A Liquid Industrial Waste plant has been proposed for Lake Township, PA. The owners and partners of the proposed plant have sought a zoning variance from the Luzerne County zoning board.
FRACK WATER RECYCLING LUZERNE COUNTY: New dumping ground for the Fossil Fuel Industry? Presented by Dory Hippauf, 2/19/2014 My name is Dory Hippauf. I am not an expert, nor do I have experience in the fossil fuel industry. I am head of the Research Committee for the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, a Steering Committee member for the Shale Justice Coalition, and I blog about the fossil fuel industry at No Fracking Way.us. You may have noticed I mentioned the fossil fuel industry and not the natural gas industry. This is because the energy sector as a whole are not only drilling and fracking for natural gas, but also for natural gas liquids and oil. So to encompass it all, I refer to this as the fossil fuel industry. Late last week we learned of a proposed Frack Water Recycle plant to be built in Lake Township. In this presentation, I will tell you what I have learned about recycling frack water and what we don’t know. There are radio and tv ads produced by the American Natural Gas Association, also known as ANGA, which is a front group for the gas and oil corporations. In the ad, ANGA asks us to think about it. I am going to ask you to think about it too, and then think about it again. 1
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FRACK WATER RECYCLING
LUZERNE COUNTY: New dumping ground for the Fossil Fuel Industry?
Presented by Dory Hippauf, 2/19/2014
My name is Dory Hippauf. I am not an expert, nor do I have experience in the fossil fuel industry. I am head of the Research Committee for the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, a Steering Committee member for the Shale Justice Coalition, and I blog about the fossil fuel industry at No Fracking Way.us.
You may have noticed I mentioned the fossil fuel industry and not the natural gas industry. This is because the energy sector as a whole are not only drilling and fracking for natural gas, but also for natural gas liquids and oil. So to encompass it all, I refer to this as the fossil fuel industry.
Late last week we learned of a proposed Frack Water Recycle plant to be built in Lake Township. In this presentation, I will tell you what I have learned about recycling frackwater and what we don’t know. There are radio and tv ads produced by the American Natural Gas Association, also known as ANGA, which is a front group for the gas and oil corporations. In the ad, ANGA asks us to think about it. I am going to ask you to think about it too, and then think about it again.
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Article I, Section 27, of Pennsylvania’s state constitution, referred to by the Court as the Environmental Rights Amendment, was approved byPennsylvania voters in 1971 and provides that:
The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.
Per Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille, Pennsylvania Supreme Court:
“By any responsible account, the exploitation of the Marcellus Shale Formation will produce a detrimental effect on the environment, on the people, their children, and future generations, and potentially on the public purse, perhaps rivaling the environmental effects of coalextraction.”
This is Article 1, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania state constitution. It’s been often cited by many groups concerned about the fossil fuel industry’s activities in Pennsylvania.
Next is a quote from Chief Justice Ronald Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the decision upholding local communities power to control their own zoning, which ACT 13 attempted to strip.
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Per Citizen’s Voice Article dated Feb. 14, 2014:
•Luzerne County Planning Commission Acting Director Nancy Snee said the facility is slated for the 4-P Realty property off Meeker Outlet Road.
•Waveco Energy plans to build the plant on land leased from the 605-acre 4-P Realty property, which county records show is owned by the partnership of Michael A. Patrician, Rodney J. Passeri, Joseph J. Passeri Jr. and John Passeri.
•Snee said there wouldn't be any gas drilling-related activity on the 4-P Realty property. "There's no drilling going on there," she said. "Just bring the water in; a couple days later, take the water out."
According to documents filed with the county:
•Waveco plans to have up to 30 settling and storage tanks to hold the used fracking water until it can be returned to drilling sites for reuse. They will be 45 feet by 10 feet with a capacity of 20,000 gallons each.
•These tanks will be cleaned out periodically, and sediment and other such matter "will be handled and removed according to all applicable state and federal environmental requirements."
•The fenced-in site would take up less than an acre and have controlled access points with security monitoring. Trucks would be registered and undergo a radiation inspection before unloading.
•Trained personnel would be on site during hours of operation, which would be between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., and the company anticipates fewer than 25 truck trips per week in the initial phases of the operation.
•Snee said there would not be a physical building to house the facility. The only structure would be a caretaker's shack, she said.
