For many thousands of words, I have consistently said - or more correctly my characters have said - that hydrofracking uses about a million gallons of water per well drilled. Out of that, about half to two-thirds comes back up as wastewater. The wastewater is a nasty cocktail with the toxic chemicals in it that the gas companies put down plus a healthy dose of radiation and other toxic crap from thousands of feet below the earth's surface.
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| Even more the Morlocks oppose hydrofracking |
At least that's what I thought.
It turns out that in fact many of these wells are using a lot more than a million gallons.
In Michigan, a new fracking record was just set with a well using 21 million gallons. That's not a typo - 21 million gallons of water. Doing the math that says from that well alone about 10-15 million gallons of water came back up and needs to be disposed of in a toxic waste area. Or as gas companies have been doing in Ohio and other places, simply dumped back into the ground in deep disposal wells.
Better hope the Morlocks living underground don't mind.
In the meantime, I have to finish this book before it's discovered this technology causes earthquakes.
Oh crap, researchers already concluded that.
