OIL AND GAS: Drilling draws on scarce Colorado water supplies

Source: www.eenews.net

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Natural gas drillers will need more water from cities on the Niobrara formation in Colorado for use in hydraulic fracturing, which municipalities say they just may not have.

The operators have already purchased about 500 million gallons of water from local municipalities this year, but this usage will likely grow as a new announcement last week by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. suggested that 1 billion barrels of oil may lie in the shale.

Each new well requires 1 million to 5 million gallons of water to drill. State natural resource planners are now calculating how much water will be available for drilling in an already water-stressed state.

"This area was called the Great American Desert for a reason," said Sean Conway, a Weld County commissioner. "Long term, we're going to have to have serious discussions about new water storage."

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Do not be fooled that farmers and landowners will get a 'big fat paycheck' from the industry to purchase their water. No amount of money is worth using your water to extinction. Once this water is used in fracking it will never be the same and will not become drinkable again.  Please describe to us why then does the industry inject (dispose of)  their 'used toxic water' some, 8,000 feet into the ground to stay for all eternity?  Produced water is considered 'industrial waste' and is not potable whatsoever. Do not sell your water, do not sell our water to the oil and gas industry. Do not sell out to the greed that feeds the few and destroys the many.

Texas Drought Imposes Fracking Limitations - Locals Fear Fracking Will Use Up Dwindling Water Supply

By Cori O'Donnell
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
 Energyandcapital.com

The severe drought in Texas has prompted local authorities to impose water limitations, which affect not only the citizens but also the local oil and natural gas companies.

Local water districts have the authority to allocate the water from subterranean aquifers. Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) restrictions have been put into place in addition to the pumping restrictions that are placed on farmers and small towns.

Hydraulic fracturing, which uses high pressurized water to create new channels in rock, is the technique used to develop about 85 percent of the oil wells drilled in Texas, according to state regulators. Even before the drought came into play, fracking was a controversial issue for the gas and oil companies.



Fracking concerns the local people because they fear it can contaminate the water supply, and now feared even more is if fracking will use too much water during the intensifying drought.

Bloomberg reports that “The rumblings have definitely started in the last six months,” said Chris Faulkner, chief executive officer of Breitling Oil and Gas Corp., a closely held producer in Irving, Texas. “It used to be, ‘Are you going to contaminate my water;’ now the concern is, ‘You’re going to use up all my water.’”

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Day after day, day after day,

We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

-STC

Hang the Albatross around your neck Oil and Gas! Drink your radioactive, toxic frac-fluids, bathe in them, for they are all yours. You produced it, you keep it!