Now That's a Big Fracking Deal!

[Oscar]

Now That's a Big Fracking Deal!

http://www.landownerassociation.ca/blog_avram.html

August 27, 2010

In Northern B.C., a group of landowners are getting prepared to have an underground water pipeline built across their land. The project is being imposed upon them by the B.C. government.
The purpose of the pipeline is to supply vast quantities of water to the energy industry, who mix it with chemicals and sand, and then push it underground backed by enormous pressure. The intent is to literally fracture and break up the earth. The process is commonly called fracing—or fracking (short for fracturing). It is the method energy companies are using to break up underground formations and thereby gain access to oil and natural gas deposits.
To give you an idea of what fracking can involve, consider the fact that earlier this year Apache Corporation announced that it had recently completed a frack job in British Columbia that required 50,000 tons of sand and nearly one million cubic metres of water.
After I read about it, I spent the better part of a morning trying to understand what 100 million pounds of sand (50,000 tons), and one million cubic meters of water, look like.

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