There’s a new website called…
…but it doesn’t say anything about hydraulic fracturing. That’s a shame because, while Denton is on water restrictions, Barnett Shale gas drillers waste billions of gallons of water.
Of the metered sources in the Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District, Barnett Shale drillers used 1,146,598,272 gallons of water and paid .00022 cents per gallon in 2009.
We get a ticket for watering our grass at the wrong time while industry gets unlimited cheap or free water. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for conserving water, but I conservation measures should apply equally across the board to everyone.
What they don’t waste they ruin.
Here’s a contact at Save North Texas Water
If you have questions or need more information about water conservation efforts in your area, please contact TRWD’s Water Conservation Coordinator Mark Olson. He can be reached at mark.olson@trwd.com or 817-335-2491.
I think we need to email him and suggest he add information about drilling.
About Sharon Wilson
Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.
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When someone over waters their lawn, or has a faulty/leaky sprinkler head or similar, water is 'wasted' – but, for the most part, that 'wasted' water is returned back into the cycle. It may very well drain to a stream or lake or even back to the municipal water supply, or even just drain into and saturate nearby land. When gas companies use water, how much is returned back into the cycle? Hoew many hundreds of millions are permanently and forever contaminated with their precious patented carcinogenic brew?