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Photo credit: Roger Smith @rjsphoto
Stop the Frack Attack National Summit at Holiday Inn - Stapleton in Denver, Oct 3-5
Caterpillar V-12 engine powers Halliburton mobile hydraulic fracturing systems. These three are named Michelle, Julie and Cher. Refueling near Oakley, KS, these rigs work the Niobrara shale formation.
Anti-Fracking Critical Mass Bike Ride and Chevron Blockade - Saturday March 30th
"American oil giant Chevron wants to build a destructive pipeline across unceded indigenous territory to carry fracked gas to the coast, and export climate change to the world. We say NO. We do not need fracked gas, we do not want another pipeline and we will not stand by as colonial governments and greedy corporations push us over the climate catastrophe cliff edge."
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Global Day of Action against Chevron and the Pacific Trail Pipeline
"Chevron is the new corporate face of the Pacific Trail Pipeline project, having recently become 50/50 partners with Apache to build a fracking gas pipeline across 500 kilometres of largely unceded land, from Summit Lake to LNG plants planned for Kitimat."
www.facebook.com/events/137069669801177/
"Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing includes the potential contamination of ground water, risks to air quality, the potential migration of gases and hydraulic fracturing chemicals to the surface, the potential mishandling of waste, and the health effects of these, like cancer."
"It has been reported that Industry and governmental pressure have made it difficult to conduct and report the results of comprehensive studies of hydraulic fracturing. EPA investigations into the oil and gas industry's environmental impact have been narrowed in scope and/or had negative findings removed due to industry and government pressure."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_hydraulic_f...
Video of the Chevron Bike Blockade on unceded Coast Salish territories;
Photo credit: Roger Smith @rjsphoto
Stop the Frack Attack National Summit at Holiday Inn - Stapleton in Denver, Oct 3-5
El diputado regional del PP, Iñigo Fernández, ofreció una rueda de prensa sobre el "fracking" en la sede regional del Partido Popular de Cantabria.
Photo credit: Roger Smith @rjsphoto
Stop the Frack Attack National Summit at Holiday Inn - Stapleton in Denver, Oct 3-5
Phil Thornhill, organiser of Camp Frack, speaks at a demo in Preston.
Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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Fracking Aruba Petroleum Wright 7H & 8H on Tim and Christine Ruggiero's property.
Taken by Tim Ruggiero
Caterpillar V-12 engine powers Halliburton mobile hydraulic fracturing systems. These three are named Michelle, Julie and Cher. Refueling near Oakley, KS, these rigs work the Niobrara shale formation.
I asked Natural Resources Wales in relation to fracking / unconventional gas extraction
"Can you tell me what are the implications of High Radon presence in the Vale Of Glamorgan in relation to flow back waste water and cuttings waste?"
Response from Natural Resources Wales
"Natural gas, whether from conventional oil and gas wells, or from unconventional sources such as shale beds or coal seams, includes some radon. Radon from these sources was exempt from permitting by the Natural Gas Exemption Order, 2002 and in 2011 was excluded from regulation under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010. This was on the basis of its low risk, widespread use and that it was not amenable to regulation. In 2001, the risk to the public from radon by burning natural gas was assessed by the National Radiological Protection Board (now Public Health England (PHE)).
Drill cuttings and drilling muds will contain naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) at the concentrations normally found at those depths. Deep drilling is undertaken for a variety of reasons, for coal and mineral exploration, water, geothermal energy, etc. The wastes from all of these drilling operations will contain some NORM, as does all soil and rocks whether deep, or on the surface. Internationally, these drill cuttings have not proven to be of significance for radiation protection and are not controlled as radioactive wastes, they are generally classed as mining wastes. Radon is a noble gas and there will be traces of radon dissolved in any water generated by drilling, including flow-back water. Flow-back water is collected in tanks on site and transferred to treatment plants elsewhere by road tankers, there will inevitably be some losses of radon from these tanks, but we are confident that this will not be of significance to public health (note. radon is present naturally in all of the air we breath). Similarly, there will be traces radon generated by the radium in the drill cuttings, but this will be even less significant.
During production of coal bed methane or shale gas, the principal source of radon is the natural gas itself, most of which will be captured and used, but there will some losses of methane (“fugitive emissions”) local to the well, as well as the possibility of short-term flaring of natural gas, this gas will include some radon, but in either case it will be rapidly dispersed in the atmosphere. The impact of the radon from fugitive emissions and flaring has yet to be fully assessed, but is not likely to be of significance to public health. “High levels” of radon in the Vale of Glamorgan are not foreseen from this source.
PHE have recently published a consultation draft on the health implications of chemical and radioactive pollutants from shale gas extraction, and this makes some reference to radon. We suggest that further information on the implication for public health can be obtained from Public Health England through Public Health Wales.
I trust this addresses your concerns.”
My next thoughts or questions in response...
• Being a high radon area, does this effect the “norm”?
• Are there treatment plants available to treat the flow back, if so, currently where...as the North West doesn't have that facility?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25902272
• To what scale would that facility have to be to treat flow-back on currently sold unconventional gas licenses in Wales?
• Does that scale of facility already exist?
• Is it the case the deeper you drill the "norm" of excepted radon & radiation in the water & cuttings increase?
• When deposited at scale/ concentration elsewhere surely this surpass the norm, for open air exposure?
• How is the waste water treated to remove all chemicals. And then where does the disposal of that by product (contaminated sludge) go?
Fracking water very hard to clean energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/04/fracking-wat...
www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/10971603.MP_demands_an...
• Is the radioactive, radon flow back and cuttings just left to disperse in open air ever?
• At cost effective production scale, what are the considerations towards local populations health in regards to existing scientific studies. As none exist in the UK?
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/31/natural-gas-birth-defec...
Acting on behalf of Frack Free Wales. www.facebook.com/pages/Frack-Free-Wales/399311250153926
When I saw this image in a permaculture garden in an old oil drum I new it would translate.
photo by @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh
The residents of the Riverdale Motor Home Park, on the banks on the Susquahanna River, face eviction from their homes to make way for a fracking pump station run by Aqua America in Jersey Shore, PA on June 4, 2012.
Fracking opponents rally outside the Boulder County Courthouse. County Commissioners were considering extending a moratorium on drilling permits. The current moratorium expires in June. (5/13/13)
Caterpillar V-12 engine powers Halliburton mobile hydraulic fracturing systems. These three are named Michelle, Julie and Cher. Refueling near Oakley, KS, these rigs work the Niobrara shale formation.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Dr. Susan Brantley, distinguished professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University will present “Water Resource Impacts During Unconventional Shale Gas Development with Hydrofracking: The Pennsylvania Experience” at Kansas State University, Oct. 15 in 1018 Throckmorton Hall.
"My Generation Fuel" to the tune of "My Generation":
"People try to put us down (Talkin'bout my generation)
Just because we frack around (Talkin'bout my generation)
All we want is nat'ral gas (Talkin'bout my generation)
Yoko Ono's riding our ass (Talkin'bout my generation)
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in Annapolis to rally against immediate fracking in Maryland.
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Stop the Frack Attack National Summit at Holiday Inn - Stapleton in Denver, Colorado. Oct 3-5, 2015
Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in Annapolis to rally against immediate fracking in Maryland.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith