Texas Railroad Commission says there’s enough water for Eagle Ford fracking
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January 28, 2012, 05:00
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Eagle Ford, frack, fracking, Texas Railroad Commission, water consumption
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Eagle Ford, frack, fracking, Texas Railroad Commission, water consumption
According to http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=114624&hmpn=1
But check the math. The figures below come from the article.
— 540,000 acre feet in the aquifer when the fracking began.
— 30,000 acre feet per year used by fracking at peak demand.
— fracking supposedly accounts for only 6% of total aquifer usage. Agriculture takes 65%.
This implies that the entire aquifer would be consumed within a few years.
Even if the frack water amounted to 25% of water usage, the aquifer would be gone in under five years. I have seen claims of up to 40% frack water usage in S. Texas — if that’s true, and the other figures are true, the aquifer would be gone in seven or eight years.
In any case, something’s not adding up here.
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