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The water is pumped back out, but it is high polluted. It is so polluted that according to the documentary, the water recycling places that most North American cities have can't clean it.
So what they did was create something called Evaporation ponds to let the water evaporate then clean the sludge left behind. They stopped doing this 3 years ago because it didn't work, it created more airborne pollution, and probably killed every bird that landed in it for a rest or a drink.
Now what they do is drill more holes and pump the water back underground. STUPID because it just gets into the water table and pollutes it too, sooner or later.
We have been looking around at buying a house here in Montreal, and in alot of places, new houses are heated not by oil or electricity, but by natural gas. Now that I've seen this documentary there's no way I would ever buy a house heated with this crap. Even regular oil is less polluting than natural gas from fracking.
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well they pump it so far underground that it goes way beyond the water table, for the time being at least but the bottom line is that water is no longer useable and if they keep pumping it underground and it actually stays there, its beyond the water table and therefore gone forever. not to mention causes small earthquakes.
they touched on a new process that reuses the water/chemical mixture over and over again for fracking which seems better but apparently is more expensive and therefore not a desirable option. they should at least make that process mandatory.
since harper is sucking the energy industry's dick there is no chance of anything happening federally to stop fracking, the only hope is at the provincial level. BC and alberta residents don't mine sacrificing their land for the revenue energy companies bring in but hopefullly other provinces aren't so short sighted.