Shale boom impacts many businesses, even mulch
Thursday, December 4, 2014
The shale industry has impacted various other industries and businesses, even ones that don’t seem like they’re related to oil and gas. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PowerSource reports that Eric Vaccarello’s companies are thriving along with the oil and gas boom.
Vaccarello’s companies — Land Clearing Specialists Inc., Wood Waste Recycling and Absolute Reclamation Services — provide the services needed for oil and gas companies. While land is being cleared, Vaccarello’s team hauls away trees and shrubbery and recycles them into mulch. This mulch is then used for site remediation as well as land reclamation. Some of the companies he clears land for are Consol Energy, Range Resources and MarkWest Energy Partners Inc.
From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PowerSource:
“About half of the 600 total jobs finished by his land clearing company in the last year came from the gas industry and mostly involved drilling sites that are usually about 15 acres and take two weeks to clear.”
Via: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PowerSource > Gas boom means more … mulch?
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What is fracking?
Fracking is a slang term for hydraulic fracturing. Fracturing is a process by which highly pressurized fluid is pumped thousands of feet into the ground to fracture rock formations. The goal is to release the natural gas that’s locked inside the rock.
Is it safe?
What most concerns people about fracturing is ground water contamination. The worry is that fractures underground, caused by the process, will extending upwards and into aquifers, releasing gas and chemicals into the ground water supply. There’s been no confirmed reports of such a thing happening. Though surface spills and drill site blowouts can lead to localized environmental concerns.
Will my water catch on fire?
Flammable water is caused by the release of methane gas into a drinking water supply. Methane gas occurs naturally and can be released by any kind of drilling, including water wells. In Pennsylvania officials fined Chesapeake Energy $1 million for contaminating ground water with methane. It was determined that the company had not properly cemented it’s boreholes and gas migrated up the well, between rock and into aquifers.