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Title: New study uncovers a jaw-dropping fact about water and natural gas "fracking"
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Published: Jan 15, 2014
Author: Matt Badiali
Post Date: 2014-01-15 19:48:17 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: fracking
Views: 291
Comments: 12

New study uncovers a jaw-dropping fact about water and natural gas "fracking"

By Matt Badiali

editor, Resource Report

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

For every gallon of water used in fracking, Texas saves 33 gallons overall. You read that right… fracking saves water.

Let me explain…

That was the result of a recent University of Texas at Austin water use study. It's critical information because Texas is just coming out of a massive drought.

In 2011, 98.2% of the state suffered from severe to exceptional drought. It was the hottest, driest year on record.

The current drought is the second longest in Texas (back to 1899). And water is critical to Texas' economy. Agriculture (including timber) accounts for $20 billion per year of the state's economy. Cattle accounts for $10.5 billion of that. If you don't have water for cows, you have dead cows…

That's why the University studied water intensive industries like fracking and electric power production. Power generation accounts for 40% of freshwater consumption in the U.S.

The water use of fracking is highly visible and controversial. It takes about four million to six million gallons of water to frack a well in Texas. That makes it an easy target for politicians and activists.

According to the research, new natural gas power plants are far more efficient than older, coal-fired plants. Coal plants require water for evaporative cooling. New natural gas power plants use a whole lot less. The new plants save 25 to 50 times the amount of water used to extract the gas.

The University's researchers studied all of the power plants in Texas. The study concluded that if all the 423 plants in Texas burned coal, they would use an extra 32 billion gallons of water per year.

Water use is one of the largest knocks on fracking. This study's results show that it isn't true. I remain a huge proponent of fracking.


Poster Comment:

Fracking saves water? Well, if they say so. I don't know much about it. ;)

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Convoluted thinking but in long haul author is correct.

Locally, the fracking water is run thru filtering process and returned to river.

Cynicom  posted on  2014-01-15   19:55:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Cynicom (#1)

Locally, the fracking water is run thru filtering process and returned to river.

So do all the petrochemicals.

Fracking is killing. In the literal sense.

Corps care not if water tables get contaminated. They do. People are told to move, if any die or suffer the oil companies settle with em or kill em.

THE END>

titorite  posted on  2014-01-15   21:14:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#7. To: titorite (#6)

So do all the petrochemicals.

They built a multi million dollar filtering operation, within city limits.

All that comes out is water. City drinking water is taken from a well adjacent to the river 1/4 mile down stream.

City, state and federal beagles all have monitoring facilities and all find NOTHING. Water is sampled above the plant and below at the same time. Never been a problem.

I live with fracked wells all around me. Never had a problem, no one, no way.

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