Seanad debates
Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Second Stage
10:30 am
David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I am just finishing. The research continued:
In Bradford County, Pennsylvania, a well blowout resulted in a spill of approximately 10,000 gal (38,000 L) of produced water into a tributary of Towanda Creek [...] The largest volume spill identified in this assessment occurred in North Dakota, where approximately 2.9 million gal (11 million L) of produced water spilled from a broken pipeline and impacted surface water and groundwater.
That is an astonishing amount of water to lose. I cannot think of better arguments to reject fracturing in this country.
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