This document provides an introduction to horizontal hydrofracturing, or "fracking". It discusses the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock formations using hydraulic fracturing techniques. Key points include: natural gas makes up a significant portion of US energy production and its extraction from shale has increased dramatically in recent years; the hydrofracturing process involves drilling horizontally into shale and injecting a high-volume of water and chemicals to fracture the rock; this "slickwater fracking" technique has raised health and environmental concerns; and more research is still needed to understand the potential public health impacts of hydrofracturing activities and emissions.
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2. Where do we get our energy?
other
renewables
2%
nuclear
8%
hydropower
3%
natural gas
26%
coal
20%
biomass
5%
petroleum
36%
3. How do we use natural gas?
31%
19%
13%
34%
3%
Electricity
Residential
Commercial
Industrial
Transportation
4. What is natural gas?
• Formed by organic matter (marine organisms)
trapped in sedimentary rocks
• Flows like a liquid through pores in rocks
• Natural gas is one of the lightest (‘thermally
mature’) forms of petrochemicals (oil)
• “Conventional” natural gas collects in porous
rock (sandstone) domes
• “Unconventional” natural gas remains trapped
in pores in tighter rocks (shale)
6. Hydraulic Fracturing
• Technique for extracting natural gas from
“tight” rock structures deep below surface
• Has been used since 1950’s
• Hydraulic Fracturing involves
– Drilling a well deep down below earth
– Turning drill to horizontal
– Inject 500,000 gallons of fluid to fracture shale
– Fluid is 99% water plus sand and chemicals
– Extracting natural gas
7. “High-Volume Slick-Water Horizontal Hydraulic
Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale”
High-Volume: 5 to 10 million gallons of water per well
Slick-Water: chemicals and sand in injected water
Horizontal: drill down up to 10,000 feet, turn horizontally
so well extends up to 1 mile from well head (drill site)
Hydraulic Fracturing: high pressure fluid used to extract
natural gas from rock
Marcellus Shale: Rock formation in NY, PA, OH, WV
where HVHV has been taking place since 2005; other
shale layers may be drilled later
“Unconventional Shale-Gas Extraction”
“Fracking”
13. Status of Fracking in NYS
• Currently, not permitted
• Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
needed prior to permitting
• Waiting for NYS Department of
Environmental Conservation (DEC)
approval of Generic EIS (GEIS)
• “Health review” by NYSDOH
14. What is the evidence – and
information needs - for health
effects of hydrofracking?
Depends on…
• What is ‘hydrofracking’?
• What is a ‘health effect’?
• What counts as ‘evidence’?
17. What is ‘hydrofracking’?
• Industrial practice of injecting fluids into
shale
• All activities at well site (drilling, fracking,
flaring, storage of water/chemicals)
• Physical processes associated with
unconventional shale gas extraction
(trucks, compressor stations, pipelines)
• Changes in communities and economies
resulting from shale gas development
18. 1:What is ‘hydrofracking’?
• Industrial practice of injecting fluids into
shale
• All activities at well site (drilling, fracking,
flaring, storage of water/chemicals)
• Physical processes associated with
unconventional shale gas extraction
(trucks, compressor stations, pipelines)
• Changes in communities and economies
resulting from shale gas development
19. 2. What is a ‘health effect’?
• Health impacts/symptoms directly caused
by hydrofracking
• Changes in incidence of disease
associated with increased hydrofracking
• Changes in environmental quality or
animal health that could affect humans
• Well-being/quality of life (stress, conflict,
wealth, sense of belonging/community)
20. Worker health and safety
• Exposure: occupational
• “Typical” industrial/mechanical injuries
(falls, accidents)
• Chemical burns/exposures
• Air emissions
• Silica sand
21. Surface water and health
• Exposure: fish/game consumption, air,
contact recreation, farm animals
• Fracking chemicals/flowback water
• Spills
• Waste water disposal
• Changes in water quantity/flow displacing
other uses (agriculture, wildlife, etc.)
22. Ground water and health
• Exposure: private drinking water wells
• Methane
• Fracking chemicals
• NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive
Materials)
• Naturally occurring heavy metals
• Chemical interactions
23. Air quality and health
• Exposure: inhaled by workers, neighbors,
regional communities
• Diesel engines (trucks, compressors, etc.)
– particulates, ozone precursors
• Fugitive emissions from wells
• Evaporation from storage ponds
• Aggregate/cumulative impacts
24. Disasters, accidents and health
• Flooding may wash chemicals into local
waters/contaminate soil
• Earthquakes associated with injection
wells
• Explosions/spills may cause injury or
contaminate environment
25. Community health
• Noise and light pollution
• Stress and mental health (environmental
concerns, economic change, conflict)
• Population/community change (workers)
• Impacts on health services (visits to
emergency room, disaster/spill response,
new disease concerns)
• Increased housing costs/demand
• Benefits from improved economy
26. 3: What counts as ‘evidence’?
• Stories/reports from affected citizens,
health care providers, or organizations
• Newspaper articles
• Evidence of past impact?
• Predictions of future impacts?
• Government agency reports
• Peer-reviewed publications
27. Does uncertainty trump
knowledge?
• What will be the extent of drilling, where,
over what time?
• What engineering practices, control
systems, and mitigation will be used?
• What chemicals are used, released, how
much, where, when?
• What are the health effects of exposures?
• Accidents, spills, natural disasters…
28. Can decisions be ‘science-
based’ despite uncertainty?
• “More research is needed”
• Precautionary principle
• Regulate, monitor and manage
• Pilot test (adaptive management)
• Uncertainty will persist
– Latency of health impacts
– Variation in geography/technology
– Long-term processes
– Unpredictable events
29. Tapping into public health
• Beyond “environment versus economics”
• Public health professionals as a resource:
– Communication networks
– Access to health data/analysis
– Local monitoring/management
• Body of experience includes:
– Disaster response (Gulf Oil, flooding)
– Emerging disease
– Surveillance/epidemiology
30. American Public Health Association
“The public health perspective has been inadequately
represented in policy processes related to HVHF.
Policies that anticipate potential public health threats,
require greater transparency, use a precautionary
approach in the face of uncertainty, and provide for
monitoring and adaptation as understanding of risks
increases may significantly reduce negative public health
impacts of this approach to natural gas extraction.”
Policy statement 20125 “The Environmental and Occupational Health
Impacts of High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing of Unconventional Gas
Reserves” is publicly available in the APHA policy statement
database. Here is the direct link:
http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm?id=14
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31. Challenges of discussing
hydrofracking
• Polarized:
– Big business v. small communities
– Environment v. economy
– Fracking v. no-fracking
• Distribution of costs and benefits
• Multidiscplinarity – different “frames”
• Uncertainty and conflicting information
• “People listen to people who agree with
them”
33. Upcoming Events on Hydrofracking
• Tuesday, April 16 7pm at RIT
Rochester Committee on Scientific Information
Dr. Richard Young and Thomas Shelley
Xerox Aud – Rm 2580, James E. Gleason (Engineering) Building 9
• Wednesday, April 17, 2:30pm at SUNY Geneseo
“Fighting Fracking: A View From the Trenches”
David & Helen Slottje:
MacVittie College Union Ballroom
• Friday, April 19 2pm at UR
Assessing Emissions from the Transport of Sand, Water, and Waste in
High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Activities
Dr. Karl Korfmacher
Dewey 2-110D
• Thursday, May 9, 6pm at RIT
Dr. David Carpenter and Dr. David Kowalski
NTID Panera Auditorium