Water contaminated shortly after hydraulic fracture

[classicalguitarchase]

These people SUCK that are doing this to all of us that drink water. these bastards probably drink their own urine

[TXsharon]

@classicalguitarchase Actually, if it happens to them, then they scream. I've witnessed it many times.

[uticaplay]

Question what was the water well depth in question here? What was the size and type of casing and age .of the water well? Why wasn't the neighbors well contaminated? Older water wells were cased with steel casing that can rust and allow the well to cave in upon its self and it allows the sand to collapse into the water. Had it happen to me no oil well was involved now my new well is on 4" PVC casing and PVC discharge pipe.

[towerofrebel]

How can I be an investigator of my own and travel to places near Frac Tech to test their water? I would love to fight for a good cause

[eiortiz89]

Yup that's frac sand alright. I've seen it millions of times in every shale and form. It's very possible for that to happen and then not tell anyone if the company man is shady. They do add chemicals, acids, gels, benzene. None of those are safe under any circumstances.

[egn83b]

just distill the water remove the heavy metals and sand. The other chemicals i don't know what you can do but bottle and sell them to the people who drilled the hole. Honestly you can have a tank put in and have water brought in from a truck and filtered on site is all you can do. The rest from the well will have to be sealed or used for toilet water.

[raythom32]

unfortunately this happens quite often. arkansas has similar problems. what is so sickening is the attitudes of these companies.

[Jemalacane]

Please tell me you were not serious when you said they drink the water!

[hixcrew]

stupid stupid people

[JakeEvilclown]

My family allowed frac drilling on their land in N.Y. poor fools. Hope they enjoy that little bit of money as they will probably be dead soon. 99% of the chemicals they use are cancer causing. If you drill through the water layer whats to keep the poison from fracing to the water table? A= NOTHING. Those chemicals have to go somewhere and they FRACTURE the rock so the water will have to be contaminated. It happens pretty fast doesn't it?

[stumpkicker100]

chasethinghav2014, if every frac job went as planned, you would be correct. How do you know that the casing did not rupture or the high pressure did not make its way to the water table through a fracture? Just wait until you are the victim and see how you feel. Another way it can get to water is when the flowback is dumped in earth pit and it seeps from the surface. Don't tell me that they don't do this. I have seen it with my own eyes.

[chasehav2014]

the facturing is thousands of ft below the the water table this is just bs and lies

[oceanmariel]

thanks sharon - very sad story, great tune...

Devon is participating in Domestic Terrorist Activities by deliberately poisoning your drinking water and environment, and should be sued on those grounds.

I imagine how quickly Homeland Security forces would be upon that scene if the perpetrator of the crime had a turban on his head!! Insanity!!

[SaveRuralUSA]

there was something in this video saying that the family has no water. what happened?? did the water company turn off the water or cap off the well after it was discovered to be contaminated. this is just awful!!

[TXsharon]

@SaveRuralUSA The last time I talked to them, they were getting their water from a garden hose stretched between their house and their neighbor's house. Their well was so clogged up with drilling mud it stopped working completely.

[rozpoznawaniemowy]

Who is responsible? Why Devon Energy refuses to take responsibility?

[MrWhylie]

@rozpoznawaniemowy

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[rozpoznawaniemowy]

@MrWhylie Y? maybe Devon E. states that ground water there was contaminated through the ages?

[jputterman26]

A brita filter will not remove most of these contaminants. It is simply unacceptable that Devon or any other fracker thinks it can poison people just so it can make more money. That is tantamount to premeditated murder.

[Killbride]

Is that residue from the contaminated water?? I see the hose washing something away, and it's not just the water..:/ It is so murky and tainted..

[TXsharon]

@Killbride That is drilling mud that is in the water. The water is not washing anything away, that gray stuff is in the water.

[Killbride]

@TXsharon Exactly what I suspected : ( I can see a thick layer of stuff on the ground. It's repulsive. It looks like clay...

[MrTobyHaynes]

you might want to invest in a brita water filter or at least a brita water pik

[MrTobyHaynes]

you might want to invest in a brita water filter

[bbrockes]

Where can I find these testing results you reference in the video? Are they posted anywhere on the web? Can you post them (a photo copy) on your blog? I would like to see them and it would add authenticity to your video and its claims. thank you

[TXsharon]

@bbrockes If you do some googling you can find some media reports and press releases. I have some on my blog. YouTube does not allow links in the comments.

