How Can We Cope with the Dirty Water from Fracking?
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 06:00
in Earth & Climate
The nation's oil and gas wells produce at least nine billion liters of contaminated water per day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report. And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007. [More]