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Originally Posted by DuffMan
Hunh? Lighting your potable water on fire is a pretty common effect of fracking. Type in fracking and lighting water on fire, in youtube. I don't think I alluded to it being his water. I said see how he likes it when it happens to him. He never said that.
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I don't know why I'm even responding, but, no, lighting your water on fire is not an effect of fracking, let alone a common one.
Water that burns is an effect of a flammable substance being present in the water, which can get there in innumerable ways, none of which are fracking, unless the zone fracked is close to the aquifer AND the frac propagates into it. Rarely are the target zones even within kilometers of depth of the fresh water aquifers, though.
I agree, a poorly constructed well CAN be a contributing factor, but that is not fracking. But even with a poorly constructed well, you'll need to show me what depths the leaks are at and how they communicate with the aquifer. You can't just say, "There's a well, that's the cause!"
As fotze mentioned often in this thread, a poorly constructed water well is more likely to be the cause.
At least oil and gas wells are engineered by licensed professionals, have regulations, guidelines, industry best practices, etc... but admittedly, nothing is perfect and there are cases where the oil and gas industry is responsible for ruining some landowners' water. But to say all wells (or fracs) are destroying aquifers is like saying all mines result in rock slides or all fisheries plunder entire fish populations or that all forestry companies clear cut. Every industry has its issues but fracking is far down the list of the oil industry's biggest ones. It's just the flavour of the week for some folk that don't understand the technical nuances.