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Originally Posted by DuffMan
Much like she pleaded with the Alta govt for some kind of intervention or compensation from the company who did the fracking but got the line
“To date, there has not been a documented case of hydraulic fracturing fluids contaminating a domestic water well in Alberta,”
Here's the reality. Her well worked fine for about 80 years, Company fracs within maybe 2 k of her house, Water is orange, and undrinkable. Ultimately everything settles down after about 6 months, but she has to pay to get an iron filter system installed.
Now this well was old, but still its fine, they frac, its not fine.
coincidence?
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Maybe, maybe not.
But I'd be inclined to say yeah, it probably was, for a couple reasons.
For example if they fracing 2k away, what would be one hell of a good frac job to make it to a water well that far away. Yes, if the aquifer is that extensive it's possible that they hit it close to the well and it is in communication across the aquifer, but that's not likely something that is going to show up immediately. Also, I'd be interested to know exaclty how deep the aquifer, and the zone they were fracing were. Cause that makes a big difference as well. They aren't likely to frac into an aquifer 100m deep when they are completing a well that is 3500m deep.
Secondly, if the water well now has a problem that can be fixed with an iron filter, that's not likely the type of damage a frac would cause.
If they really did frac into the aquifer and there is a problem she would be seeing hydrocarbons in her water, not iron.
This is exactly the problem I have with people making blanket statements about fracing. They don't understand the process/technology/chemistry involved, and when they see anything go wrong anywhere in the general vicinity/time frame of a well being fraced, they assume they are related, and fall back on the "Coincidence?" argument.
You stated that you "Know for a fact" that her well was damaged by fracing, but you don't seem to have any compelling evidence other than saying "It can't be a conincidence". Well, yes it can.