A congressional investigation has discovered that, between 2005 and 2009, companies engaging in the practice of hydrofracturing (fracking) to drill for natural gas pumped 32 million gallons of diesel or fluids containing diesel into the ground in the United States. U.S. Representatives Ed Markey, Diana DeGette and Henry Waxman have sent a letter to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and to Cliff Stearns, Chair of the House Subommittee on Oversight and Investigations, requesting further investigation and action to control the practice.
It is illegal under the Clean Water Act for companies to use fluids containing diesel in fracking operations without first obtaining a permit to do so. None of the companies that pumped diesel into the ground during the investigated period even attempted to gain permits to do so. They broke the law, purposefully, over and over again.
That really is scary! Let’s see they pumped Diesel, a refined product of crude oil back into a hole that contain crude oil. 32 MILLION gallons. Let’s see a cubic foot hold approx. 7.48 gallons of liguid, 32,000,000 divided by 7.48 equals 4278074.86 cubic feet of diesel, in the entire US. I think if you do the math that is a very small pond of liquid. A pond that is 200′X 200′ X 100′ deep contains 4,000,000 cubic feet of liquid. Wow I am scared….diesel, a derivative of crude pumped back in to a crude oil hole in that volume.
Let’s ask a real question? Is the Green lobby a front for big oil to restrict drilling and keep the price of gas and diesel high, or are you guys just that stupid?