23 Replies to “Fracking contaminates well-water”

  1. On a serious note, most water wells are from 3 to 18 metres (10–60 ft) deep and rarely go past two or three hundred feet. Most fracking wells go down to 2-3 miles. Almost all contamination of surface water or well water due to fracking is due to fracking wells that have been poorly sealed at the well head. I’m not a drilling expert. This is what I’ve read from several sources over the years.

  2. I am a drilling expert. As you say,if the well(s) had been properly drilled and sealed along the casing,the only thing that can cause leakage is an earth quack. And it takes millennia for the crap from a well 3 miles deep to leech up to 80 feet. Another no nothing leech(politician) looking for a hand out,and sucking in the LIV’s. There really should be a basic test for allowing LIV’s to vote.

  4. Yes, those earthquacks are terrifying. You know you’re in trouble when you hear the earth groan, but to hear it quack! Terrifying!!! Call an earth doctor. “QUACK!!!! There been an Earthquack!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  7. Well, my well is 400 feet deep, and I have been farting on my property for years with no contamination to my well water!

  8. yah, and my ducks earthquake too loudly, they drown out the earthquacks
    hey justtinklin, stick to keyboard karate, you would sound just a little less stupid

  9. Almost all contamination of surface water or well water due to fracking is due to fracking wells that have been poorly sealed at the well head.
    Actually, most of the groundwater contamination associated with hydraulic fracturing occurs when old wells with corroded and deteriorated casing are fracked. New wells are almost all fracked to some extent and groundwater contamination very rarely occurs.
    Anyone who doesn’t make a distinction between fracking new and old wells is being disingenuous and likely biased.

  10. In this part of the world the oil & gas wells are shallow (less than 1,000 m) and they aren’t fracked because the cost of fracking would make the wells unprofitable. Hell they don’t drill wells in these parts anymore. They use a pile driver and real red necks with giant wrenches.
    But on a serious note, if anyone near Dover wants to blame fracking for their crappy water they are going to have to explain why the more than 10,000 natural showings of oil and gas at surface aren’t a factor, plus they’ll have to explain why the farmers who have wind turbines on their property have perfectly fine water while the farmers nearby are pumping black crud.

  11. John,
    The oil & gas industry in Ontario is TINY. Probably less than $75 million per year in gross revenue. The companies looking for oil couldn’t even afford to buy fracking sand. Plus the wells are so shallow there isn’t enough pressure in the reservoir (and the formations are not tight enough) to warrant fracking. It costs about $650,000 to drill a well and the typical gross value of a well is barely $1.2 million. So if you drill 2 wells and one is dry you lose your shirt. It wouldn’t surprise me if locals have water problems associated with oil and gas. In some cases the reservoirs are only a few hundred feet below surface. These are not the reservoirs being pumped by oil companies. These are natural reservoirs that leak to surface.

  12. Most of you who commented need to read the story – properly. Hint….it has nothing to do with fracking.
    When the resident racist can figure this out you are all in big trouble.
    Kudos to Sean who also paid attention.

  14. Exactly. The second sentence in the article is very clear what the article is about. Lance’s analogy merely used sarcasm related to the decades long allegations that fracking causes everything including in-grown toenails.
    Relax, sit back and read the articles.

  16. Disinformation was the most powerful and most often used weapon of the USSR. Bout time we took it over.

  19. I wasn’t referring to the oil & gas industry in Ontario, The vast majority [ie. tens of thousands] of O&G wells are in Western Canada and I was referring to the experience with those wells. All new wells are required to be logged and documented for casing seal and integrity before it is fracked.
    The fact remains that almost all ‘fracking contamination’ incidents that actually involved fracking were when small fly-by-night secondary recovery contractors worked on old wells with deficient casing.

  20. Disinformation was the most powerful and most often used weapon of the USSR. Bout time we took it over.
    The Lieberals have been successfully using it for decades.

  21. Yeah, so what. People wanted to talk about the topic headline not about vibration from wind turbines contaminating groundwater with silt.

  22. The Liberal party, the Democrat party, every union, every bureaucracy, all were completely subverted by the KGB decades ago. OF COURSE they use disinformation; it is what their handlers taught them. Yuri Bezmenov defected from the KGB, and told us all back in the 60s or 70s. And we have always ignored the warnings.

  23. “Then one day he was shooting at some food
    And up through the ground came a bubbling crude
    Oil that is black gold Texas tea”
    So were the wells contaminated before or after the fracking? Inquiring minds want to know.
    Baseline comparisons?

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