Fracking uses water — about 16 million gallons per well per year in the Permian — to break open underground shales that hold oil and gas, but mostly super-salty water, buried remnants of ancient oceans.
“We have looked at getting that water and recycling it,” Shifflett said. “I’m very interested in doing that, but at present it’s just too expensive.” Frackers mix into the water proprietary solutions with scores of known and unknown chemicals which still need to be identified before they can be dealt with, he said. Then treatment technologies will need to be developed and tested for those specific toxins.
Today, injection capacity, the amount of well space permitted for fluid disposal, continues to grow, although the rate is slowing. In 13 counties of the Permian Basin, records from the Texas Railroad Commission show 6,462 injection wells permitted in the last 10 years, including 344 in the last year.
insideclimate TX borders the ocean. Time to take an intellectual and financial leadership role to solve economical water desalination.
insideclimate The question is - why have they not done this the whole time? Lack of respect for the water and the other people that depend on it or life. StopFracking JustStopOil
insideclimate You have no idea how fracking works
insideclimate Why not do this before?
insideclimate duh. the state should've mandated that fracking and gravy industry companies reuse water decades ago
insideclimate If companies want to frack in Texas, this should be a requirement.
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insideclimate With earthquakes and new salt water lakes, wonder what else oil and gas companies can do to make this area more of a wasteland?
insideclimate Yum! 😋
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