HARARISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: …More huge trucks will travel up and down state forest roads to deliver drilling equipment. When it’s time to hydraulically fracture the wells, which breaks loose the gas, more convoys of trucks will haul in the 5 million gallons of water that each of the wells typically requires.
Even if drillers cut truck traffic by diverting streams, building impoundments and running water pipelines to their fracking jobs, they still have to store or haul away the chemical-laden, sometimes radioactive water that comes back up after fracking.
In the dry season, all that truck traffic will kick up clouds of dust. Running all those trucks and drills will pump large amounts of diesel exhaust into the supposedly fresh forest air.
Producing more gas will require more construction crews laying more pipelines and building more compressor stations, where the racket from their noisy pumps can be heard at great distances 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year long… (more)
