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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFracked Up
SAN FRANCISCO The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.
Hydraulic fracturing, or the drilling technique commonly known as fracking, has been used for decades to blast huge volumes of water, fine sand and chemicals into the ground to crack open valuable shale formations.
But now, as energy companies vie to exploit vast reserves west of the Mississippi, fracking's new frontier is expanding to the same lands where crops have shriveled and waterways have dried up due to severe drought.
In Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, the vast majority of the counties where fracking is occurring are also suffering from drought, according to an Associated Press analysis of industry-compiled fracking data and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's official drought designations. ..................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/16/colorado-fracking_n_3450170.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
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marmar
Jun 2013
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)1. What fraction of the water used to irrigate crops is used in fracking?
rickford66
(5,498 posts)2. vertical Fricking has been used for decades but ..
horizontal fracking has only been used for several years and has many more problems than vertical. The industry likes to use the vertical fracking data and history to promote the "safety" of horizontal fracking.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)3. Thanks... I thought that was incorrect.
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