After careful study of the Fracking process, for technically speaking, it's in my backyard, the fact that the process is "self-regulating" is the main culprit for mismanagement.
The link provided states: "Shale gas production is exempt from the Clean Water Act and the industry has pledged to self-monitor its waste production to avoid regulatory oversight.
However, the study clearly showed the need for independent monitoring and regulation, said Vengosh.
"What is happening is the direct result of a lack of any regulation. If the Clean Water Act was applied in 2005 when the shale gas boom started this would have been prevented."
There are various dangerous consequences in the fracking technology.....
http://rt.com/op-edge/fracking-radioactive-uranium-danger-ecology-057/
* One, is the use of Depleted Uranium in the shaped charge head or “gun” blasting device. (Halliburton)
以前的金属用于世鹏科技电子ed charge head or “gun” was copper. This creates a pressure of 300,000 atmospheres which pushes the rock aside by plastic deformation. But in 1984 a US patent (US 4441428) was filed by one Thomas Wilson, entitled “Conical Shaped Charge Liner of Depleted Uranium.” The patent begins: “this invention relates to a novel blasting device especially adapted for drilling oil and gas wells.” Wilson records that DU is 5-times as efficient as copper in terms of the length of the jetted hole, creating a pressure of 600,000 atmospheres. Because of the uranium’s greater chemical reactivity it actually creates new chemical compounds with the material in the rock (and the oil and gas).
In case you might think this is all scaremongering, academic and unrelated to fracking, another patent was filed more recently in 2011 (US Patent 20110000669) by Halliburton (think: oil, gas, armaments, missiles, Dick Cheney) entitled “Perforating gun assembly and method for controlling wellbore pressure during perforating”. The patent specifically refers to Depleted Uranium.
*Second is radiation exposure and radioactive contamination of the development areas due to toxic chemicals forced down the bore hole and the release of natural substances below the surface trapped by gravity.
Locked up in the strata into which they pump the pressurized process water, to fracture and thus create the huge surface area sponge which will yield up its cargo of gas and oil, is a monstrous amount of natural uranium and its deadly daughter Radium-226. And vast amounts of the radioactive alpha emitting gas Radon-222, and its own daughters Bismuth 214, Lead-210 and the alpha emitter Polonium-210. Remember Polonium-210? That was the material used when a few millionths of a gram poisoned ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Deep down in the earth, there is a lot of radioactivity, which is safe enough, so long as it is not brought up to the surface. The technical term is NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material). When it is brought to the surface it becomes Technologically Enhanced, or TENORM, and it is a serious health problem near oil wells and gas production sites. It is in the production water, in the oil, in the gas, around the production sites, the groundwater, in the pipes and tanks – and in your kitchen.
So not only is there a lot of natural radioactive material surfacing in the gas or oil stream, and the production water, there is the possibility also a lot of unnatural radioactivity coming up from the DU shaped charges. And besides the fact that Depleted Uranium is the most efficient of these shaped charge metals, let’s not forget the attraction to the US nuclear industry of a way of getting rid of its vast stocks of Depleted Uranium, or even natural Uranium, or even nuclear waste. I mean, who is going to look at the radioactivity in the process water? It will be radioactive from the Radium and Radon daughters anyway. You would need to carry out some sophisticated analysis to see if it contained any nasty man-made radionuclides, especially DU nanoparticles.
Setting a match to the flow of water coming from a kitchen tap (Gasland video) is only one of a multitude of symptoms in cause and effect.
*Third is that the Fracking process consumes vast amounts of water which has led to areas of Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming facing a dire water crisis. Yet to be named is Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Louisiana. Louisiana is also dealing with another environment concern, the Bayou Carnie Sinkhole. http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/
*Forth is that fracking produces a disproportionate amount of waste, including radioactive water, which then has to be dumped somewhere. Majority of Gas Well Pads are located in fields accompanied by bulldozed dirt roads leading in and out of the area. Reports have surfaced, of gas/oil companies spraying the dirt roads down with water (?) to kept the complaints of dust clouds forming due to constant activity and use by heavy industrial trucks. Type of water used to spray the dirt roads is still in the investigative process - to determine if "waste water" is being used?
Considering the history and use of fluoride in our drinking water, radio active materials including depleted uranium will destroy local wells, streams and community reservoirs. Eventually, water will have to be piped in through another set of pipelines crisscrossing the U.S. from uncontaminated aquifers abroad.