It’s a scam. We should not be investing in recovering Lithium from wastewater that we should not be creating in the first place–full stop.
Oh Wait, That stuff might be valuable someday
Produced water, now expensive to dispose of, may become a valuable byproduct in the future. So the industry is pleased to have won a court battle over who owns it. I wonder if they’ll pony up the cash to pay for the harm it does when it pollutes local wells and streams.
Texas Supreme Court Rules on Produced Water Ownership – Inside Climate News
The justices ruled Friday that the company holding the oil and gas lease also lays claim to the produced water. The ruling comes as more companies are seeking to turn a profit on what has long been considered a vexing waste stream.
Produced Water is a Hazardous Byproduct of Fracking
The energy industry is notorious for doing the bare minimum in terms of ethical and legal protection of the environment. Here’s more news of environmental concerns.
More Quakes Reported
Fracking Advocates are Relentless
They want to overturn the ban on fracking in the Delaware Watershed. Support Delaware Riverkeeper!
Non-profits advocate for maintaining fracking ban in Delaware River watershed
The non-profits urged the commission, during public comment, not to overturn a ban on fracking that was implemented in 2021.
Texas is making a big mistake. (Not their first.) Shall we stop buying food grown in Texas?
Is your Town Protecting Your Property?
Land use ordinances and other municipal constraints can be employed to protect citizens from the ravages of fracking. Read about it.
Who Needs Protection?
So you’d like to contribute the water your wells produce to help alleviate the water shortage, but you need a bit of protection? Why?
Oil companies want protection as Texas considers allowing treated fracking water released into rivers
As the state grapples with a threatened water supply, industry and lawmakers have invested millions in research to clean the toxic backwash for use in agriculture.
Yes, I am being facetious. Big Oil and Gas have a terrible record for social and environmental responsibility. Giving them protection from liability would be naive and stupid. The cost of insurance, the cost of cleaning up the toxic byproducts should already be priced in, but it isn’t. That’s just another example of the hidden ways the public subsidizes fossil energy.
Quakes
ODNR links earthquakes to fracking operations in Noble County – Farm and Dairy
Several earthquakes in Noble County, Ohio were linked to hydraulic fracturing operations at a well pad; the Ohio Department of Natural Resources halted operations.
Ohio fracking operation suspended in connection to recent earthquakes
An ODNR official said some of the quakes were strong enough to be felt.
It’s called a “permit” because our society is accepting as necessary, something that is not otherwise desirable.
Scarce Water – Another Hidden Cost of Fracking
Texas Oil and Gas Companies Drill With River Water During Extreme Drought – Inside Climate News
Oil and gas companies have used billions of gallons of Rio Grande and Pecos River water for drilling in the past four years, according to an exclusive Inside Climate News analysis.
Billions of gallons were contaminated during the “extreme drought,” and for what? Cheap fuel. Only it’s not cheap. The price at the pump doesn’t include anything for the harm done in making that fuel or by burning it.
Chris Wright
Wright’s critics see his views on global warming as a dangerous and self-serving misinterpretation of climate science. In their view, the fundamental role of fossil fuels in modern life is precisely the problem. Without a rapid shift to other energy sources, humanity risks undoing the types of progress Wright and his allies love to celebrate.
Don’t call it ‘climate denial,’ Secretary of Energy Chris Wright claims he’s preaching ‘climate realism’
As a Denver-based fracking executive, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright honed a message on global warming: yes, it’s real, but it’s a manageable side effect of modern life.
More and cheaper fossil fuel is the wrong direction to take. The damage caused by the use of fossil fuels and products made from them is conveniently externalized. Gas and oil are cheap because the user does not pay for the life-cycle cost, only for the initial production and distribution costs. And, in many hidden ways, the production cost is subsidized. Though he doesn’t mean it this way, true “climate realism” would assess the full life cycle cost of the fuel and include that as a penalty tax. But how do you price loss of coastline, extinction of species, wildfires, floods, and extreme weather? What’s the value of the casualties, what could compensate the child with asthma?
We aren’t even sure that humanity will survive what’s coming.