Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Energy
 
Board
Department of Energy
 
chapter
Gas and Oil Regulation [4 VAC 25 ‑ 150]
Action Expanding disclosure of ingredients used in well stimulation & completion & reviewing best practices
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 12/4/2015
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11/20/15  9:36 am
Commenter:  

Fracking in King George County & The State
 

Years ago, I was looking into stocks and invents, I came across some articles about abstracting oil from the bedrocks in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and other states that had this basin of oil rock. Back in the 1940s, stock was sold for this basin, only fools bought this stock, and at time there was no means of abstracting the oil from the rock. This became as known as oil sheal.

   I remember this on article, that stated that, when a method is developed to abstract the oil from the rock basin it would be an enviromental disastered. Then came Dutch Oil Shell Corporation that devised a way to abstract the oil sheal. The process takes 55 million gallons of water to drill one well, while injecting these hazardous chemicals, to create a gas field. Then the water is pumped into a return well, Our Drinking Water.

The State of New York Ban Fracking, why not Virginia ? Last year King George County issued some permits for the fracking process and the well water was unfit to drink. I had my water tested and the Ph alone was high as 8.6. The ph in April 2014 was a perfect 7.0, now the water is fit to drink again, maybe the contamination has gone down futher towards the Northen Neck infecting Livestock and other people ?

  These Gas fields do not last even 2 years in some cases and fracking also causes earth tremors, known to happen in Pennsylvania and other countries in the world.

  I strongly urged The State of Virginia to bad this process within the State.

 

 

 

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