Pennsylvania drilling wastes might overwhelm Ohio injection wells

[limpyhobbler]

The volume of drilling wastes from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale is growing and threatening to overwhelm existing waste-handling infrastructure in Ohio and other states, according to a study released Tuesday.

Ohio’s 179 injection wells for disposing of briny waste might not be sufficient for the Pennsylvania waste, plus wastes from Ohio’s developing Utica shale, said Brian Lutz, assistant professor of biogeochemistry at Kent State University, who led the analysis while he was a postdoctoral research associate at Duke University.

The volume of Marcellus wastewater has grown 570 percent from 2004 to 2011 due to increased shale gas production in Pennsylvania, Lutz said.

“The overall volume of water that now has to be transported and treated is immense,” he said. “It threatens to overwhelm the region’s wastewater-disposal infrastructure capacity.”
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via http://www.ohio.com/news/local/pennsylvania-drilling-wastes-might-overwhelm-ohio-injection-wells-1.367102

[hedgehog]

1. More news here - an oldie but goodie!

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/09/nation/la-na-fracking-quake-20120310

[2naSalit]

2. so don't forget

the whole premise here is to pollute all the water that is ubiquetous so that the pluotcrats can privatize what's left, contaminate it with whatever and sell it to us to survive or not. Make sense?

[Nihil]

3. "Briny waste"? What a delicate euphemism ...

... rather like calling the input to a sewage farm "slightly-used freshwater" ...

[limpyhobbler]

4. sounds better than radioactive sludgefeast