Bill Huston’s attempt to characterize the amount of water that will be used to hydraulically fracture natural gas wells in New York State as enormous turns out to be a highly flawed “HO Scale” argument that fails on three tracks.

Our errant friend Bill Huston has been at it again on several fronts and we must confess being amused by one his recent attempts to create hysteria over water use connected with hydraulic fracturing. He does so in this blog post, where he uses trains to make a point about the amount of water employed to conduct fracturing operations in Pennsylvania, indicating they had already required enough water to fill a train of tank cars 3,000 miles long. He then goes off on a tear to suggest hydraulic fracturing in New York will use up the equivalent of Cayuga Lake or something.

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