Actually this is the rub. When you say dangerous, what do you mean?bodypainter wrote: ↑April 23, 2021 6:28 pm
Due to the media, fracking for gas and oil has a bad rap through the media. It is highly regulated and actually very safe. Every gallon of gas you burn came from a fracked well.If you heat with gas the well was fracked with a sand/water solution forced into the rock strata, cracking the layers allowing the oil or gas to flow to the well.
Originally, they used Nitro to blow the well, but it was very dangerous.
To the planet? Well it is - the amount of lost (read that leaked and dumped into the atmosphere) greenhouse gases is enormous. This also ignores the burning of the captured gases and oils.
To the aquifers? Well it is - the fractured sub-stratas cause ground water levels to drop as the water flows into fill the cracks and the voids.
To surrounding landholders? Well it is as they bear the brunt of the disruptions, loss of water table, loss of breathing air quality, health declines...
To the miners? Well I'll give you that. It is cheaper and safer than some other methods.
They do not use a sand/water mix to create the hydraulic effect - there are many chemicals used to prevent the pump lines and fractures from becoming blocked and to allow the coal seam gas (CSG) to rise to be extracted. These leach into the water table and travel many miles underground contaminating the ground water.
It is the 21st Century. The reliance and 17th Century technologies (Coal, CSG, other fossil fuels) is stupid and shows how western democracies are failing because they are owned by vested interests. This applies to just about every one and every political flavour.
If we want to keep a world where you children and grandchildren can enjoy the oceans and the bush as we do then it is beyond time to kill off these ancient technologies and transform industry to use clean and sustainable energy.
