OMG and lived.


YOU?

I live in California, thus I have personal experiences with earthquakes, big and small.

Fracking in California Questions and Concerns

California Fracking Regulations CAFrackFacts

Oil Gas and Fracking in California Clean Water Action

Not that I expect the willfully ignorant and others, like Stephanie, to read and consider the consequences, but most Californians treasure clean water over oil. Seems like a sane choice, which may explain why the Stephanies of the world support the oil and coal industries desire for unfettered rights and oppose interfering regulations in their quest for money,

Yes Stephanie, there is more at stake than a simple earthquake, and as we can see on the news today, some earthquakes are not so simple,

How about you post some links to the effects of MTBE on ground water that the State of California mandated be added to gasoline. We have nearly 60 years of experience with fracking. The EPA, which is no friend to fracking, has a study that stipulates fracking does NONE of the things you people claim it does. The freaking Obama EPA says this!

Time for you to adhere to your advice there buckwheat.

If you want to talk about dishonesty, the quote in your signature is not the Actual quote.. You cut out the last part on purpose.

 

[Marxist]

Hey everyone

Walking across the street MIGHT get you killed. so knock it off. fly instead..

What an idiot. I guess if it happened where you live you might be singing a different tune....or not, you're too ignorant to know any better.

Listen up dear. I lived in Alaska for 15 years. the State that has the MOST earthquakes of even California. Went thought a 7.9 earthquake OMG and lived.


YOU?

I live in California, thus I have personal experiences with earthquakes, big and small.

Fracking in California Questions and Concerns

California Fracking Regulations CAFrackFacts

Oil Gas and Fracking in California Clean Water Action

Not that I expect the willfully ignorant and others, like Stephanie, to read and consider the consequences, but most Californians treasure clean water over oil. Seems like a sane choice, which may explain why the Stephanies of the world support the oil and coal industries desire for unfettered rights and oppose interfering regulations in their quest for money,

Yes Stephanie, there is more at stake than a simple earthquake, and as we can see on the news today, some earthquakes are not so simple,

How about you post some links to the effects of MTBE on ground water that the State of California mandated be added to gasoline. We have nearly 60 years of experience with fracking. The EPA, which is no friend to fracking, has a study that stipulates fracking does NONE of the things you people claim it does. The freaking Obama EPA says this!

Time for you to adhere to your advice there buckwheat.

On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but – which means that we must include all doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This “double ethical bind” we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.
The actual quote.

 

[rcfieldz]

Hey everyone

Walking across the street MIGHT get you killed. so knock it off. fly instead..

What an idiot. I guess if it happened where you live you might be singing a different tune....or not, you're too ignorant to know any better.

Listen up dear. I lived in Alaska for 15 years. the State that has the MOST earthquakes of even California. Went thought a 7.9 earthquake OMG and lived.


YOU?

I live in California, thus I have personal experiences with earthquakes, big and small.

Fracking in California Questions and Concerns

California Fracking Regulations CAFrackFacts

Oil Gas and Fracking in California Clean Water Action

Not that I expect the willfully ignorant and others, like Stephanie, to read and consider the consequences, but most Californians treasure clean water over oil. Seems like a sane choice, which may explain why the Stephanies of the world support the oil and coal industries desire for unfettered rights and oppose interfering regulations in their quest for money,

Yes Stephanie, there is more at stake than a simple earthquake, and as we can see on the news today, some earthquakes are not so simple,

How about you post some links to the effects of MTBE on ground water that the State of California mandated be added to gasoline. We have nearly 60 years of experience with fracking. The EPA, which is no friend to fracking, has a study that stipulates fracking does NONE of the things you people claim it does. The freaking Obama EPA says this!

Time for you to adhere to your advice there buckwheat.

If you want to talk about dishonesty, the quote in your signature is not the Actual quote.. You cut out the last part on purpose.

It's called selective editing. Welcome to 1984.

 

[westwall]

Hey everyone

Walking across the street MIGHT get you killed. so knock it off. fly instead..

What an idiot. I guess if it happened where you live you might be singing a different tune....or not, you're too ignorant to know any better.

Listen up dear. I lived in Alaska for 15 years. the State that has the MOST earthquakes of even California. Went thought a 7.9 earthquake OMG and lived.


YOU?

I live in California, thus I have personal experiences with earthquakes, big and small.

Fracking in California Questions and Concerns

California Fracking Regulations CAFrackFacts

Oil Gas and Fracking in California Clean Water Action

Not that I expect the willfully ignorant and others, like Stephanie, to read and consider the consequences, but most Californians treasure clean water over oil. Seems like a sane choice, which may explain why the Stephanies of the world support the oil and coal industries desire for unfettered rights and oppose interfering regulations in their quest for money,

Yes Stephanie, there is more at stake than a simple earthquake, and as we can see on the news today, some earthquakes are not so simple,

How about you post some links to the effects of MTBE on ground water that the State of California mandated be added to gasoline. We have nearly 60 years of experience with fracking. The EPA, which is no friend to fracking, has a study that stipulates fracking does NONE of the things you people claim it does. The freaking Obama EPA says this!

Time for you to adhere to your advice there buckwheat.

If you want to talk about dishonesty, the quote in your signature is not the Actual quote.. You cut out the last part on purpose.

Yes, I use the part that mattered. Not dishonest at all. And I knew the man personally so have a better handle on his psyche than you. Now address the OP or go play elsewhere.

 

[westwall]

ADDRESS THE OP FOLKS.

 

[Mertex]

The EPA, which is no friend to fracking, has a study that stipulates fracking does NONE of the things you people claim it does. The freaking Obama EPA says this!

How old are the EPA's studies? Do you have an EPA link that is as current as my OP link which is dated April 1, 2015 9:34 am?

 

[westwall]

The EPA, which is no friend to fracking, has a study that stipulates fracking does NONE of the things you people claim it does. The freaking Obama EPA says this!

How old are the EPA's studies? Do you have an EPA link that is as current as my OP link which is dated April 1, 2015 9:34 am?

They were released last year.

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