In parched states, fracking's thirst grows
Soon, folks, it will be too late. The point is soon approaching when the clock can't be turned back. Those on the take wanted the fracking money and everyone and everything else will pay. People, animals, the environment...
In parched states, fracking's thirst grows
Greeley, Colo., sells water to the oil and gas companies that have brought a drilling boom to town. Some residents wonder whether it will run out.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-colorado-fracking-20140220,0,3689568.story#ixzz2tro0IceN
the Los Angeles Times
By Jenny Deam
February 19, 2014, 5:22 p.m.
GREELEY, Colo. — In this parched farming region, where the land flattens out and every drop of water is precious, another player has lined up at the spigot.
On a recent sunny afternoon, a huge cylindrical tanker truck rolled up to a red city fire hydrant and driver Jose Ofornio hopped out. With well-practiced efficiency he hooked hose to hydrant and began to fill. And fill.
"It's really bad in the mornings," Ofornio said, noting that trucks often have to wait in line for their turn. This was his third trip of the day. In less than 15 minutes, thousands of gallons of water gushed into his tank and was shuttled 50 miles to a drilling site, where it would be blasted into the ground along with sand and chemicals to free a bounty of oil and gas in a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
According to the petroleum industry, most new wells in this country now use fracking to coax an average of 250 barrels of oil or 1.3 million cubic feet of natural gas from the ground per day. But that can't happen without water — about 3 million to 8 million gallons per well before extraction begins... MORE
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