有哪些替代方法可以使压裂降低影响力?
虽然压裂液中的东西可能对环境有害,但没有适当地包含它,但有一些新的替代方法可以减少通常与液压压裂相关的废物量。
As Brian Nearing of the Times Union and Anthony Brino of InsideClimate News report, the treat to water resources that is posed by fracking can be mitigated with a new technology that’s already being used in Canada and could come to American gas fields in the near future: liquefied propane gas (LPG). The gas fracturing does not require the large amounts of water and reduces the need for what chemicals are used in fracking.
作者解释说,使用LPG还消除了裂缝后需要将水泵回表面的需求。
“与水不同,凝胶会在地下消失。它由于压力和热量而恢复为蒸气,然后返回地表,以及天然气,以收集,可能的再利用和最终转售,”接近和Brino写道。
尽管新兴技术开始从行业中获得支持,但液压压裂也正在从该行业以外的团体中收集更多的支持者。《伊萨卡杂志》指出,现在清洁增长 - 来自纽约州的16个商业和贸易集团的联盟,是为了在他们说的辩论中增加了另一种声音,他们说,他们说已被环保主义者和天然气公司所指挥。