Tag: hydraulic fracturing
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New study examines impacts of fracking on water supplies worldwide
Credit: Rosa, et al. (2018) Using hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and natural gas from shale is a common technique used worldwide. Because the technique requires large amounts of water, however, it raises the question of whether it could lead to water shortages or competition with other water uses, especially agriculture. In a new paper…
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Hydraulic fracturing negatively impacts infant health
Map: Locations of births and fractured wells in Pennsylvania. Credit: Currie, Greenstone, Meckel, Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1603021 From North Dakota to Ohio to Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has transformed small towns into energy powerhouses. While some see the new energy boom as benefiting the local economy and decreasing U.S. reliance on foreign…
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Pennsylvania watershed contaminated with radioactive material and endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Hydraulic fracturing has enabled a domestic oil and gas boom in the USA, but its rapid growth has raised questions about what to do with the billions of gallons of wastewater that result. Researchers now report that treating the wastewater and releasing it into surface waters has led to the contamination of a Pennsylvania watershed…
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Lawsuit accuses Range Resources and lab of doctoring water test results
This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas was underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, PA. A water testing company that worked with Range Resources to evaluate whether or not…
