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Pennsylvania Fracking Wastewater Likely to Overwhelm Ohio Injection Wells
2013-01-23 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The total amount of fracking wastewater from natural gas production in Pennsylvania`s Marcellus shale region has increased by about 570 percent since 2004, as a result of increased shale gas production, according to a study released yesterday by researchers at Duke and Kent State universities. Though hydraulically fractured natural gas wells in the Marcellus shale region produce only about 35 percent as much wastewater, per unit of gas recovered, as conventional wells, according to the new analysis,...
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