This is almost too good! For those who are so inclined, go to youtube.com and type in gas well in the search box. One of the first results will be a video from Penn State Extension in Wayne County. It was made in Lycoming County on February 20, 2008. A couple of items of note are: the amount of equipment “needed” to “frac” a well, the really muddy access roads and the statement that 800,000 gallons of water was used in the process. They also show a lined retention pond. There is no mention of what happens to the debris created in this process.
Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QefLQKLb5co
Is it just me or is 800,000 gallons of our good Susquehanna County water being used (presumably on each and every well drilled) a whole lot of water? Won’t this be potentially extremely damaging to our water supply, both in quantity and quality? Maybe 800,000 gallons won’t be used for every well, some may be less, some may be more depending on the well depth and strata drilled through.
If Susquehanna County is anything at all like Fayette County, we can eventually expect to have wells numbering in the 1,000’s. For the record, Fayette County has roughly 4,000 active wells.
So what is 4,000 wells times 800,000 gallons each? 3,200,000,000 or 3.2 Billion gallons. Now that all has to go somewhere. Will the retention ponds be enough to keep the debris out of the almighty Chesapeake Bay? Got to make sure those crabs are protected at any price to Susquehanna County.
Watch the video and post your comments here. Oh yes, there are several others, including one where two guys walk around one and note the sound as well as the SMELL emanating from the site.
Do we have any idea at all what we are in for? Of course not, we just smell the money. Shortly, we will ALL be smelling the gas.
By the way, does anyone have any idea what this will do to our hunting here?
Your comments?
The deer and the antelope play around wells in other parts of the world, why wouldn’t they here? Cell towers don’t bother them, and I have even seen pictures of deer grazing next to windmills…I can’t remember ever seeing moving parts on a gas well…now tractors..they are a different story..oh yes, automobiles too…considering the size of the buck that wiped out the front end of my car last year, I would have to say that I personally have impacted the hunting more than drilling for natural gas, sorry hunters, it was a trophy buck too!
Smell the Natural gas??? Last i knew, natural gas was ODERLESS. LOL
I agree that natural gas is odorless. But what comes out of the ground has any number of impurities which certainly could contribute to odor.
Again, are you a property owner here, or a landman?