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If this is fracking water, it's truly horrifying.
by curtis3389 2y ago
If this is fracking water, it's truly horrifying.
- jvanderbot 2y agoTFA posits that it's actually fracking water creating the pressure that is pushing the old "fill" water out of these wells. That's somehow less reassuring b/c it means the fracking water is creating enough pressure to blow old wells out, doesnt it?
- NegativeLatency 2y agoSeems like the difference between fracking water and fill water could be very little under some circumstances
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- hedora 2y agoThis water is probably worse than fracking water. In addition to being contaminated with oil, etc, according to the article it's 5-8 times saltier than sea water. These wells are literally salting the earth around them.
- ZeoVII 2y agoand also lots of >hazardous compounds such as arsenic, bromide, strontium, mercury, barium, and organic compounds, particularly benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes. This will likely contaminate the land, rendering it unsuitable for agriculture and, I dare say, potentially transforming it into a barren wasteland incapable of supporting organic life.
- callalex 2y agoSalt will definitely render the land unusable, but most of those other things are the consumer’s problem, not the producer. I find it highly unlikely that governments in Texas will ever successfully prevent a farmer from growing food on poisoned land, for the same reasons that governments in Texas let these wells become seeping messes in the first place.
- MisterBastahrd 2y agoWatched a video of a guy who owns an oil and gas company and when a nearby company started fracking their well, it produced enough pressure to 10x his own output without any effort on his part.
- DowagerDave 2y agoreservoirs are big sponge-like rocks. The pressure has to go somewhere.