Anyone want to guess where the wastewater will go if they start fracking in new Brunswick?
Anyone want to guess where the wastewater will go if they start fracking in new Brunswick?
Within the past 15 years, the Marcellus Shale region (which includes areas in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Maryland, and Virginia) has seen a 540 percent increase in generated fracking waste. In 2014 alone, fracking in the United States produced more than 14 billion gallons of wastewater. Although the industry injects 98 percent of its wastewater into underground wells, science has yet to completely assess the practice’s potential impacts to surrounding communities—anything from traffic problems and noise pollution to groundwater contamination and earthquakes.
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Pollution doesn’t seem to matter much to people. Maybe using earthquake stats due to fracking or oil extracting.
Oklahoma went from 2 to 3 light earthquakes per year to over 500, some of those over magnitude 5, all that in a very short period of time.
I could find stats and USGS study if you need the source.
Then there’s also methane emissions, Oklahoma now emits more methane than the whole contiguous US