Methane Found in Well Water Near Fracking Sites

Methane Found in Well Water Near Fracking Sites

Study to Assess Health Effects of Railyard In June 2011 California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District announced the launch of a two-year study on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railyard in San Bernardino, a major transportation hub for the Los Angeles –Long Beach port complex. The study, to be conducted by Loma Linda University, will examine respiratory diseases and cancer among 1,...

Well, well, well water.

Although the multiplication of bacteriophages (phages) has a substantial impact on the biosphere, comparatively little is known about how the external environment affects phage production. Here we report that sub-lethal concentrations of certain antibiotics can substantially stimulate the host bacterial cell’s production of some virulent phage. For example, a low dosage of cefotaxime, a cephalo...

Near-coastal water quality at reference sites following storm events.

Stormwater is a challenging source of coastal pollution to abate because stormwater also involves complex natural processes, and differentiating these processes from anthropogenic excesses is difficult. The goal of this study was to identify the natural concentrations of stormwater constituents along the 1377 km coastline of California, USA. Twenty-eight ocean reference sites, a priori defined ...

Well Evaluation for Coalbed Methane

Hydraulic "fracking": are surface water impacts an ecological concern?

Use of high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in unconventional reservoirs to recover previously inaccessible oil and natural gas is rapidly expanding in North America and elsewhere. Although hydraulic fracturing has been practiced for decades, the advent of more technologically advanced horizontal drilling coupled with improved slickwater chemical formulations has allowed extensive natural ga...