A friend of mine shared this with honest and understandable concern. I want to take a sec and try to explain why this just isnt true. There is so much regulation, so many barriers. Where there is any water zone when we drill a hole, they drill a big 13 hole, run 9 5/8 heavy duty casing down it, pump very expensive high grade cement around it, then they run another string of casing, this time 7, and pump more cement between the 2, then they run a 4 1/2 casing frac string down before they pump any frac chemicals. Each and every cement job is closely monitrred by the state, and if there is even a hint of a bad cement job, they run back in, perforated the casing and repump an even thicker, way more expensive cement pressuring it in way past the pressure you would see on a frac job. So the only way the frac chemicals could get into the drinking water would be to somehow pass through all of that, or maybe sink down from the surface, which would take unbelievable amounts of fluid as the chemicals would be filtered and bleached away by the ground its self, or maybe pushed up from way down deep where they are pushing it... That would take 100x the fluid it would from the surface and more pressure than could be applied if you combined several hundred frac jobs. The water that we drink is usually around 2000 deep, through dirt, sand, sandstone shale, and rock. The frac depths are usually around 10,000 deep. The chemicals would have to push up 8000.... Thats just under 2 miles of rock....
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:29:41 +0000
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