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Originally Posted by fastfredracing
I used to think Fracking was a good idea, until it was in my back yard.
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It is definitely a mixed blessing. Eagle-Ford in S. Texas is making a lot of people rich and generating a lot of jobs but is forever altering that area in many not so good ways that may well come back to haunt it.
The Cline shell formation in N. Central TX is just beginning to start up and this formation is supposed to contain
much more oil and gas than Bakken or Eagle Ford. That area (from west of Abilene to the Permian Basin (Odessa - famous or infamous for "Friday Night Lights") has already seen more than it's share of oil booms and busts. The difference this time: where are they going to get the massive amounts of water required by fracking? That area (and most of TX) is well into our second year of historic drought conditions and even in the best of times water is always a big issue in S, W and N TX. This issue is not only protecting what little ground water there is from getting polluted - it may come to do you use your water to frack or to drink ??