| Hydraulic fracturing causes gas to migrate and threaten life, health, safety and... |
| Written by Bluedaze: Drilling Reform for Texas | 'Texas' Sharon Wilson |
| Sunday, 30 January 2011 14:58 |
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Read the original post at its source -- including links/images where applicable. Does this sound familiar? Hydraulic fracturing was used on a gas well and now the gas has migrated up to the surface endangering the people and threatening the water supply.
Official calls well leak 'very, very worrying' And here is the Big Gas Mafia's answer: ...the industry offers assurances that concrete and tubing installed as a well is drilled will prevent leaks. It also claims there can be no contamination of groundwater because the water is near the surface, while on average shale gas is found below 2,000 metres of impermeable rock. Does this sound exactly like what happened in Palo Pinto? It also sounds a lot like what might be happening at Tim and Christine Ruggiero's place where they have the methane bubbles that light on fire. There is a problem with the Bradenhead pressure at the Aruba Petroleum well. Bradenhead pressure issues often mean a well is leaking. It is such a dangerous situation the Texas Railroad Commission threatened to shut the well down if Aruba did not get the problem contained. Aruba is out there every weekend working on that well. (You might ask why Aruba works on the well mostly on the weekends. We did too until we realized the The Texas Railroad Commission closes up shop at 5:00 PM on Friday and doesn't open again until Monday morning. That way Aruba can do anything they want to at the wellsite with only the landowners and neighbors to witness it. The landowners and neighbors have to stay vigilant and keep watch to protect themselves from this irresponsible operator.) Maybe this is what happened to the waterwells in Parker County after Range Resources fracked. 2 + 2 = ? The well in the article is in Quebec and the operator is Talisman. (Isn't Talisman is trying to drill in Colleyville and Flower Mound?) Quebec seems to have a lower tolerance for these kind of disasters than Americans do. After Environment Minister Pierre Arcand said last week Quebec's budding shale-gas industry was "not in control of the situation," inspectors from his department issued infraction notices to Canbriam and to Talisman Energy Inc. for a leak at its Leclercville well. Quebec is now threatening to ban shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Go, Quebec, Go! Protect the people and their water. |