These are excerpts from the Citizen’s Voice article dated Feb 14. I’ll be going through these as part of the presentation.
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According to Snee:
"Just bring the water in; a couple days later, take the water out."
Just WATER?
If it’s JUST WATER why does it need to be treated?
Luzerne County Planning Commission Acting Director Nancy Snee calls it “just water”. If it’s “just water” why does it need to be treated? With all due respect to Acting Director Snee, she doesn’t know frack about frack water.
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Waveco site plan submitted to the Luzerne County Zoning Board. This plan shows 28 storage tanks. Citizen’s Voice article reported 30 storage tanks. We are unable to confirm, but we’ve been told the version submitted to DEP calls for 50 tanks.
FRACK WATER
This is a photo of a holding pond for frack water at a drill site. According to spokes people for the Marcellus Shale Coalition and related fossil fuel front groups, these holding ponds don’t exist, because the industry is recycling 100% of their frack water. How much are they really recycling? Numbers range from less than 20% to 60%, depends on who’s reporting the numbers.
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FRACK WATER: Initial mix of chemicals, sand and water used for fracking.
FLOWBACK WATER: Frack Water which returns immediately following the fracking of a well. (approx 20%-30%)
PRODUCED WATER: Frack Water which has been in the ground and mixed with naturally occurring materials such as arsenic, lead, radium, barium, strontium and sodium (salts) etc. and continues to return to the surface for the life of the well.
BRINE: What the industry calls PRODUCED WATER to make it seem less scary
TYPES OF “just water”:
Let’s look at Snee’s “JUST WATER”
FRACK WATER: Initial mix of chemicals, sand and water used for fracking.
FLOWBACK WATER: Frack Water which returns immediately following the fracking of a well
PRODUCED WATER: Frack Water which has been in the ground and mixed with naturally occurring materials such as arsenic, lead, radium, barium, strontium and sodium (salts) etc.
BRINE: What the industry calls PRODUCED WATER to make it seem less scary. Sound like something your grandma would use to make pickle.
Produced water or Brine also contains 5‐7 times more salt than seawater.
Is this “JUST WATER”? Don’t think so.
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The fenced-in site would take up less than an acre and have controlled access points with security monitoring. Trucks would be registered and undergo a radiation inspection before unloading.
PER US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA):
How are drilling wastes produced?The briney solution contained in reservoirs of oil and gas is known as "formation water." During drilling, a mixture of oil, gas, and formation water is pumped to the surface. The water is separated from the oil and gas into tanks or pits, where it is referred to as "produced water." As the oil and gas in the reservoir are removed, more of what is pumped to the surface is formation water. Consequently, declining oil fields generate more produced water. While uranium and thorium are not soluble in water, their radioactive decay product, radium, and some of its decay products are somewhat soluble. Radium and its decay products may dissolve in the brine. They may remain in solution or settle out to form sludges, which accumulate in tanks and pits, or mineral scales, which form inside pipes and drilling equipment.
Snee’s Just Water will need to undergo radiation inspection. Why? According to the EPA, frack water is radioactive.
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The fenced-in site would take up less than an acre and have controlled access points with security monitoring. Trucks would be registered and undergo a radiation inspection before unloading.
QUESTION:
What is the ‘acceptable” level of radiation?
What happens to the trucks and load when they DO NOT pass RADIATION INSPECTION?
In an article first published in ProPublica and then in the Albany Times Union on November 9, 2009, Abrahm Lustgarten reported that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation analyzed 13 samples of wastewater brought up thousands of feet to the surface from drilling and found that they contained levels of radium-226, a derivative of uranium, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink.
New York, which currently has a moratorium on fossil fuel drilling, found radium 226 at 267 times the safe discharge level.
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It was reported in April of 2013, trucks carrying shale drill cuttings were setting off radiation alarms at a Pennsylvania landfill.
The EPA’s standard for air pollution is 10,000 microrem per year (also known as 10 millirem/year).
Pennsylvania measures radiation in hourly emissions and EPA’s standard in terms of yearly emissions. The radiation level in the truck is roughly 84 times higher than EPA’s standard.
Trucks carrying rejected loads of drill cuttings were refused. Where did they go?
John Poister, a spokesperson for DEP, stated DEP DOESN’T KNOW.
