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  • 'Fracing' Technique Creates Great Opportunity in Exploration of Oil and Gas  [View article]
    This technology has been around for a long time. Search Google for enhanced oil recovery, tertiary oil recovery etc. and you will be able to read reams on it.

    Some of the more advanced techniques like CO2 injection have pretty low environmental impact.

    On May 20 11:02 AM bobbobwhite wrote:

    > A big concern should be about what the pumped fluids are doing to
    > degrade underground water and the overall environment. When fracing
    > gel is put down those pipes, isn't it going to get into the underground
    > water resources at some point? What is the gel made of? Is it a harmful
    > polutant, or what? What has the public been told about it? And, if
    > fracing works for oil and gas, it sure will work for water too at
    > the same time, maybe inadvertantly, but still possibly allowing polluted
    > water to combine with other water that could make it into someone's
    > well or even a city municipal supply.
    >
    > My questions are concerning the potential long term public consequences
    > of water supply pollution due to the pumping of fracing "solutions"
    > into bedrock. Anyone here have any real info that is not tainted
    > by self interest?
    May 20 14:12 pm |Rating: +4 0 |Link to Comment
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