Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Badger Daylighting, COGC, EOG Resources, fracking, fracking waste, Garden Creek 7-14H, Garden Creek O7-14H, Grove, hydraulic fracturing, radioactive fracking sand, radioactive fracking waste, radionucleides, Weld County, WTF
With articles like this, you’ve got to wonder.
Hydraulic fracturing involves the use of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand.
Occasionally, some of that sand is radioactive.
Oh. You don’t say.
The state is investigating a possible inappropriate dumping of fracking-related radioactive sand into an unpermitted pit at an EOG Resources oil well in northern Weld County northwest of Grover.
The radioactive sand dumping occurred March 8 during a state field inspection of an oil well known as the Garden Creek 28-07H well, the Coloradoan’s search of state oil well inspection records revealed.
via State investigating radioactive sand dumping related to fracking | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: COGC, Colorado Oil and Gas Commission, drilling regulations, EOG Resources, fracking, fracking sand, Garden Creek 07-14H, Niobrara, oil production, radioactive fracking sand, tight oil, Weld County
A sensitive area due to shallow groundwater. According to a site assessment, groundwater is 20 feet below the surface.
http://ogccweblink.state.co.us/results.aspx?id=415806