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Old 07-13-2010, 11:40 AM   #1
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Fracking in Denver (and elsewhere)
http://cbs4denver.com/wireapnewsco/E...2.1801284.html

.....The meeting Tuesday night in Denver is to gather public comments on an upcoming study on the relationship between fracking and drinking water.....
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Old 07-13-2010, 11:43 AM   #2
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.....The meeting Tuesday night in Denver is to gather public comments on an upcoming study on the relationship between fracking and drinking water.....
they were doing that when I was in Wyoming contracting for the railroad. the water was HORRID!!!! full of sulphur! good thing the dog and I lived alone!
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they were doing that when I was in Wyoming contracting for the railroad. the water was HORRID!!!! full of sulphur! good thing the dog and I lived alone!
what's living alone have to do with bad water? Or that you lived on bottled water?
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.....The meeting Tuesday night in Denver is to gather public comments on an upcoming study on the relationship between fracking and drinking water.....
How old is this 'fracking' word?
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Fracking is a process that pumps fluids into underground geologic formations at high pressures to help extract oil and natural gas.
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what's living alone have to do with bad water? Or that you lived on bottled water?
the sulphur content that was in the water due to this process made the air in the house rather green... if you catch my drift (the dog and I had terrible gas, never before and never since)
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the sulphur content that was in the water due to this process made the air in the house rather green... if you catch my drift (the dog and I had terrible gas, never before and never since)
ah, now I get it. Rotten eggs ...
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Old 07-13-2010, 12:40 PM   #7
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Okay, these fracking headlines are fracking awesome!

"With Focus on BP, Don’t Lose Sight of Fracking Issues"

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com...ues-04369.html

"What's The Big Fracking Deal?"

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-bea...-97947894.html

"No fracking way: Ban hydraulic fracturing in Canada"

http://rabble.ca/news/2010/07/no-fra...cturing-canada

"‘Gasland’ film blows the fracking top off US natural gas industry"

http://www.greenfudge.org/2010/07/03...-gas-industry/

This has to be the most fun for headline writers since the teabaggers came along!
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Old 07-13-2010, 01:01 PM   #8
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Old 07-13-2010, 01:16 PM   #9
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good thing the dog and I lived alone!
Apparently no fracking going on there
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Old 07-14-2010, 05:42 AM   #11
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What the Frak is Fracking?

Fracking is a technical term for hydraulic fracturing of deep rock deposits, developed and perfected by the oil & gas industry in which a high pressure fluid is injected into a deep (oil or gas bearing in the case of the Oil & Gas industry) geologic formation in order to fracture the rock and make it more permeable. In fracking the high pressure fluid spreads out from the bore hole creating a spreading fracture zone around it. The fractures are kept open by injecting sand or small ceramic beads – called poppants – into the spreading cracks that are mixed in slurry with the water.

Fracking has gotten a bad name with environmentalists because the oil and gas industry commonly mixes other (secretive and polluting) additives into the working fluid designed to chemically enhance the physical hydraulic pressure effects with the oil or gas bearing rocks. These additives then pollute the aquifers within those rock deposits. The additives are used in the oil and gas industry because the objective is to extract the physically AND chemically bonded hydrocarbons contained within the rock formation.

Fracking is also used in the water industry in order to increase the flow of water into a bore hole. In this case, only a pure water and poppant (i.e. sand or ceramic bead) slurry is forced down the well and into the spreading fracture zone. This is also what would be done for geothermal hot rock fracking, because the objective is purely the physical cracking or fracturing of a zone of hot rocks in order to make them water permeable and thus able to produce hot water or steam.
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Seems the oil and gas industry is the worst one for causing pollution from fracking.
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Old 07-14-2010, 12:17 PM   #12
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I should quit fracking around and get some work done.
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Yes, you should, you're releasing a lot of gas!
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Here's a fracking update.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...s-.html?ref=hp
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