Not only is the frack water radioactive, the drill cuttings are also radioactive. Drill cuttings are dirt, rock, mud removed by drilling. Snee would probably call it just dirt. But it is more than just dirt.This past fall, DEP approve permits for drill cutting dumping in a Hazleton Landfill.Drill cutting loads that are refused, presumably because they set off the radiation alarms, end up where? DEP doesn’t know.
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QUESTION:
If DEP does NOT have a registry of rejected drill cuttings, doesthat mean there isn’t one for rejected frack water?
What happens to rejected frack water loads?
This is what the fossil fuel industry calls dust control. Is it fresh water or something else?
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Geochemists have found dangerous levels of radioactivity and salinity at a fracking disposal site near Blacklick Creek, which feeds into water sources for Pittsburgh and other western Pennsylvania cities.
The Duke scientists spent two years, from 2010 to 2012, taking soil samples upstream and downstream from the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility in Indiana County, PA.
Even after waste water was treated at the plant to remove dangerous chemicals, radiation was detected
far above regulated levels.
The treated water had Radium levels 200 times greater than control water from the area, said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and one of the primary authors of the study.
This is from a study done on frack water at a frack water treatment plant. Note it’s call “brine” treatment, and even after treatment , radiation levels were at 200 times greater than the control water samples. .
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Randy Moyer, trucked brine from wells to treatment plants and back to wells, now suffers from dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, difficulty breathing, swollen lips and appendages, and a fiery red rash that covered about 50 percent of his body. He believes he is sick from the chemicals in fracking fluid and from radiation exposure. He cites unsafe and unregulated working conditions on well sites, no oversight about safety clothing, breathing masks, or chemical suits. The sites are treated like any other construction site, all that's needed is a hardhat and goggles. But when working with radiation and toxic chemicals from deep underground, adverse health effects are never far behind. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHoHft6Mqno )
This is about a 3 minute video. Randy Moyer worked in the industry for a few months as a truck driver, until he became sick. He hauled frack water from drill sites to injection wells in Ohio as well as cleaning out trucks, frack water tanks that were on a drill site.
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These tanks will be cleaned out periodically, and sediment and other such matter "will be handled and removed according to all applicable state and federal environmental requirements."
QUESTIONS:
What is done with the “SEDIMENT and OTHER SUCH MATERIAL”?
What is IN the SEDIMENT and OTHER SUCH MATERIAL”?
Are “state and federal requirements”sufficient to ensure our safety?
Who enforces these state and federal requirements?
What exemptions exist in the state and federal requirements?
WAVECO’s proposal includes settling tanks. This is where heavier materials will sink to the bottom. As was stated in the Citizen’s Voice article, sediment and other such material will need to be cleaned out. Where will it go? Probably Hazleton.
As a side note – Pennsylvania is currently #3 for the states with the most Superfund sites. We have 93 active superfund sites. One is in Hazleton at Valmont Industries. An underground tanks and connecting pipes leaked chemicals into the ground water. Ground water contamination was discovered in October 1987. In 2001, the EPA proposed adding the site to the superfund list. EPA began a “pilot study” in 2009 to figure out a delivery system to covert the contaminants into harmless substances. EPA is still working on it. Approximately 30‐40 homes lost their water. We are looking at 27 years, and the area is still not clean.
With the increase of fossil fuel industrialization in Pennsylvania, we may make it to the #1 spot.
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Per EXPLORE SHALE.comFlowback may be treated through a variety of methods.
•Diluted with fresh water and used for another well.•Treated on site and used for another well.•Hauled off site for treatment and/or disposal in permitted deep injection wells.
QUESTION:
Doesn’t adding fresh water to the “treated” frack water imply that the
“treated” frack water is still too contaminated to use for fracking?
Think about it. To frack using the recycled water requires dilution, in other words add fresh water to it. Doesn’t that imply that even after being treated, that frack water is still too contaminated to use at full strength?
FRACK WATER IMPACT ZONE
Let’s look a bit closer to home.
