Halliburton and Conductivity Endurance
Case History 4: New Mexico (click here)
Coalbed Methane Production
Increases Almost Four-Fold
Even though they had already been fractu...
Photo by Mary Shinn/The Durango Herald. A spiderweb of roads connects mostly natural-gas wells in the San Juan Basin south of Farmington. Advocates argue better planning could prevent hodgepodge development in southern areas of the basin where gas and oil companies are starting to use hydraulic fracturing to extract oil.
October 17, 2014
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (click here) is already surrounded by land leased for natural gas extraction, nearly 90 percent of the land in the San Juan Basin is leased for that purpose. A new network of oil wells developed by hydraulic fracturing along U.S. Highway 550 is being planned with companies planning to expand even more. Three companies plan to invest $600 million in the next year to year and a half, with a single one, Encana, planning 45-50 new exploratory wells. Environmental, archaeological and tribal groups worry about the lack of planning to continue to preserve the ancient ruins and pristine environment. One of the environmental concerns is flaring of wells, where the excess methane is burnt off, leading to air pollution and smog. There is also concern about the possible contamination of drinking water. For archaeologists and tribal members there is concern about damage to these scared ancient sites that literally dot the landscape....
Ancient people left an impressive network of roads and ruins in Chaco Canyon.
Further north at Mesa Verde National Park there have been deaths of wild horses. The park service stated it was due to hydration but remained unsure the cause.
The USA government should note the demonstrators never showed up with guns!
September 21, 2014
Aqueous Methane will convert to cyanide if ammonia is present. The horses if found in time need to be tested for poisoning. In the meantime, the water sources have to be tested for poisoning either natural or man-made pollution.
CH4
Methane (click here) combines with ammonia in wastewater to produce hydrocyanic acid (aqueous hydrogen cyanide, HCN, also known as prussic acid, the Nazi poison Zyklon B). Commercially, this is known as the BMA process. All cyanide species are considered to be acute hazardous materials and have therefore been designated as P-Class hazardous wastes. The remediation target for cyanide in wastewater is 1:g/L (one part per billion), which is unattainable with presently known treatment technologies, even ultrafiltration, which at best can get to 10 :g/L and are prohibitively expensive.
While the water sources for the wildlife at Mesa Verde are not waste water, high concentrations of methane in the air can become suspended in water to form a methane aqueous solution. In that state it can easily mix with other chemicals in the water to form poisons. I think everyone would remember the skull and cross bone signs next to a pond in western movie pictures. Poisons will occur under the right conditions. The water sources in Mesa Verde National Park has to be tested in the face of the deaths of the wild horses. If the Park Service and Department of Interior would do that there would be many happy people in the area.
EPA has to check the methane concentration is the entire region where this accumulation as resulted. I guarantee you the air quality is not good.
Conductivity Endurance as a method of extraction of methane is now suspect for air quality problems. The procedure needs to be reviewed and decided about the safety of the technology. The Four Corners is enough proof there is something grossly wrong with it. It may also be responsible for water quality problems.
When the Department of Interior writes leases it needs to remember these are public lands and regardless of the drilling should be safe for citizens to visit and enjoy. This mess is appalling. I can't believe the federal government allowed this to happen for nothing but profiting off our land. This is an outrage. There is every reason to believe Interior never demanded "Best Practices."
Coalbed Methane Production
Increases Almost Four-Fold
Even though they had already been fractu...
Photo by Mary Shinn/The Durango Herald. A spiderweb of roads connects mostly natural-gas wells in the San Juan Basin south of Farmington. Advocates argue better planning could prevent hodgepodge development in southern areas of the basin where gas and oil companies are starting to use hydraulic fracturing to extract oil.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (click here) is already surrounded by land leased for natural gas extraction, nearly 90 percent of the land in the San Juan Basin is leased for that purpose. A new network of oil wells developed by hydraulic fracturing along U.S. Highway 550 is being planned with companies planning to expand even more. Three companies plan to invest $600 million in the next year to year and a half, with a single one, Encana, planning 45-50 new exploratory wells. Environmental, archaeological and tribal groups worry about the lack of planning to continue to preserve the ancient ruins and pristine environment. One of the environmental concerns is flaring of wells, where the excess methane is burnt off, leading to air pollution and smog. There is also concern about the possible contamination of drinking water. For archaeologists and tribal members there is concern about damage to these scared ancient sites that literally dot the landscape....
Further north at Mesa Verde National Park there have been deaths of wild horses. The park service stated it was due to hydration but remained unsure the cause.
The USA government should note the demonstrators never showed up with guns!
September 21, 2014
On July 29, (click here) protesters began demonstrating against the park’s policy of not aiding the horses. Some had heard rumors that the National Park Service had actually fenced off springs and seeps that the horses relied on for water, a charge denied by the agency.
The horses were found on Wetherill Mesa in June and July and were not discovered in time to do a necropsy, according to Mesa Verde Public Information Officer Betty Lieurance.
“If we find other dead horses in time to meet the short time-window required for a necropsy to be performed, we will definitely do that to determine the cause of death.”
Bonnie Loving, who lives near Mesa Verde, owns two adopted BLM mustangs, one from Wyoming and one from Nevada. She rode her horse Ringo to the protest, which took place in front of the visitors center just off Highway 160 at the park entrance, but she had to stop before entering the parking lot because horses are not allowed.
“Mesa Verde provides a designated First Amendment area at the Visitors and Research Center for public speaking,” Lieurance explained in a telephone interview with the Free Press on July 30. “The people can gather there, but the horses cannot come in the park.”
Loving said her two adopted mustangs are amazing....
Aqueous Methane will convert to cyanide if ammonia is present. The horses if found in time need to be tested for poisoning. In the meantime, the water sources have to be tested for poisoning either natural or man-made pollution.
Methane (click here) combines with ammonia in wastewater to produce hydrocyanic acid (aqueous hydrogen cyanide, HCN, also known as prussic acid, the Nazi poison Zyklon B). Commercially, this is known as the BMA process. All cyanide species are considered to be acute hazardous materials and have therefore been designated as P-Class hazardous wastes. The remediation target for cyanide in wastewater is 1:g/L (one part per billion), which is unattainable with presently known treatment technologies, even ultrafiltration, which at best can get to 10 :g/L and are prohibitively expensive.
EPA has to check the methane concentration is the entire region where this accumulation as resulted. I guarantee you the air quality is not good.
Conductivity Endurance as a method of extraction of methane is now suspect for air quality problems. The procedure needs to be reviewed and decided about the safety of the technology. The Four Corners is enough proof there is something grossly wrong with it. It may also be responsible for water quality problems.
When the Department of Interior writes leases it needs to remember these are public lands and regardless of the drilling should be safe for citizens to visit and enjoy. This mess is appalling. I can't believe the federal government allowed this to happen for nothing but profiting off our land. This is an outrage. There is every reason to believe Interior never demanded "Best Practices."
