HB Fracking Forum. Sarah Roberts, Farmer from Taranaki.
Download her full power point presentation as a PDF here.
Download a collection of instances showing a blatant lack of monitoring of the Fracking sites in Taranaki. (And it is these council reports that faith is built upon for deciding upon the use of Fracking in other areas).
Caleb Behn speaking at a public forum about Fracking in Whakatu, Hastings on the 20th April 2012.
INTRODUCTION
The impact on groundwater quality by petroleum development is increasingly becoming a societal concern. Recently, Osborn et al.1 received significant press coverage with their report of methane contamination of drinking water from drilling and hydraulic fracturing associated with shale-gas extraction in the states of Pennsylvania and New York in the USA. They suggested two possible sources for increased methane concentrations observed in groundwater near gas wells: (1) methane moving laterally and vertically through the fracture system at hundreds of meters underground to leaky well casings; or (2), upward migration of methane above the target shale formation through a fracture system with increased connectivity that was generated by the process of hydraulic fracturing.
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