St. Tammany Parish Residents Worry Fracking Will Harm Their Water
Category: GREEN
Frackers drill down many thousands of feet and then work horizontally. They inject water, sand or ceramic beads, and chemicals to create subsurface fissures. Oil and gas are extracted from those fissures. The water used rises back to the surface over time.
By Susan Buchanan, ContributorBusiness Writer, 2014-05-11