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Toxic substance or water supply?
Lawmakers to weigh whether wastewater from oil fields could replenish the state s aquifers
BY ERIN DOUGLAS, Texas Tribune
Jan. 21, 2021
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FILE photo- Drilling and natural fracking wells in the Haynesville shale in East Texas lead by Exxon Mobile and XO Energy on Tuesday, July 19, 2016.Elizabeth Conley, Staff photographer / Staff photographer
But that’s not all that comes up out of the earth.
Salty, contaminated water held in porous rocks formed hundreds of millions of years ago is also drawn to the surface during oil production. Before an oil price war and the coronavirus pandemic caused prices to crash in March, Texas wells were producing more than 26 million barrels of the ancient and contaminated water a day, according to an analysis by S&P Global Platts. ....

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