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Environmentally Sustainable Water Solution For Oil And Gas Industry In Texas, New Mexico And The Dakotas
2013-11-05 06:16:04| oilandgasonline News Articles
Fracking is causing a rapid growth of oil and gas production in the United States. A large number of production sites are expected to be drilled and developed in the Eagle ford and Permian basins in Texas
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Frackers guzzle water as Texas goes thirsty
2013-09-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: In summer, the bison on Thunderheart Ranch opt for the feathery shade of a mesquite tree as temperatures reach 100. This land, just a handful of miles from the Mexican border, was once known as The Wild Horse Desert, lawless, rough brush country where, in a good year, 21 inches of rain fell and in a bad year, less than a dozen descended from the clouds. "My grandfather used to say we get two 10-inch rains and never get the other inch," says Hugh Fitzsimmons, owner of the 13,000-acre ranch. Fitzsimmons...
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Around oil and gas fields in Texas, water supplies run thin
2013-08-29 14:36:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: Jack Watts has been drilling water wells in the countryside around Fort Worth for decades. And in the last five years he has seen something he says hes never seen before. Customers around the natural gas fields atop the Barnett Shale are turning on their taps to find their wells have run dry, the victim of falling groundwater levels beneath their homes. Before, you just had the cities and the co-ops and ranchers watering their cattle, some dry-land farming, Watts said. But with the shale...
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East Texas city's 'water burnout' begins Thursday
2013-08-08 01:38:29| Waste Management - Topix.net
This comes after a study by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which found Palestine's water was not maintaining the required chemical balance throughout its entire system.
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Boil water order lifted for Texas town after blast
2013-07-10 15:44:08| Waste Management - Topix.net
Experts say it's now safe to drink water from all public supplies in a Central Texas town decimated nearly three months ago by a deadly fertilizer plant blast.