Out of the Horse's Mouth

It is certainly comforting to see that there will be plenty of shale gas in years to come from other countries. That means that we can slow things down in the Marcellus, and take the time to make certain that shale gas development is safe and not a threat to the environment. No need to rush, now that there is all this gas on the way, is there?

According to many articles (many by the gas industry themselves) the amount of water needed to frack a well is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 million gallons. Figures on returned fluid can vary from 26% to 60% or more recovered from the well. If we take the low figure of 26%, then at LEAST 1.3 million gallons of waste water will be produced , NOT the 800,000 gallons stated in this story. Is there something wrong with the gas industry that they absolutely HATE to give accurate numbers on anything? They always seem to lowball everything, maybe because they know that using MILLIONS of gallons of water for fracking is a big problem, but 800,000 "sounds better", and maybe they can get a pass. The fact remains though, that millions and more millions of gallons of water will be needed to liberate all this shale gas around the world-- fresh clean water-- that is in short supply in many nations. Also interesting to note in this story the "new technology" that came on the scene in the past 10 years....maybe all those folks talking about high volume hydraulic fracturing being 50, 60, 80 years old might be wrong... and this was out of the horse's mouth after all. How so? Well, you can see a chart of the relationships Clean Skies Television has with the gas industry below:

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