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Drill Cutting Dumpsite
A larger view showing the surrounding communities with estimated population. Including Lake Township, we have a population of 22,250 in Luzerne county alone. I didn’t even look at those in Wyoming County that abut this area. Where will the trucks be coming from? Lycoming County, lots of drilling going on there, Bradford, Susquehanna, Sullivan, Tioga etc. Currently the fossil fuel industry trucks the majority of frack water to Ohio to be put down injection wells. You may have heard about the earthquakes in Youngstown Ohio that were linked to the injection wells. That’s PA frack water going down those holes.
Not everyone in Luzerne County has private water wells, there are also municipal water companies like Pennsylvania America Water.
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AMERICAN WATER is the largest, investor-owned water and wastewater utility company in the United States.
“Our regulated businesses currently provide water and wastewater services in 20 U.S. states. Our regulated subsidiaries are subject to economic regulation by state PUCs in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. That means that in each state we operate, water quality and service rates are subject to extensive regulation by state PUCs, as well as environmental, health and safety and water quality regulations by federal, state and local governments. Our vast network of treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities, and approximately 45,000 miles of main and collection pipe, are all put to work each day to provide our customers with the highest-quality service.
Our 19 states subsidiaries are: Arizona American Water California American Water Hawaii American Water Illinois American Water Indiana American Water Iowa American Water Kentucky American Water Long Island American Water Maryland American Water Michigan American Water Missouri American Water New Jersey American Water New Mexico American Water Ohio American Water Pennsylvania American Water Tennessee American Water Texas American Water Virginia American Water West Virginia American Water”
Pennsylvania America Water is a division of American Water. It provides water to many communities in Luzerne County. You may have noticed TV commercials for American Water on local TV stations. Wonder why?
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10,000 gallon chemical spill in West Virginia left over 300,000 people without water.
That’s about 26% of the state.
West Virginia American Water does not have the facilities to detect or remove the chemicals.
This is a map of West Virginia. The area in yellow are the 9 counties which had no water due to a chemical spill for a number of days. There are reports, that despite the “ok to drink the water” announcement, the water is still not OK to drink. This spill happened January 9th of this year. The water supplier to these counties is West Virginia American Water, the only way they knew there was a problem with their water was someone contacted them and told them. They had no systems or facilities to detect the chemicals, and they only way they know how to remove it is to flush it out, send it downstream and hope dilution works.
I know WAVECO and their supporters are doing to downplay the likelihood of a spill or leak and tell us it is nothing to worry about. Well, Freedom Industries, which owned and operated the chemical tanks that leaked into the Elk River and left 26% of the state without water also said their operations were safe.
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Waveco plans to have up to 30 settling and storage tanks to hold the used fracking water until it can be returned to drilling sites for reuse. They will be 45 feet by 10 feet with a capacity of 20,000 gallons each.
DO THE MATH:
30 Tanks (initially) x 20,000 gallons each = 600,000 gallons
Company anticipates fewer than 25 truck trips per week in the initial phases of the operation.
DO THE MATH:
Each truck holds 4,730 gallons
x 25 “INITIAL TRIPS per week” = 118,250 Gallons
QUESTION:
Does Pennsylvania American Water have the ability to detect and remove frack water contaminates should a spill or leak occur which
may effect drinking water to local communities?
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TRUCKS
Few things about trucks we need to be concerned with. Certainly truck accidents is one of them. We’ve read about a number of them where people were injured or killed. There have also been accidents where the fluid tanks have leaked. Keep in mind the standard size truck most commonly used has the capacity to carry 4,730 gallons. Two of those trucks can carry as much contaminated fluids as was reported leaked into the Elk River in West Virginia.
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Company anticipates fewer than 25 truck trips per week in the initial phases of the operation.
….hours of operation, which would be between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Water trucks idling in Asylum Township, Bradford County, PA
Key word here is INITIAL PHASES. Once initial phases are complete how many trucks? Remember there will be 30 tanks capable of holding up to 600,000 gallons. HOW MANY TRUCKS REALLY?
Also note – operation hours 6am‐7pm. A total of 13 hours. Mostly daytime hours, right? Anyone here ever camp out at a ticket kiosk or outlet to get tickets to a concert or show? Ever see lines forming hours before the tickets go on sale? Think about that, then tell me these trucks won’t be lined up 2 or 3 or more hours before the gates are open to let them in?
This photo shows trucks at a water withdrawal station in Bradford County. You can’t see it in this photo, but the line extends around the corner into that tree line.
