CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings May 6, 2014
Gallons of fresh water for each fracking. An 90 of the water never returns to the surface, so its permanently removed from the water cycle. Fracking requires millions and millions and millions of gallons of water per well. There also seems to be a strong correlation between hydraulic fracking and seismic activities. A good example would be youngstown, ohio. Just before Christmas Eve two years ago, a guy was pumping water into the rocks and kept pushing more and more pressure and the rocks went he created a little earthquake, magnitude 4. Another issue it of the oil acquired by fracking is ofte...