A Fracking Method With Fewer Water Woes? – NYTimes.com
Research Blog | November 9, 2011
Still awaiting a patent in the U.S., the technique has been used about 1,000 times since 2008, mainly in gas wells in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and New Brunswick and a smaller handful of test wells in states that include Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico, said GasFrac Chief Technology Officer…
Study Says Fluids From Hydraulic Fracturing Killed Trees
Research Blog | July 13, 2011
(My emphasis added to the last line of the excerpt.) A study that argues for more research into the safe disposal of chemical-laced wastewater resulting from natural gas drilling found that a patch of national forest in West Virginia suffered quick and serious loss of vegetation after it was sprayed with hydraulic fracturing fluids. The…