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<blockquote data-quote="jbnova" data-source="post: 1292860" data-attributes="member: 7663"><p>I just spent the past year working in Pennsylvania amid all the contaminated water well issues in the Dimock area.&nbsp; The actual fracturing process isnt the culprit in those cases.&nbsp; The geology is a lot different in that area and there are very shallow natural gas pockets that are encountered in the drilling process that seems to find its was into the water table.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fracturing is being singled out mainly because it sounds like an evil process and easier to sell as propaganda.&nbsp;&nbsp; A properly cased hole will not leak into the water table when the formations that are being fracked in the PA area are 4,000 ft and deeper.&nbsp; &nbsp; There is also the issue of supplying the water to frac each well.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the horizontal fracs require 100,000 barrels or more of water.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thats a lot of water being pulled from the watershed areas and one them in that region also supplies water for New York City and New Jersey.&nbsp;&nbsp; The people who are against the influx of drilling in that region have figured out that drilling the wells up there does no good if you cant frac and complete them.&nbsp;&nbsp; So the fracturing process has been singled out and receiving their focus.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="jbnova, post: 1292860, member: 7663"] I just spent the past year working in Pennsylvania amid all the contaminated water well issues in the Dimock area. The actual fracturing process isnt the culprit in those cases. The geology is a lot different in that area and there are very shallow natural gas pockets that are encountered in the drilling process that seems to find its was into the water table. Fracturing is being singled out mainly because it sounds like an evil process and easier to sell as propaganda. A properly cased hole will not leak into the water table when the formations that are being fracked in the PA area are 4,000 ft and deeper. There is also the issue of supplying the water to frac each well. Most of the horizontal fracs require 100,000 barrels or more of water. Thats a lot of water being pulled from the watershed areas and one them in that region also supplies water for New York City and New Jersey. The people who are against the influx of drilling in that region have figured out that drilling the wells up there does no good if you cant frac and complete them. So the fracturing process has been singled out and receiving their focus. [/QUOTE]

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