Update on the EPA's Hydraulic Fracturing Study

From the communications dept:

"The progress report is scheduled to come out in mid December. The progress report won't have findings. It will provide more detailed information regarding the work underway to answer key study questions about the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources during the water acquisition stage. The draft report of results is scheduled for 2014 and will undergo an independent peer review."

I wonder what this means exactly? Will there be any hint regarding the EPA's intended direction?

 

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Permalink Reply by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on October 18, 2012 at 5:51am

What have you seen/heard? I think you are probably correct. They are putting a tad too big of an effort into this. Probably, like anything else, it will start out fairly minor and then expand and then become the behemoth that strangles the industry in similar fashion to the coal industry.

Permalink Reply by Kathleen on October 18, 2012 at 12:19pm
When they say water acquisition stage that means the gathering of water needed?
If yes, has anyone read of an area where too much was taken and it effected the supply? I haven't during any of my searches, but I may be totally off the mark here too in what they are talking about :0)
015334grltd9mPermalink Reply by 015334grltd9m on October 18, 2012 at 12:33pm

Redistribution, it maybe coming to a shale near you if we continue down Trotsky's path.

Permalink Reply by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on October 19, 2012 at 2:03am

The API is concerned and it sounds like a valid concern.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/262769-oil-and-gas-group-q...

The American Petroleum Institute (API) warned Thursday that EPA’s testing practices in Pavillion, Wyo., used too small a sample size to determine whether hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contributed to groundwater contamination. The group said that could have far-reaching implications for EPA's national study on that linkage.

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