The petroleum industry will tout this is the best technology for the USA, but, at the same time they cannot prove it is a safe technology. It is not only dangerous, but, the land is being destroyed. If there isn't livable land, there is no country.
One of the chemicals, just one of them is hydrochloric acid. What happens when acid is poured into the ground to melt rock? Thousands of feet below the feet people are standing on there are chemicals destroying rock from this technology.
In Oklahoma and Texas we know FOR A FACT this technology is causing earthquakes. It is not only causing earthquakes, the earthquakes are increasing in the Richter velocity.
Some wells have been closed and the earthquakes haven't stopped. The earthquakes aren't going to stop simply because the well is closed. Those chemicals are still in the rock. They are still melting the rock and won't stop until the chemical processes are completely used up by the melting process.
Now, that isn't the end of it. The melting of rock has caused a change in the weight distribution of the rock about the drilled shaft. Even after the chemical processes completely play out, the land above the drill shaft and below it has to stop moving around in order for the earthquakes to end. There is no guarantee the earthquakes will stop as the land and rock continue to shift.
If the land doesn't stop experiencing earthquakes the land will result in a dangerous rock formation called liquefaction. Liquefaction thousands of feet deep.
Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading. Liquefaction and related phenomena have been responsible for tremendous amounts of damage in historical earthquakes around the world.
How much weight in land and rock is above the horizontally drilled shaft? Why would a hole drilled in rock, even without the chemicals, be stable? What kind of process in drilling and stabilizing the shaft is going to stop the land and rock from destabilizing?
Oh, I'm not finished.
Vertical wells don't have layers upon layers of rock and land above it to collapse the well and it's casings. Vertical drilling only seeks to put a few holes into a vat of oil. It has no forces acting on it to collapse the well.
And then there is the issue of failed well casings. The petroleum industry states the well casings failures are rare. We know that is not the case and why this technology is dangerous to aquifers. The question is why do the well casings fail?
The well casing fail in this instance because the rock melting chemicals effect the well all the way down. From top to bottom the rock is exposed to the rock melting chemicals. Those chemicals are introduced before the well is established and cement casings are poured. Where are the chemicals when the petroleum industry pours their cement/concrete?
When the wells are so called stabilized the chemicals in the rock are still present. Why would cement or metal for that matter exposed to chemicals be stable enough to allow the well casings to be intact under extraordinary intense forces of rock and land?
The entire technology is dangerous and the industry has no interest or desire to provide a technology that is safe. The purpose of the petroleum industry is to drill, not to care about the well being of people or their country's lands. We have witnessed nothing but greed with exploding rail cars, over drilling that has crashed the price of oil and an industry with so much hubris they throw drug parties for US government workers and have no idea whether they will be able to continue the employ of Americans as they flood the market with oil and gas.
All that before I even discuss The Clean Air and Water Acts.
As previously noted, (click here) chemicals perform many functions in a hydraulic fracturing job. Although there are dozens to hundreds of chemicals which could be used as additives, there are a limited number which are routinely used in hydraulic fracturing. The following is a list of the chemicals used most often. This chart is sorted alphabetically by the Product Function to make it easier for you to compare to the fracturing records.
This is suppose to be a list of the chemicals the industry has to choose from in order to frack land. No standardization of the process, just anything they can find that is on the market.
There should never be trust placed in the hands of this industry as they completely ignore the public trust and it's ability to cope with their own reality when it hits.
And the industry has the nerve to challenge a President interested in the well being of the people he serves.
March 20, 2015
By Joby Warrick
The Obama administration (click here) imposed tougher restrictions Friday on tens of thousands of fossil-fuel wells on public lands that use fracking technology to extract oil and gas, saying the measures would help safeguard the nation’s water supply.
The regulations represent the administration’s most significant effort to tighten standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial practice that pumps liquid into rock seams at high pressure to access pockets of oil and gas that would be difficult to recover using more conventional methods. The measures affect only wells on federally owned lands, or roughly a quarter of the gas and oil operations in the country.