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Water Trucks at water withdrawal station in West Virginia
This is in West Virginia. So think about this. It’s summer, you have a window open and instead of hearing the usually country night time sounds you hear a line of trucks idling their diesel engines. Instead of perhaps smelling a gentle scent of pine, you smell diesel. And if you’re smelling it, you are breathing it.
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A bit about truck signs. Trucks carrying frack water should be marked as wastewater, residual waste or produced water. Why? Because they are not carrying “just water”. They are carrying hazardous contaminated water.
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Per Insurance policies, trucks marked as FRESH WATER can only contain FRESH WATER and may not be used to transport or store any other type of water or fluid.
DEP office for our region2 Public SquareWilkes-Barre, PA 18711-0790Phone: 570-826-2511
Trucks marked as FRESH WATER should not be part of the convoy line going in and out of the plant. Will you see these trucks in the convoy lines? If you do, get the license number, the company name and phone number if possible. Note the time, date and location. Use your camera phone and snap a picture.
Report it to the DEP office for our region as well as any other problems you may find.
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PROPERTY VALUES and INSURANCE
What will a frack water plant do to my home. Aside from the potential damages due to leaks, spills or other accidents, and the convoy of diesel trucks, your property value may decrease.
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Christopher Timmins, a Duke University economics professor, and LucijaMuehlenbachs, a fellow at think tank Resources for the Future - found shale gas drilling within a kilometer (0.6 mile) of a home can decrease property values by an average of 16.7%
Other studies have found property values have dropped by 25% just with a lease and no active production, and drops of a further 25% once production starts.
Real estate brokers say they see more signs of prospective home buyers worrying about the health and environmental effects of living close to a well.
"For the most part, it renders those houses unsellable," said Phyllis Wolper, a Denton, Texas, realtor who has several clients who live near oil and gas wells and have been unable to sell their homes.
A University of Denver study found that a majority of 550 people surveyed would decline to buy a home near natural gas drilling. The study, to be published in the Journal of Real Estate Literature, also found up to a 25 percent reduction in bid value for homes located near these "fracking scenarios."
U.S. Drilling And Fracking Boom Leaves Some Homeowners In A Big Hole | Huffington Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/us-drilling-fracking-boom_n_4431488.html
We know that properties with fossil fuel wells, and those nearby do see a drop in their property value. Living on or near an industrial area is not something that realtors would call curb appeal.
The proposed frack water plant is an industrial operation. Those in the immediate area, expect a 16‐25% drop of your property values right off the bat. Add in the truck traffic, and possible expansion of the frack water plant and your property value will drop even more. If you experience contamination of your water, your property will be worth nothing.
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In northeastern states like Pennsylvania, fracking worries have prompted lenders to begin rejecting mortgage applications due togas drilling – on neighboring property.
In Colorado, real estate brokers describe keeping a long list of sellers in heavily fracked areas, but a paucity of buyers.
Under the terms mortgage buyers like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require, "you cannot cause or permit any hazardous materials to be on your property and it specifically references oil and gas," Greg May, vice president of residential mortgage lending at Tompkins Bank, toldAmerican Banker in an interview published Nov. 12. "That alone would make it a problem."
Banks Reluctant to Lend in Shale Plays as Evidence Mounts on Harm to Property Values Near Fracking | http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/11/25/new-evidence-fracking-s-property-value-impacts-banks-growing-reluctant-lend-near-gas-wells
Although this refers to fracking operations, a frack water plant would certainly be cause for concern by mortgage lenders. There are also reports where homeowners are unable to refinance due to the fossil fuel operation on or nearby.
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The standard homeowners insurance policy has a pollution
exclusion for property.
“Insurance agents are trying to make themselves as aware as possible of the situation, because obviously if someone’s signing a contract with one of the energy companies to permit a drill site on their property, then there’s going to have to be a response from an insurance standpoint as far as trying to find the coverage if the current carrier is not willing to provide it,” according to the insurance education organization Sparks Club.
Standard homeowner’s insurance does not cover pollution damage, period. Will yourhomeowner’s policy be canceled because of the proximity of the frack water plant? Probably not, however, if and when there is a spill, leak or accident from the frack water plant and your property is damaged, your homeowner’s policy won’t cover it. You will either have to hope WAVECO will cover the damages or be prepared to take them to court.
