At the Schlumberger Open House last month in Horseheads, I spent about 90 minutes in a 1-on-1 conversation with the man who heads up the whole operation there. It was his contention that they would be recovering and recycling approximately 10% of the fracking fluid, and the other 90% would either come up gradually over time in the produced water, or be lost into the system, and never recovered. I did not find this information at all comforting, especially in light of the fact that produced water is far less tightly-regulated, and may even be spread legally on roads, as I understand things currently.
>From: Joel and Sarah Gagnon <[email protected]> To: Sustainable Tompkins County listserv <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SustainableTompkins] Fw: Story from Daily Review: Citizens can use technology to monitor contamination from Marcellus shale activity Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed The article indicates that they reuse it for fracking, diluting it with new water. The article also notes that Fortuna was a little surprised to find that salt buildup was not a problem with fluid recovered from this formation. If that proves to be the case across the region, it would be it would be extraordinarily helpful in reducing the environmental impacts of fracking. Joel
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