But industry groups immediately attacked the rules as needlessly burdensome and a threat to the country’s surging oil and gas industry. Some environmental groups also complained, saying the regulations were not strict enough....
One of the chemicals, just one of them is hydrochloric acid. What happens when acid is poured into the ground to melt rock? Thousands of feet below the feet people are standing on there are chemicals destroying rock from this technology.
In Oklahoma and Texas we know FOR A FACT this technology is causing earthquakes. It is not only causing earthquakes, the earthquakes are increasing in the Richter velocity.
Some wells have been closed and the earthquakes haven't stopped. The earthquakes aren't going to stop simply because the well is closed. Those chemicals are still in the rock. They are still melting the rock and won't stop until the chemical processes are completely used up by the melting process.
Now, that isn't the end of it. The melting of rock has caused a change in the weight distribution of the rock about the drilled shaft. Even after the chemical processes completely play out, the land above the drill shaft and below it has to stop moving around in order for the earthquakes to end. There is no guarantee the earthquakes will stop as the land and rock continue to shift.
If the land doesn't stop experiencing earthquakes the land will result in a dangerous rock formation called liquefaction. Liquefaction thousands of feet deep.
Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading. Liquefaction and related phenomena have been responsible for tremendous amounts of damage in historical earthquakes around the world.
How much weight in land and rock is above the horizontally drilled shaft? Why would a hole drilled in rock, even without the chemicals, be stable? What kind of process in drilling and stabilizing the shaft is going to stop the land and rock from destabilizing?
Oh, I'm not finished.
Vertical wells don't have layers upon layers of rock and land above it to collapse the well and it's casings. Vertical drilling only seeks to put a few holes into a vat of oil. It has no forces acting on it to collapse the well.
And then there is the issue of failed well casings. The petroleum industry states the well casings failures are rare. We know that is not the case and why this technology is dangerous to aquifers. The question is why do the well casings fail?The well casing fail in this instance because the rock melting chemicals effect the well all the way down. From top to bottom the rock is exposed to the rock melting chemicals. Those chemicals are introduced before the well is established and cement casings are poured. Where are the chemicals when the petroleum industry pours their cement/concrete?
When the wells are so called stabilized the chemicals in the rock are still present. Why would cement or metal for that matter exposed to chemicals be stable enough to allow the well casings to be intact under extraordinary intense forces of rock and land?
The entire technology is dangerous and the industry has no interest or desire to provide a technology that is safe. The purpose of the petroleum industry is to drill, not to care about the well being of people or their country's lands. We have witnessed nothing but greed with exploding rail cars, over drilling that has crashed the price of oil and an industry with so much hubris they throw drug parties for US government workers and have no idea whether they will be able to continue the employ of Americans as they flood the market with oil and gas.
All that before I even discuss The Clean Air and Water Acts.
As previously noted, (click here) chemicals perform many functions in a hydraulic fracturing job. Although there are dozens to hundreds of chemicals which could be used as additives, there are a limited number which are routinely used in hydraulic fracturing. The following is a list of the chemicals used most often. This chart is sorted alphabetically by the Product Function to make it easier for you to compare to the fracturing records.
This is suppose to be a list of the chemicals the industry has to choose from in order to frack land. No standardization of the process, just anything they can find that is on the market.
There should never be trust placed in the hands of this industry as they completely ignore the public trust and it's ability to cope with their own reality when it hits.
And the industry has the nerve to challenge a President interested in the well being of the people he serves.
March 20, 2015
By Joby Warrick
The Obama administration (click here) imposed tougher restrictions Friday on tens of thousands of fossil-fuel wells on public lands that use fracking technology to extract oil and gas, saying the measures would help safeguard the nation’s water supply.
The regulations represent the administration’s most significant effort to tighten standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial practice that pumps liquid into rock seams at high pressure to access pockets of oil and gas that would be difficult to recover using more conventional methods. The measures affect only wells on federally owned lands, or roughly a quarter of the gas and oil operations in the country.
But industry groups immediately attacked the rules as needlessly burdensome and a threat to the country’s surging oil and gas industry. Some environmental groups also complained, saying the regulations were not strict enough....
