The company argued that the methane release was occurring naturally. State regulators blamed faulty gas wells drilled by the company for leaking combustible methane into Dimock’s groundwater. In March, a federal Pennsylvania jury ordered Cabot Oil & Gas to pay more than $4.24 million in damages to two families in Dimock, who claimed the company’s fracking operations contaminated their groundwater with methane.
‘Invalid and unenforceable’: Colorado court rules for state power over city fracking ban /qak17L8hEe- RT America May 3, 2016įracking practices have been linked to earthquakes across Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas. Natural gas is predominantly fracked from shale and other tight rocks in the Marcellus and Utica formations of the Appalachian Basin, the Bakken formation in Montana and North Dakota, the Eagle Ford formation in Texas, and the stacked Permian Basin formations in Texas and New Mexico. Fifteen years later, the number of fracking wells had grown to an estimated 300,000, and production to more than 53 billion cubic feet per day, representing 67 percent of the US’ total natural gas output. In 2000, approximately 26,000 fracking wells produced 3.6 billion cubic feet of marketed gas per day in the US, making up less than 7 percent of the national total. Today in #Energy: Hydraulically fractured wells provide two-thirds of #US #natgas production /8K1clBAwtR- EIA May 5, 2016ĮIA said the share of natural gas production is even greater than that of crude oil produced using the same methods, which accounts for about half of current oil production in the US.
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