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Wed Oct 31, 2012 at 16:18:07 PM MST
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(promoted by fong - then - promoted by Zappatero)
Here in the desert, I am wondering where all the water will come from to frak all of the wells that are proposed in Colorado and where will the waste water go.
The volume of water required annually to develop new oil and gas wells in the state could supply up to 79,000 Colorado households for a year based on average residential use, according to a report issued Wednesday by Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates.
The report goes on to say that when re-use of water is factored in at the residential level, the amount of water used by the oil and gas industry could actually serve up to 118,400 homes in Colorado. Daily Camera |
| gnawdoow :: Where is the water that makes frakking possible coming from and where will it go? |
That sounds like a lot of water, particularly since once the water is used, it can't go back into the environment because it is too polluted and toxic.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Association says fracking a typical vertical well requires up to 1 million gallons of water, while a horizontal well can require up to 5 million gallons.
Western Resource Advocates calculated that the volume of water that would be added to Gross Reservoir as part of a proposed expansion project -- 18,000 acre-feet per year -- is equal to the amount of water the state estimates will be needed each year for fracking, starting in 2015.
An acre-foot, which is equal to 325,000 gallons, can supply two families for a year.
"It's enough water that you could essentially add a new city to the state," Bane said.
The group's report also states that, unlike residential water use, in which a large proportion of water ultimately is released to streams or reused, the water processed at well sites is too dirty to be used again.
Do we really want to destroy the environment by building and expanding dams to store water for companies to pollute it and take that water permanently out of the ecosystem? Are the gas companies paying for the expansion of the water supply necessary for all this frakking? We are asked to conserve water in our homes, but it doesn't sound like the gas industry is doing much conservation. Shouldn't the cost of detoxifying this water be part of the cost of drilling and extracting the gas and oil?
What is the plan to dispose of this water? Are we dumping it into abandoned wells? Who is paying for the wear and tear on our roads created by this travel?
Western Resource Advocates' report also cited a Douglas County study that concluded that one well pad with six wells requires 6,000 truck trips to haul fracking water and 3,000 trips for wastewater disposal.
I apologize if this has been covered, but I haven't seen much of this in the news and the Gov hasn't addressed it.
all quotes from http://www.dailycamera.com/ene... |
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