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Fracking suggestions
Speaking of fracking (link), a team of Duke University Scientists has put together some suggestions if North Carolina decides to pursue this particular type of natural gas extraction. A press release summarizes the authors's suggestions this way:
- Securing baseline data on groundwater prior to shale gas production and at each stage of the drilling process
- Funding for regulatory programs and an agency to carry them out
- Planning for withdrawals from area water supplies related to the production
- Minimizing the risks of spills and contamination caused by equipment failure and human error by implementing safety requirements
- Thinking through options for the disposal and treatment of wastewater resulting from the hydraulic fracturing process
- Assessing the impacts on air quality and assuring attainment of federal ground-level ozone standards
- Requiring some degree of disclosure regarding the chemicals used in fracturing fluid.
Click here for more on the paper (link).
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