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Geochemical evaluation of flowback brine from Marcellus gas wells in Pennsylvania, USA
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In this article, the authors assessed the composition of flowback waters from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania, USA and found that the greatest concentration of Cl− in flowback water is 151,000mg/L.About:
This article is published in Applied Geochemistry.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 496 citations till now.read more
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Impact of shale gas development on regional water quality
TL;DR: Improved understanding of the fate and transport of contaminants of concern and increased long-term monitoring and data dissemination will help effectively manage water-quality risks associated with unconventional gas industry today and in the future.
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A Critical Review of the Risks to Water Resources from Unconventional Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States
Avner Vengosh,Robert B. Jackson,Robert B. Jackson,Nathaniel R. Warner,Thomas H. Darrah,Andrew J. Kondash +5 more
TL;DR: Analysis of published data reveals evidence for stray gas contamination, surface water impacts in areas of intensive shale gas development, and the accumulation of radium isotopes in some disposal and spill sites.
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Desalination and reuse of high-salinity shale gas produced water: drivers, technologies, and future directions
Devin L. Shaffer,Laura H. Arias Chavez,Moshe Ben-Sasson,Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillón,Ngai Yin Yip,Menachem Elimelech +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that desalination for reuse of produced water is technically feasible and can be economically relevant, however, because produced water management is primarily an economic decision, expanding desalinated for reuse is dependent on process and material improvements to reduce capital and operating costs.
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A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands
Ellen R. Herbert,Paul I. Boon,Amy J. Burgin,Scott C. Neubauer,Rima B. Franklin,Marcelo Ardón,Kristine N. Hopfensperger,Leon P. M. Lamers,Peter Gell +8 more
TL;DR: Salinization, a widespread threat to the structure and ecological functioning of inland and coastal wetlands, is currently occurring at an unprecedented rate and geographic scale as discussed by the authors, and the causes of salinization are diverse and include alterations to freshwater flows, land-clearance, irrigation, disposal of wastewater effluent, sea level rise, storm surges, and applications of de-icing salts.
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Impacts of shale gas wastewater disposal on water quality in western Pennsylvania.
TL;DR: Elevated levels of chloride and bromide, combined with the strontium, radium, oxygen, and hydrogen isotopic compositions of the effluents reflect the composition of Marcellus Shale produced waters, posing potential environmental risks of radium bioaccumulation in localized areas of shale gas wastewater disposal.
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Water Management Challenges Associated with the Production of Shale Gas by Hydraulic Fracturing
TL;DR: Water management has emerged as a critical issue in the development of these inland gas reservoirs, where hydraulic fracturing is used to liberate the gas as discussed by the authors, where large volumes of water containing very high concentrations of total dissolved solids (TDS) return to the surface.
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Natural gas: Should fracking stop?
TL;DR: Extracting gas from shale increases the availability of this resource, but the health and environmental risks may be too high.
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The evaporation path of seawater and the coprecipitation of Br- and K+ with halite.
TL;DR: Brines and salt were sampled at the Morton Bahamas solar salt production facility on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas and analyzed by ion chromatography to define more precisely than heretofore the evaporation path of seawater to the end of the halite facies.
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Geochemical evidence for possible natural migration of Marcellus Formation brine to shallow aquifers in Pennsylvania
Nathaniel R. Warner,Robert B. Jackson,Thomas H. Darrah,Stephen G. Osborn,Adrian Down,Kaiguang Zhao,Alissa White,Avner Vengosh +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present geochemical evidence from northeastern Pennsylvania showing that pathways, unrelated to recent drilling activities, exist in some locations between deep underlying formations and shallow drinking water aquifers.
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Drinking water contaminants.
TL;DR: Drinking water sources may contain a variety of contaminants that are associated with increased risk of a range of diseases in children, including acute diseases such as gastrointestinal illness, developmental effects such as learning disorders, endocrine disruption, and cancer.