Unless you are on an ultra high sea salt, high barium, high arsenic and high radium 226 diet. Which may account for all the novel ways the frackers are trying to make billions of gallons of the stuff disappear - as “de-icer” onto roads, down a shallow disposal well, or into muni treatment plants - or, condensed to a toxic, radioactive sludge, into a landfill near you. So that your kids or grandkids can drink it. . . and get sick. As explained in a new study from PSU:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121218203537.htm
Full copy of the PSU study here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117395586/Fracking-Flowback-Brine
Abstract:
“Large quantities of highly saline brine flow from gas wells in the Marcellus Formation after hydraulic
stimulation (‘‘fracking’’). This study assesses the composition of these flowback waters from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania, USA. Concentrations of most inorganic components of flowback water (Cl, Br,Na, K, Ca, Mg, Sr, Ba, Ra, Fe, Mn, total dissolved solids, and others) increase with time from a well after hydraulic stimulation. Based on results in several datasets reported here, the greatest concentration of Cl in flowback water is 151,000 mg/L. For total Ra (combined
226 Ra and 228 Ra) in flowback, the highest level reported is 6540 pCi/L. Flowback waters from hydraulic fracturing of Marcellus wells resemble brines produced from conventional gas wells that tap into other Paleozoic formations in the region.
The Br/Cl ratio and other parameters indicate that both types of brine formed by the evaporation of seawater followed by dolomitization, sulfate reduction and subsurface mixing with seawater and/or freshwater. Trends and relationships in brine composition indicate that (1) increased salt concentration in flowback is not mainly caused by dissolution of salt or other minerals in rock units, (2) the flowback waters represent a mixture of injection waters with highly concentrated in situ brines similar to those in the other formations, and (3) these waters contain concentrations of Ra and Ba that are commonly hundreds of times the US drinking water standards.”
Maybe someone should get Frackman to do a taste test ?
surprise Frackman with it
Thank God for peer-reviewed science!
yeh, but they didn’t let Frackman do a taste test
DIXON says
ANYBODY CAN TELL US REGARDING NORM (NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIO ACTIVE MATERIAL) ENRICHED SLUDGE DISPOSAL METHOD ?
Would be hilarious, if it weren’t so real.
Jane Davison This isn't a good thing at all. People have to realize that HYDRO FRACKING IS NO GOOD TO SOCIETY. says
I DON’T think that this is a very good thing to do because we need our drinking water. To have it polluted isn’t nice and we also have to use it for things cooking and personal things in the bathroom as well as the laundry. When we want a drink, we want the water pure and the source pristine. Our lakes are a watershed and we can’t have that polluted for the farms or the farms destroyed. This isn’t a good thing at all. Jane Davison
literally billions of gallons of this briny s$%t