water in the
anthropocene
Thursday, 5 February 2015
erin brokovitch provides a hydrology and pollution map of the usa
Erin brokovitch hydrology and pollution map of the usa. The big picture.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
fracking and fresh water contamination
"No
reported cases of groundwater contamination due to the process of
fracking".
Terry
greenwood ... He's dead now .... Strange cancer killed
him and his livestock.
That
is in part due to the Haliburton loophole making
fracking exempt from legal prosecution of the clean water act. A number of
cases have been hushed up with confidentiality agreements. This is all starting
to unravel in the us.
Fresh
Water is contaminated when the process starts by adding the chemicals to create
slickwater. This is a contamination event.
This
slickwater is Contaminated
further by the explosive process of fracking creating NORM sludge.
This
water brine is then put in ponds that are open to wildlife and nearby livestock.
Floods
can wash away these pools and containers. Lightning can and has damaged The containers.
In
Some cases of abandoned wells in Pennsylvania the evaporation pools where just
bulldozed Without cleanup. In flood risk areas.
There
are cases of
Waste
water brine being dumped on roads and fields.
There
are cases of wastewater being pumped into waste water injection wells Causing earthquakes.
There
are cases of wastewater being dumped into canals or lakes.
Earthquakes
caused by fracking can have an indirect effect of contaminating water supplies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-reese-halter/fracking-poisons-californ_b_5986758.html
Jessica
Ernst
Fracking
and water usage
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/fracking-water-america-drought-oil-gas
When people talk of swimming pools and golf courses per well.
That needs to be multiplied by 100s If not 1000s for industrial scale fracking
production.
This
is fresh water remember. The same stuff that had hose pipe
bans and "droughts"not so long ago.
At
least 50 percent of the freshwater used is completely lost to the water cycle.
The rest is contaminated by the "secret" ice cream ingredients going
down and the radioactive NORM sludge coming back up.
Some
of the slickwater brine waste is injected into waste
water wells that have been linked to earthquakes. Which is further lost from
the water cycle water system.
Some
has been found to have contaminated drinking water aquifers... So this water
isn't lost to the water system but does contaminate it.
Some
is left in evaporation ponds that are open to wildlife and livestock. These are
also open to flooding see the colorado
floods and how sensible it is to build in a flood plain. In pensylvania
some of these Evaporation salt pits were just bulldozed over and covered up in
flood risk areas.
When
we talk of brine and salt this isn't normal salt sodium chloride this is other
chemical salts with health risks.
Some
is used legally and illegally as dust suppression on roads.
In
America some of
It
is just dumped in fields in the uk
it was dumped into a manchester canal.
http://bakken.com/news/id/75668/north-dakota-oil-patch-truckers-dumping-illegal-waste-rarely-caught/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25902272
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/22/the_trillion_gallon_wastewater_loophole/
There
are cases of evaporation ponds above leaking to lower livestock drinking ponds
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/24/after-rancher-s-death-calls-fracking-health-study-grow-stronger
Fracking and radon gas quick literature search… and summary.
Fracking and radon gas quick literature search… and summary.
Good practice would be to do a baseline radon EIA
environmental impact assessment and then continue with assessments every month
to 6 months.
Radon is produced when fracking. Is this a cost worth paying by the people
living near it? As a nation should we
care enough to stop and think about consequences?
Radiation accumulates in particular areas of
production. Whether it is the pipes
used in the vertical drilling or the sludge pits or the containers used to hold
the waste NORM sludge.
Dealing with the pipes and waste products safely is essential
and in America has been ignored. I am
trying to find the video about the scrap metal yards in America that had to
install gieger counters to refuse taking old drilling pipes that were highly
radioactive.
With installing pro fracker PR spin doctor at the head of
the EA what hope is there that Britain would be any different. Looking at the shocking history of fracking
in America all the ecological questions and local issues were shut down at a higher
level by industry influenced politicians.
This culture of silence and corruption is starting to unravel.
A related problem is abandoned disowned wells with no one
looking after them
Just because other sources of energy production are worse
does not validate fracking.
Take for example the south downs near where I live, I wouldn’t want a nuclear plant up there, a
coal mine up there or a fracking site up there. Using one bad thing to justify another bad
thing is not a valid argument. Im not
sure I would want the current generation of wind turbines up there but I would
prefer that to fracking. Offshore for
it all imho. And work on wave capture
and localised hydrogen production with the excess energy.
See this report from the American association of radon
scientists and technologists.
http://www.ukradon.org/cms/assets/gfx/content/resource_3265csf4334c131c.pdf
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Academic links evidence against fracking
Academic resources anti fracking.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-23/frackers-fund-university-research-that-proves-their-case
My older post
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/there-are-none-so-blind-as-those-whose.html
I really need to get on the case and write a list of anti fracking academic papers
https://www.zotero.org/groups/pse_study_citation_database/items/q/Fracking
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=fracking+&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5
Case law
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=fracking+&btnG=&as_sdt=2006
List of resources which talk about academic bias
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100282976/want-to-know-how-fracking-will-affect-you-sorry-thats-a-state-secret/
http://psehealthyenergy.org
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es032338+
http://www.ernstversusencana.ca/
Pressure
http://plashingvole.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/grimms-tale.html
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/28/fracking-risk-compared-to-thalidomide-and-asbestos-in-walport-report
https://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/
http://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/full_report5.pdf
Blatantly obvious problems
I think one problem is that some of it is so blatantly obvious. The earthquakes. The traffic logs, projections, accidents and evidence from the us. The fizzing murky water that is safe for YOU to drink that they refuse to. The ex mayor of dish Texas. Deep water horizon and piper alpha as examples of oil and gas safety record.
If it's been printed by a national newspaper it has a certain amount of legal veracity to avoid libel and other legal action.
Manchester illegal dumping
http://www.frackaware.com/wordpress/?p=2128
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-reese-halter/fracking-poisons-californ_b_5986758.html
Earthquakes
Precautionary principle.
Building storage ponds in a flood risk areas. See colorado flooding.
http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/fracking
http://greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/PolicyPointers/Green%20Party%20policy%20pointer%20-%20fracking.pdf
http://www.jku.at/orc/content/e41325/employee_groups_wiss204404/employees219932/subdocs219965/content256025/Willfrackingputtoomuchfizzinyourwater_eng.pdf
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
Select committee
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/environmental-risks-of-fracking-inquiry/commons-written-submission-form/
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/environmental-risks-of-fracking-inquiry/commons-written-submission-form/
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/there-are-none-so-blind-as-those-whose.html
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/there-are-none-so-blind-as-those-whose.html
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/environmental-risks-of-fracking-inquiry/commons-written-submission-form/
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/there-are-none-so-blind-as-those-whose.html
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/there-are-none-so-blind-as-those-whose.html
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