What are your thoughts on the "major second wave" of US fracking?
For the record, i have not come to a conclusion on this one. I don't have all the facts yet. Just curious.
31-35, M
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SageWanderer · 70-79, M
Let's see, with in a 50 mile radius of my home there have been eight well head explosions since 2013. That's not counting the ruptured pipelines, accidents from heavy well traffic plus the damage to our roads. Add to that most of the workers are from out of state so there is little income to the local governments due to them not being property owners a second wave here? Sorry, lets see the frackers get their acts together first.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@SageWanderer Bingo. If you go to a community where fracking is going on, the local hotel parking lots will be filled with trucks from Texas and Oklahoma. That money is going out of state. In discussions I had with the State of Pennsylvania, the estimated frequency of leakage from fracking wells was 3%. While that will get better with time, when you're looking at 25,000 wells, having even a small percentage of well failures is a big environmental problem.
Any guess what the most earthquake-prone state is in the US? It isn't California, which it was until the late 2000s. It is Oklahoma. Deep well injection of oil field and fracking fluids has generated thousands of earthquakes, and the problem grows by the day.
Any guess what the most earthquake-prone state is in the US? It isn't California, which it was until the late 2000s. It is Oklahoma. Deep well injection of oil field and fracking fluids has generated thousands of earthquakes, and the problem grows by the day.