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2016-11-13 Government

Fracking poisons ground water myth busted - EPA is at fault for myth

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Posted by DarthVader 2016-11-13 09:26|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Also explains why those Trump voodoo dolls didn't work...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-11-13 09:54|| 2016-11-13 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 We pay a lot of tax money for this antagonism

Posted by newc 2016-11-13 12:51|| 2016-11-13 12:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Just a sec. Fraking poisons wells - I thought Jews poison wells?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-13 14:29|| 2016-11-13 14:29|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not like we have a monopoly on the technique, g(r)omgoru. But then consider the probability that at least one person at the EPA is Jewish. Q.E.D.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-11-13 15:01|| 2016-11-13 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 No Joooos poison babies which they throw into wells.

(Damn do I have to do everything around here?)
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Posted by Shipman 2016-11-13 16:35|| 2016-11-13 16:35|| Front Page Top

#6 "Just tryin' to keep the 12th Imam from gettin' away....".

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-11-13 16:35|| 2016-11-13 16:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh no, Shipman -- the babies are for making Passover matzahs. Both poisoning and drowning them would be counterproductive.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-11-13 21:44|| 2016-11-13 21:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Fracking can cause earthquakes - at least indirectly: Fracked fields tend to produce very large volumes of water (and a tiny bit of leftover frac fluid) along with their oil or gas. That water is usually re-injected into a large, deep (1-2 miles), permeable rock layer. If an earthquakable fault cuts the injection well or rock layer near the injection point the fluid pressure may counteract the pressure holding the rocks on either side of the fault together - think of an air hockey table and puck - and the fault may slip, to relieve the natural stresses on it. In general this is not 'creating' an earthquake, but it is 'triggering' one sooner than it would otherwise occur. I am familiar with one study 15 years or so ago of seismicity in the Barnett Shale gas play in the Dallas area (the first major fracked shale play): one small quake was definitively the result of fluid injection and a few others possibly, but the rest (90% IIRC) were clearly not related. (The recent - and unusually large - Oklahoma quakes were not in an area of fracking or other major wastewater injection.) For a while the concept (fluid injection into fault zones) was considered as a way of preventing large earthquakes, but liability issues and the fact that to prevent one large one it would take thousands of small ones, which people would not accept.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-11-13 21:55|| 2016-11-13 21:55|| Front Page Top

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