Acid mine water for fracking?

Acid mine water for fracking?

PostBy: Flyer5 On: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:15 pm

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Re: Acid mine water for fracking?

PostBy: SMITTY On: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:40 pm

Works for me. You guys would know more about this than me - nothing like this would EVER fly in this state. They're too busy shipping jobs OUT of the state than trying to create new ones ... :roll:
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Re: Acid mine water for fracking?

PostBy: Flyer5 On: Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:29 pm

Don't get me wrong I am not against fracking ( even though I am no longer leased. ) But that just does not sound like a good idea.
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The orange water is the water they want to use.
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Re: Acid mine water for fracking?

PostBy: CapeCoaler On: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:12 am

But if you can't see it...
there is no problem...
See soon all the orange is gone...
no problem...
The solution to pollution is dilution... :shock: ;)
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Re: Acid mine water for fracking?

PostBy: Berlin On: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:19 pm

It's acid mine water, not liquid death.

When injected into high lime shales it will quickly neutralize and become a non-issue. That's how this stuff is treated anyway when pumped out - it's pumped to a retention pond, loaded with lime, tested, and then dumped into the nearest waterway. There's nothing magically evil about it, It's high iron content (orange) acidic mine water made so by pyritic sulfur in coal beds.
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