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Barnett Shale: Video Showing Hydraulic Fracturing Emissions

January 28, 2009 By TXsharon

Groups Sue EPA for Letting Big Oil Violate Clean Air Act

Reposting with video.

EPA sued over lack of oil-gas rules
Denton Record Chronicle – Denton,TX,USA
by Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe

Environmental groups are suing the EPA for

…failing to write emission rules for the oil and gas industry

thus allowing Big Oil to violate the Clean Air Act.

According to a recent Southern Methodist University peer reviewed study,

…by 2009, residents can expect 620 tons of smog-forming compounds each day from producers working in the Barnett Shale, including 33 tons per day of toxic compounds such as benzene and formaldehyde, and 33,000 equivalent tons of greenhouse gases

The following is a video of a Denton County Barnett Shale gas well undergoing hydraulic fracture.

Below is a photo taken during the day at the same location.

Sludge pits are another major source of VOCs. Texas needs legislation to require closed loop systems instead of sludge pits.

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Comments

  1. Sus says

    January 29, 2009 at 5:08 am

    So what’s up with all those RV’s and semi-trucks parked??

  2. TXsharon says

    January 29, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    They live onsite when they are drilling and fracking. Remember the sewage tank that they emptied into the sludge pit last summer. Thst was two month’s worth of sewage.

  3. Sus says

    January 29, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    I can understand living “onsite” but it looks as if their parked literally ON THE DRILLING SITE or damn close! I can’t imagine parking my vehicle that close to something like that. …and by sewage…*icky face*….are you meaning sewage from their living quarters?? Is that also illegal dumping?

  4. TXsharon says

    January 29, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    They have huge tanks in which they store the sewage while they are living onsite. Yes, this one company dumped their sewage in the sludge pit. Yes, it is illegal but Texas loves it when Bil Oil defecates on us!

  5. DivideWatch says

    February 2, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    This video doesn’t shock me at all. We live with this junk and have for six years in Western Colorado.

    TXsharon – keep on telling it like it is. Here’s to your courage and common sense.

    As a former Texan, I invite you see the Big Ugly industry dishes up on a regular basis at my website: journeyoftheforsaken.com

  6. TXsharon says

    February 2, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    Oh yes! I know your website well. Trust that I have posted a link to it on many a forum, most recently on Go Hanesville Shale. Someone on that forum asked a question about Encana and I said, “Well Lookie here!” with a link to your website. =)

  7. andalucia says

    March 14, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    I would like to know what kind of contaminants are in the air as you drive from Midland I-20 to Ft. Stockton on I-10 through Ranch Rd 1053 in SW Texas. I was driving that route Saturday late afternoon and the air got from unpleasant to almost unbearable to breathe. By the time I got to Ft. Stockton I was feeling horrible nauseated and had a thick metal flavor in my mouth. This area is flooded with Exxon and Chevron gas and oil wells. Is there any kind of air regulation in Texas for these companies at all? This is a pretty well transited road because it connects the two MAIN HIGHWAYS IN TEXAS, I10 with Interstate 20.
    Please advice,
    EO

  8. Anonymous says

    May 6, 2011 at 2:23 am

    The key words in the last comment are "as you are driving". You are happy to use the oil but dont want any land disturbed to get it. For every bad story about oil and gas wells there are ten that have no major problems. Wells can and are drilled responsibly most of the time.

  9. TXsharon says

    May 6, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    No they aren't "drilled responsibly most of the time."

    We live here. We watch the drilling closely. We would say they are "drilled responsibly RARELY if ever."

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