Tag: hydraulic fracking

Fracking and Water Usage

By Rick Behning, PE One of the concerns related to the fracking process is water usage.  Kenneth Carlson, co-director of the Colorado Energy-Water Consortium, was interviewed for a recent Greeley Tribune article.  The article explains that 0.1 percent of water diverted for beneficial use will be used for fracking over the 5 year span from… Read more »

What to Do with Fracking’s Flowback Water?

By Baseline Water/Wastewater Engineering Approximately one million gallons of “flowback” water return to the surface, and is typically hauled to a disposal site where it is injected thousands of feet into the ground, a process environmentalists and some residents of oil fields worry may contaminate ground water.  Many agree that this practice is not sustainable… Read more »

How to Invest for Potential Fracking Regulation

The following article was published on www.bakkenoil.org on January 23, 2012. Michael Filloon of Seeking Alpha has a five-part article series on investing for potential of EPA regulation of fracking as a result of public concerns about water usage and contamination. Below is a synopsis of his excellent analysis, but for an in-depth assessment of how… Read more »