Thanks for the link, Lurleen. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to get a statewide dataset with location coordinates through this method. The RRC does have a lot of data available for free though.

Matt

We don’t have any data like that from Texas. We do have instances of drilling affecting groundwater in Pennsylvania and pits affecting groundwater in New Mexico though.

Matt

My more immediate concern is our well. Any data that shows that fracking is impacting water pulled from that aquifer in our area?

Thanks.

I’ll save them a lot of time and money. YES, THERE IS A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRACKING AND INCREASED SEISMIC ACTIVITY!!! Anyone who has studied this subject longer than 30 minutes online can find more than enough associative data to conclusively prove this to themselves, and anyone with enough sense to keep breathing!

Beyond all that crap, there is a really simple experiment you can do in your own backyard that will SHOW YOU! Take a decent size wheel-barrel, lay your garden hose nozzle in the wheel-barrel, and bury it with a load of dirt. Fill the wheel-barrel so that the dirt is about an inch or so from the lip on the shallow end. Next turn on the water, and wait. As the water displaces the dirt under the surface, it will turn it into mud, and the air between the grains of dirt will be released. After a short period of time, a cavity will develop under the dirt, and eventually a small hole will collapse into the cavity… Take a really good look at the hole, and then look at a picture of a “sink-hole”…… Then look up “sink-hole” in maps, and fracking in maps…. Compare and contrast the two images. If you can come away with an impression other than “fracking causes sink-holes”, you are most likely working for an oil company….

-Oz

So because they rape you for public information, you cannot forward it to the public out of interest for the public good…. You’ve got to be kidding me. I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, the state of Texas is in a DROUGHT most likely brought on, or at least exacerbated by the FRACKING BOOM IN TEXAS! I think it is in the public interest given the gravity of the situation (that it takes approximately 3 gallons of water to get one gallon of oil out. I know that a lot of what is being fracked is natural gas, but to my knowledge “HYDROLIC” means it uses WATER) and the specific lack of mention in the news about this corollary.

The oil and gas industry would have us all believe that fracking has zero environmental impact, but we all know that is bunk. To hold back data about it now is to be held suspect of complicity in the cover up…. Sorry charlie, we are too far down this road to find safety anywhere else but DISCLOSURE! ….because with disclosure comes RESOLUTION!

-Oz

Hi Jeff,

We are in the process of revisiting the Texas data. Texas is unique in that they charge the general public for location data. To turn around redistribute that data for free could easily be construed as undermining their efforts (and their revenue source). However, some groups that we have been working with have gotten responses from the RRC that indicate that it might be OK to do. If we can get a more definitive response, then we will definitely add Texas well data to the site.

Matt Kelso
Manager of Data and Technology

Thanks!