[theninjasquasher]

i love this video it makes me cry

[lostbuffalo]

Takes time for loose minerals and sediments to be washed out of porosity or for them to solidify. frac'ing loosens up the bedrock making it porous. there will naturally be debris. Devon should be responsible for "making these people whole" as the law would say... providing this family with quality water.

energy production is a public service. it benefits everyone's lives... maybe it's time in america totanke energy public... not nationalize it but take it public at the state and local level.

[heyseed817]

BOO HOO ... Drill it, Frac it and flow it back..I love it

Im so glad flaring is back on the Barnett too... It adds a little more excitement to my job.

[TXsharon]

@heyseed817 I love it when ignorant, backward people make embarrassing comments. It makes for good comedic relief. Thanks.

[ezpowerequipment]

@heyseed817  If Sean hannity asked you to blow him u would

[BLACKIESBOY]

Ok... This is getting scary. Why the hell isn't anyone except that one filmmaker guy talking about this to the public?

[TXsharon]

@BLACKIESBOY Lots of people are talking about it, especially in other states but not so much in Texas. Some of our media is captured.

[westchesterneighbor]

@BLACKIESBOY: Now YOU know. As TXSharon said, our media is "captured." This industry has lots of power and keeps the print media under their control in both Dallas and Fort Worth...which is only 2 newspapers. There's so much being discussed about all of it from other sources.

[bev47201]

Just like someone once said, polish a turd, it's still a turd.....so, contamination is contamination, either because of the drilling or the fracking which are going hand in hand in this quest for natural gas, so either way, it needs to STOP!!!

[fracqualityhse]

thought this time line is often overlaped with any contamination showing up in the water supply frac has nothing to do with it. it is a common concusion that it comes form the frac job, though this is related to the drilling process. you should b harping on the drillers not the frac companys. The company i frac for uses a frac fluid system that is 100% FOOD GRADE. elxplain that to your friends. It takes time for the drilling contamination to show up but its is from the drilling process.

[fracqualityhse]

untill the first casing is completed it is likey and possible that the drilling mud used in this process with all the chemicals used can leech into the water table contaminating it. IF this were to occure it would take some time to see in the surrounding water wells. The residue showed in the video left in the driveway appears to me to be drilling mud residue. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HYDROLIC FRACTURING BUT THE DRILLING PROCESS. cont...l

[TXsharon]

@sacalyssa, what a great idea! Thanks for the tip.

[fracqualityhse]

@TXsharon After watching this video i am complelled to share some information. Though the video reported that the water contamination appeared after a frac job i belive that that is a misleader. When drillng for oil natural gas and condensate the rig drills through the water table. Drilling rigs us a substance refered to as drilling mud to carry the drill millings to the surface and to protect the drill bit. Once through the water table the drill hole is cased protecting the water table. cont.

[fracqualityhse]

Just so u know... once the first casing is in place a smaller drill bit is used to go inside that casing through the water table in to lower oil or gas producing formations and is subsiquently drilled cased and fraced for production. Wells can have anywhere frome one to 15 casings depending on the application and technique used. Hydrolic fracturing is used once in the inner most and deepest part of the cassing NO WHERE NEAR THE WATER TABLE. Though frac jobs occure reletively soon after a well is

[TXsharon]

@fracqualityhse Just so u know... I don't think the average person really cares how their water became contaminated--drilling process or hydraulic fracturing process. All they really care about is they have no water and the operator that is responsible for the contamination will not be responsible.

Industry keeps saying it is impossible for water to be contaminated from hydraulic fracturing but the same pattern repeats itself over and over again. That just doesn't wash.

[fracqualityhse]

If i were youl. i would start pushing for more horizontal drilling and less vertical wells. A single horizontal well can produce 7-10 what a single vertical well can: thus taking the place of 7-10 vertical wells and reducing the chance of water resivor contamination by 70-100%

[TXsharon]

@fracqualityhse You know what I'm pushing for? Clean renewable energy NOT dirty fossil fuels. I see that you joined YouTube today to just so you could post comments on this video. Maybe you work for Devon or the company that did this frack job. That might make you a tad bit impartial.

