<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good stuff Peter. Haven't Alberta, BC & Quebec have been most associated with F'n fracking? But Ontario? It should be checked out.<div>Robert M<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 9-Mar-12, at 11:25 AM, Peter Kofler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">Interesting article on fracking by Bill McKibben. <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/why-not-frack/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px; background-color: white; ">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/why-not-frack/</a><br><br><div>The following excerpted lines caught my attention, which might be pertinent to our region:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 113.6pt; margin-bottom: 10.8pt; margin-left: 3cm; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; ">A second concern has to do with the damage being done to rivers and streams—and the water supply for homes and industries—by the briny soup that pours out of the fracking wells in large volume. Most of the chemical-laced slick water injected down the well will stay belowground, but for every million gallons, 200,000 to 400,000 gallons will be regurgitated back to the surface, bringing with it, McGraw writes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 113.6pt; margin-bottom: 10.8pt; margin-left: 3cm; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 113.6pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 3cm; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; ">not only the chemicals it included in the first place, but traces of the oil-laced drilling mud, and all the other noxious stuff that was already trapped down there in the rock: iron and chromium, radium and salt—lots of salt.</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Some enterprising drilling companies have, Urbina wrote, “found ready buyers [for wastewater] in communities that spread it on roads for de-icing in the winter and for dust suppression in the summer. When ice melts or rain falls, the waste can run off roads and end up in the drinking supply.”</span></div></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span style="line-height: 14px; ">Does anyone out there know if there are local safeguards against "enterprising drilling companies" or intermediaries selling drilling wastewater/frackwash to regional procurement people/snow removal operators/dust control service contractors under some presumably environmentally benign or techno-obfuscatory name like "brine fluids", probably at really reasonable prices? We're close enough to New York State, Pennsylvania and other states where fracking is currently practiced to serve as potentially unwitting disposal markets for this probable toxic waste. </span></div><div><span style="line-height: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 14px; ">I'm aware of the somewhat circuitous route by which hydrofluorosilicic acid got "recycled" from phosphate fertilizer industry scrubber liquor toxic waste to water fluoridation chemical. I suspect there's a strong incentive for fracking companies or their subcontractors to use alternative disposal methods for frackwash to avoid high disposal costs, what with currently relatively low natural gas prices.</span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>All mailing list<br><a href="mailto:All@gren.ca">All@gren.ca</a><br><a href="http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca">http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>