Fracking Gas Is Fracking Great
Nov. 15th, 2008 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peristaltorYou Battlestar fans will loooove this:
The article continues, using this "new" fracking word with an obvious knowledge of Starbuck pissed off at Cylons:
Salty fracking water problematic? Fracking A -- and so say we all.
ALBANY, N.Y. – Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile underground are opening up "unconventional" gas fields touted as a key to the nation's energy future. . . .
The technology that has raised concern involves horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Thousands of wells have been drilled and fracked in New York in the past 50 years, New York DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis said. But refinement of the technology makes it feasible to extract gas from deeper, denser shales. (Emphasis fracking mine)
The article continues, using this "new" fracking word with an obvious knowledge of Starbuck pissed off at Cylons:
The latest technology, known as "slick water fracturing," uses far more water than earlier methods — 1 million to 5 million gallons for each fracking operation, Grannis said. . . .
The fracking fluid is blasted into the shale, opening cracks that let trapped gas escape. . . .
Disposal of salty fracking water is problematic . . . .
Salty fracking water problematic? Fracking A -- and so say we all.