If this never occurred the process of hydraulic fracturing would be illegal.
Got that?
Hydraulic fracturing before Bush / Cheney was illegal. It pollutes air and water.
Don't believe me when I state it was illegal. Look at this.
...Fracturing can be traced to the 1980s, (click here) when liquid (and later, solidified) nitroglycein was used to stimulate shallow, hard rock wells in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Although extremely hazardous, and often used illegally, NG was spectacularly successful for oil well “shooting.” The object of shooting a well was to break up, or rubblize, the oil-bearing formation to increase both initial flow and ultimate recovery of oil....
The petroleum industry has conducted itself illegally most of its existence, but, it managed to make itself an intricate part of any economy on the globe so they do operate above the law. They operate with any good excuse for them to do so. As a result, people die on a regular basis in this industry. Now, they have given themselves permission to be above reproach with propagandized advertisements permeating the airwaves.
The most touching of the propaganda was when the elder Pickens stated he was heavily interested in building wind and solar as the best energy for the USA. Today, he simply states, 'It isn't workable." It isn't workable for his profit margin, it never was, but, lying is as good as gold to the petroleum bosses.
Hydraulic fracturing is extremely dangerous. It dissolves bedrock. Got that part? It dissolves bedrock. Now you know if there are chemicals injected into the ground down a deep hole passing through aquifers the is contamination taking place. There just is. The real test of the immorality of the petroleum industry is to ask state governments to consider the standards they measure potable water. See, if the standards for potable water are workable for the petroleum industry they might be able to proceed without their profits being effected.
PPM. Parts per million. If one looks at the earliest standards in the nation's history and how those standards were refined to the best allowable for human consumption and inhalation; then the true standards will be known.
The fact is hydraulic fracturing is adverse to the integrity of land (seismic activity, clean water, healthy livestock (they drink water) and crops (irrigated water) and clean air. Not clear air, clean air. Natural gas is odorless and colorless when coming up from the deep wells. The odor of natural gas is added after the gas is captured.
Much of the activity of the petroleum industry relies on concrete. If fills in holes were the drills have punched trough and the space between metal casings. Concrete is the do all and end all of the petroleum industry.
If you accept the premise the industry knows they are causing real damage to all I mentioned above and is being told to end their drilling where it can be proven there is seismic activity. Even in Texas. Then it is only a short time before the industry will increase tax deductible expenses by pouring concrete into deep waste water wells where the seismic activity occurs and call it FIXED. FOREVER FIXED.
That would be a lie. Poured concrete, no matter what it is mixed with will never stand up to the pressure that deep in the ground, nor will it be a lasting fix. Quite the contrary. The chemicals in the well will dissolve the concrete.
Concrete is no substitute for stable rock formations formed on Earth. No substitute at all.
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Most all types of limestone are listed on Moh's Scale of Hardness (the geological scale - click here) as between 3 and 4. Diamonds are a ten.
There is no way the petroleum industry should ever be allowed by any government at any level to mystify those with the idea concrete will stabilize all seismic activity.
It is a lie!