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QUESTIONS:
Does WAVECO have sufficient insurance to cover damages?
What type of insurance does WAVECO have?
According to current DEP and EPA regulations, what exemptions apply to a frack water treatment plant?
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JOBS JOBS JOBS
Briefly, if it wasn’t mentioned at the meeting last night, it will surely be brought up as a talking point. It always is. Jobs jobs jobsIn 2010, Pennsylvania was among the top 10 states for job creation. This is 2 years after the big wall street crash and bail out. Today we rank between 45th and 49th. If the fossil fuel industry is creating all these jobs that Corbett and the industry states, where are they?
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Trained personnel would be on site during hours of operation, which would be between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., and the company anticipates fewer than 25 truck trips per week in the initial phases of the operation.
Snee said there would not be a physical building to house the facility. The only structure would be a caretaker's shack, she said.
JOBS JOBS JOBS TALKING POINT
Fountain Quail Water Management, Roanoke Texas
Number of Employees: 40
Plants in Operation: 9
DO THE MATH:
40 employees / 9 plants = 4.4 employees per plant
Specific to the frack water plant. I ran a search on corporations operating frack water plants. Using one company as an example, they have 40 employees, and operate 9 frackwater plants. Doing the math, that’s 4.4 employees per plant, and this particular company run their plants 24/7.
Well, what about trucker jobs? Truckers are typically either working for a fossil fuel company or are working for a sub‐contractor. Truckers hauling frack water go from a drill site to Ohio. It take about 3 ½ hours from Williamsport to Youngstown Ohio, figure another hour at the injection well in Youngstown to unload, then drive back. That’s an 8 hours drive for 1 load.
Same driver, Williamsport to Lake Township, about 1 hour drive, an hour to unload, hour back. 3 hours, time enough to do a 2nd trip, perhaps even a 3rd.
So you have 1 driver able to do more loads than he previously did. Hire more drivers? No, more likely lay some of them off.
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Trained personnel would be on site during hours of operation, which would be between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
Per Waveco Energy Services website:
Waveco Energy Services provides a wide range of support to energy companies involved in the Marcellus and Utica Shale operations in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Waveco Energy is a local company with extensive industry expertise in water withdrawal, fuel services and transportation.
http://www.wavecoenergy.com/
QUESTIONS:
Does Waveco have experience in operating a frack water recycle plant?
Where will WAVECO find “trained personnel”?
The Citizen’s Voice article mentions TRAINED personnel. According to Waveco’s website, there is no mention of any experience or training related to frack water recycling. They have “extensive expertise in water withdrawal, fuel services and transportation”. Nothing about waste water treatment or frack water treatment.
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Trained personnel would be on site during hours of operation, which would be between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
QUESTIONS:
Who will be monitoring the facility during non-operational hours?
In the event of an accident during non-operational hours, how long will it take for Waveco to respond?
Is there an emergency response plan for local residents and First Responders?
Who is responsible to pay for clean-up, road repair. etc?
FRACK WATER CYCLE
Here’s a quick overview of frack water recycling. There are many different methods of recycling frack water
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Each of these offer’s their method of recycling frack water, each has it’s pros and cons. NONE REMOVE RADIOACTIVITY.Which one is Waveco using?
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Frack Water is treated “JUST ENOUGH” so it can be used again.
Analysis: Fracking water's dirty little secret – Recycling | Reuters | July 2013 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/15/us-fracking-water-analysis-idUSBRE96E0ML20130715
Get ready for photos like these showing dirty nasty frack water and then how clean it is after being recycled. It looks clean, but as Reuter’s reported it’s cleaned just enough to be used again for fracking. It is not potable water. If these processes were capable of turning contaminated frack water into potable water, then these processes could be applied to homes with contaminated water.
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30 tanks: 45 feet by 10 feet with a capacity of 20,000 gallons each
600,000 gallons of FRACK WATER
So 30 tanks filled with 600,000 gallons of fracking water, run by a company with no experience. What could go wrong?
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MANY QUESTIONS ASKED, MORE NEEDS TO BE ASKED
What YOU can do:
Ask questions.
Educate yourself on the issue.
Show up at town and county meetings.
Support a county charter amendment for the right to CLEAN AIR, CLEAN WATER AND A HEALTHY COMMUNITY.
