Comments on: Canadian Report Says Fracking Can Lead to Water Contamination https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/05/09/canadian-report-says-fracking-can-lead-to-water-contamination/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: S. Thomas Bond https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/05/09/canadian-report-says-fracking-can-lead-to-water-contamination/#comment-71966 S. Thomas Bond Sat, 10 May 2014 19:03:24 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=11716#comment-71966 And notice how the industry carefully avoids the one thing that would quickly and easily prove migration of fracture fluid - the use of chemical tracers, compounds that can easily be identified as coming from a well, because they do not exist in nature. The shale drilling industry has so many fatal flaws in the nonsense they put out it has to be more carefully organized than a ballet. If you go to a talk given by one of them, you can almost see the wires from the speaker going back to the computer that has been programmed with the right words and intonation. And notice how the industry carefully avoids the one thing that would quickly and easily prove migration of fracture fluid – the use of chemical tracers, compounds that can easily be identified as coming from a well, because they do not exist in nature. The shale drilling industry has so many fatal flaws in the nonsense they put out it has to be more carefully organized than a ballet. If you go to a talk given by one of them, you can almost see the wires from the speaker going back to the computer that has been programmed with the right words and intonation.

]]> By: Don Alejandro https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/05/09/canadian-report-says-fracking-can-lead-to-water-contamination/#comment-71864 Don Alejandro Sat, 10 May 2014 11:35:02 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=11716#comment-71864 'But, “There is no known case of hydraulic fracturing fluid migration from deep shale gas zones to groundwater level directly through the rock.”' Of course, there are also no known cases of oil leaks 'directly through a pipe' or chemical leaks 'directly through the tank' or leaks of any kind directly through an intact barrier. But there are plenty of known leaks through cracks in pipes or holes in tanks. Fracking fluid, oil, and gas will leak through cracks in the rock and through the many holes drilled through the rock. Isn't the whole point of fracking to open up cracks? And wells are repeatedly fracked, so the chances of creating or widening cracks through what is *not* solid contiguous rock go up with each frack... ‘But, “There is no known case of hydraulic fracturing fluid migration from deep shale gas zones to groundwater level directly through the rock.”’

Of course, there are also no known cases of oil leaks ‘directly through a pipe’ or chemical leaks ‘directly through the tank’ or leaks of any kind directly through an intact barrier.

But there are plenty of known leaks through cracks in pipes or holes in tanks. Fracking fluid, oil, and gas will leak through cracks in the rock and through the many holes drilled through the rock.

Isn’t the whole point of fracking to open up cracks? And wells are repeatedly fracked, so the chances of creating or widening cracks through what is *not* solid contiguous rock go up with each frack…

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