University of Texas to study gas drilling impacts

Source: businessweek.co Posted By: Jacky S...4946 days ago

University of Texas at Austin officials say the school will study the environmental impact of natural gas drilling and whether existing regulation properly oversees a key process that pumps chemical-laced water into subterranean rock.

Drillers make rocks known as shale formations more permeable though a method called hydraulic fracturing that allows the gas to flow out. The process has been used for decades, but now companies are "fracking" while also drilling horizontally, a tactic that only....

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