It's a great photo of the fracking tankers at the southwest Williston water depot.
Incredible.
I have no idea why they put in such a huge water depot inside city limits on a very busy city street, and not on the truck reliever route.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Mercy Sakes Alive, Looks Like We Got Us a Convoy! -- Photo of Fracking Tankers at Southwest Williston Water Depot -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA
Hopefully this photo won't disappear into the ethernet.
It's a great photo of the fracking tankers at the southwest Williston water depot.
Incredible.
I have no idea why they put in such a huge water depot inside city limits on a very busy city street, and not on the truck reliever route.
Convoy, C W McCall
It's a great photo of the fracking tankers at the southwest Williston water depot.
Incredible.
I have no idea why they put in such a huge water depot inside city limits on a very busy city street, and not on the truck reliever route.
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Easy answer: It was built before local citizens (and nearly everyone else) had any grasp of what the effects of horizontal drilling would be.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I have missed where you have previously made the point, but I don't think you have emphasized enough the drastic shortage of infrastructure to conveniently distribute the water supply in ND. Instead, I read where you continually emphasize that ND had plenty of water. True, but that point is perhaps even less than 1/2 of the story.
Two issues were raised.
ReplyDeleteFirst.
"It was built before any [one] had a grasp of what the effects..."]
Not true. They built this during the summer of 2011; Harold Hamm has been talking about the magnitude of the Bakken for several years. I watched them expand this depot through this summer and autumn and kept wondering why they put it here. The depot has been here for decades, but they are laying hundreds of miles of new water pipeline (WAWS) and they could have put new fracking water depots almost anywhere. No, it makes no sense to have expanded this depot. WAWS pipeline along US 85 just north of the river would have been a perfect location; along the proposed truck reliever route would have been another location.
Second: enough water for fracking is "perhaps even less than 1/2 the story."
No, the fact that ND has more than enough water for fracking is the entire story. Distribution and planning is another story.
With hundreds of miles of WAWS being put in, there is no infrastructure problem for water distribution. "WAWS Central" is linked at the sidebar at the right.