they relayed their stories of natural gas drilling in Colorado‚ Wyoming‚ Utah and Texas‚ among others. He spoke with residents who have experienced a variety of chronic health problems directly traceable to contamination of their air‚ of their water wells or of surface water. In some instances‚ the residents are reporting that they obtained a court injunction or settlement monies from gas companies to replace the affected water supplies with potable water or water purification kits. The film won
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of ways to contain the wastewater; however‚ some companies believe that using deep well injection as a method of disposal are actually quite wrong. In the US some fracking companies dispose their wastes in deep wells that lie underneath the surface. It has even been directly related to causing earthquakes. This happens in several states in the United States‚ however‚ Pennsylvania has outlawed the use of deep well injection (Easton). As a result‚ the fracking companies are forced to transport the
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FINAL PROJECT REPORT ON CHAPTER SIX TRANSITION‚ DEVELOPMENT‚ AND RENEWAL BAPCO CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Main purpose of the chapter 3. The Major changes in BAPCO 4. BAPCO’s life-cycle 5. Transition: The Merger 6. Our approach 7. Organization Renewal 8. Conclusion 1. INTRODUCTION The company that we have chosen to compare with the chapter and write the report on is BAPCO. Following is a brief introduction about the company: BAPCO‚ wholly owned by the Government
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banned due to the cancerous chemicals that are injected into the shale rocks‚ which contaminates the water that we drink and runs into our homes. In the U.S.‚ there are more than 500‚000 active natural gas wells. Each of these wells requires 400 tanker tucks in order to carry water as well as supplies to the site where fracking will occur. For each of these individual fracking jobs‚ 1 to 8 million gallons of water is used. About 40‚000 gallons of chemicals (per one fracturing job) are used and
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currently the best and most efficient way to drill for these substances. Although this technique seems amazing‚ there are many flaws. To begin the Fracking process‚ a well is drilled a mile or more below the surface of the earth. The well goes down thousands of feet and then turns horizontally into a rock formation. After the well is cased and cemented‚ holes are made in the horizontal part of the pipe to allow millions of gallons of liquid to be released into the rock formations. This liquid is
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resource in the U.S. Fracking fluid contains water‚ salt‚ sand‚ and hazardous industrial chemicals. This fluid is injected at high pressure underground into geologic formations. The salty water‚ sand‚ and chemical mixture forces natural gas up through the well bore to the surface for collection through pipelines. It is currently being used in the U.S. in the states of North Dakota‚ Pennsylvania‚ New York‚ Texas‚ and Louisiana. As for Europe it is being used primarily in central Europe going eastward and
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in the well throughout drilling process. * One of the most critical roles of drilling mud is as a lubricant. While drilling process took place‚ there are lots of friction and heat been generated. So mud is needed in order to cool down the temperature and also to reduce the frictions. * The mud also will collect all the debris or the drilled cuttings from the wellbore and transport it to the surface. * The other function of drilling mud is to maintain the stability of the well in terms
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Environmental Issues Page 9: Closure Hydraulic Fracturing and Why It’s a Concern Today. Hydraulic fracturing‚ commonly referred to as fracking‚ has been a hot topic of debate in the United States of America since its inception in 1947 and first well drill in 1949. The United States was the first country to perform hydraulic fracturing to tap into a previously unavailable resource‚ natural gases deep underground in very small micro veins that spider web across a large area. The concerns are‚ and
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various issue environmental and ethical issues. On 20th of April 2010‚ an explosion of the drilling rig caused the oil spill close to the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico‚ in which 11 employees were killed. It took around five months for the oil well to exert no further risk and be concealed‚ where many controversies arose throughout the period. BBC‚ 2010. Timeline: BP Oil Spill. BBC. Viewed 27/08/12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10656239 During the incident The US Government initially
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42 miles off the coast of Louisiana and was estimated of leaking 3.19 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. The well was located 5‚000 feet beneath the ocean surface. It took them 87 days to finally cap the well. At that point the damage had already been done. Oil reached the shores of Alabama‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi and Florida. This essay investigates the causes of this explosion as well as the effect it had on the ecosystem along with the clean up methods used for this disaster and what we could
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