Marcellus Shale Drilling and Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
Following up on Ben’s post Tuesday – onshore oil and natural gas drilling can impact water in different ways: 1) Water withdrawals – drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) require large quantities of water. The high-volume slickwater fracking performed on Marcellus Shale gas wells can use up to 3 million gallons of water per frack. It’s […]