leeper wrote:
Fracking for oil will cause gas to get into the water supply. It also gets into creeks. That is why folks are against oil shale fracking. It also causes gas to come out of the ground. Has there been any oil fracking in the area of the campground?
Really, even if the end of that drill pipe is 5000 ft under grade? Folks need to get their science right before making comments on new technologies.
Part of the reason fracking gets a bad rap is because of Eastern gas and oil wells that exist closer to the surface or are intermingled in the aquifer level. Problems in Eastern PA and NY were the start of this. The other part is how we like to label things and pass rumor along.
In current shale oil developments where fracking takes place like the Bakken reserve in ND, there is nearly a mile of solid rock and soil between the fracking level and the aquifer.
