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Marcellus Shale fracking wells use 5 million gallons of water apiece

2013-10-31 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Forget about residents. Forget about fish. The streams and rivers of Pennsylvania and West Virginia are being heavily tapped to quench the growing thirst of the fracking industry. According to a new report, each of the thousands of fracking wells drilled to draw gas and oil out of the Marcellus Shale formation in those two states uses an average of 4.1 to 5.6 million gallons of fresh water. That`s more than the amount of water used by fracking wells in three other big shale formations around the...

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