August 12th, 2013
Via ThinkProgress, another report on Texas’ watergy crisis: How dry is it in Texas? So dry some residents are wishing for a hurricane to replenish the aquifer. So dry that many Texans are now against using water to frack for oil, which is famously called Texas Tea. Every fracking job requires several million gallons of […]
Read more »China Takes A Keen Interest In Water-Energy Connections
August 12th, 2013
Via Circle of Blue, a report on a team of American and Chinese water and energy specialists who are meeting in Beijing with the environmental scientists and sustainability experts of the Development Research Center of the State Council, the government research group that provides policy recommendations to China’s highest executive agency: Almost three years ago […]
Read more »August 12th, 2013
Via North Dakota’s InForum, an interesting article on a new state report that shows the volume of water used to produce oil in the booming Bakken Formation appears to have plateaued after more than four years of rapid growth: The volume of water used to produce oil in the booming Bakken Formation appears to have […]
Read more »A Texan Tragedy: Ample Oil, No Water
August 12th, 2013
Via The Guardian, an interesting article on how the fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty: Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime […]
Read more »August 11th, 2013
Via EDF’s Energy Exchange blog, a look at Texas’ efforts to manage the watergy nexus: As we’ve highlighted in previous posts, water and energy regulators often make decisions in silos, despite the inherent connection between these two sectors. Texas is no exception. Two very important and intertwined events are happening in Texas right now. First, […]
Read more »The Watergy Paradox
August 11th, 2013
Via MyWestTexas.com, an article on the water energy paradox, and the possibility that the oil and gas industry will switch en mass to tapping brackish aquifers for hydraulic fracturing within five years: Water and energy are hopelessly entangled — you can’t have one without the other. But figuring out how to get either cleanly and […]
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