"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