[TXsharon]

@fracqualityhse Dude, how the hell would you know anything about the timetable of this water contamination? These people have proof that that their water change right after fracking. It's the same pattern that repeats itself over and over and over.

[sacalyssa]

If you're upset with this company (anyone out there watching included), you should find out if you're an owner. Ticker Symbol is DVN. If you own the stock, you are an owner of the company. If you own a mutual fund with the stock you're a passive owner. That's how I found this video. I researched what I owned in my 401k and found a mutual fund with this as one of their top holdings. Then I researched the company and found this video. I was surprised to say the least and disappointed too.

[Zareste]

oho yeah, call your congressman so they'll know who to kill to help keep this under wraps

[mikeyoungtx]

Raised in West Texas it was well known that you didn't drink the water west of town. Unfortunately this is a by product of oil and gas production and it will continue on. I hear many people say the the frac process happens well below the water table, but as you can see the whole formation is disrupted.

The casing in the ground also deteriorates and this happens at all levels including the water table.

I am not sure what the answer, but I certainly feel for these owners of this property.

[TXsharon]

@mikeyoungtx I just updated the video with a link at the end. It's an action you can take that might help. We need hydraulic fracturing to be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Thank you for your interest!

[NetGenDesign]

I feel so bad for you guys. I wish there was something I could do to help you get clean water again for your family!!! More people need to know about what is happening!!

[TXsharon]

@NetGenDesign I just updated the video with a link at the end. It's an action you can take that might help. We need hydraulic fracturing to be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Thank you for your interest!

[Smith20106]

Wow I find it hard to beleave that the frac fluid would contain all the chemicals mention nor would there be communication with the water acquifer from the producing zone.Seems our economy has made people desperate.

[TXsharon]

@Smith20106 You can see the very long list of chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange. You can read industry's own literature to see that communication with water zones is a major concern witn the hydraulic fracturing process.

[turborabbit1114]

@TXsharon smith20106 just got TOLD!

[monabang]

These gas drilling executives need to feed the contaminated water that this drilling produces to his family and pets. Since Dick Cheney influenced the 2005 energy bill's passing which made these companies exempt from prosecution, our citizen continue to die and lose their livelihood and farms to pollution. So sad when your life is not worth a cent.

[fever972]

This is just one of the results of government by the corporations, for the corporations.

[crazycracker155]

that water was perfectly fine

[samwiseca1]

@dontbelieve...Oh I understand that, the issue I see is that we have Joe homeowner vs, big oil/gas. Big oil/gas is all lawyered up and will deny you into bankruptcy, on an individual level we can not fight these guys. It has to go class action, or we need congress to place more protections and requirements in place so that we can pinpoint the pollution as the fault of fraqing and then we can stop the process. Until we can prove it, they will keep doing it. Blaming it on natural process...

[samwiseca1]

Time to make these guys test water and air quality before and many times after drilling and production. These people flat out pollute our environment then lawyer yup and deny everything making the poor people that own the land to have to prove they have been violated. Little guys against the oil and gas giants, guess who wins...so sad this is what we have allowed our country to become.

[dontbelivewhatyourea]

@samwiseca1 But once the damage is done, it can't be undone!

[missboobeez]

Omg. I would love to get the Devon Energy people, as well as all the other gas company execs, to drink a glass of that water. The Bush administration allowed this to happen. The Obama administration must stop it. This is horrifying.

[real998877]

This is no good. I see how this works now. The hydraulic fracturing creates a miniature earthquake, allowing liquids, minerals, and gases to seep up from deep within - typically one mile deep. If they have injected diesel oil, ethylene glycol, or other chemicals down there, that may come up too.

[TXsharon]

@real998877 EXACTLY!!!

[jacknifedbl]

has the owner of this water well tried to get any help besides the mainstream jokes from the rrc? i know where they can get free help and free lawyers...........the big companies will do what ever they want untill some one says no......send me a message and i can put you in contact with them, and btw nice work over the last few years helping expose these problems when the were just starting, :)

[TXsharon]

@jacknifedbl You can send me a private message and I'll make sure the information gets to the Smiths. Thank you.