A | B |
Person who signed the Clean Water Act into law. | Richard Nixon |
Year the Clean Water Act was signed into law. | 1972 |
States that contain the Marcellus Shale Formation | NY, PA, MD, WV, OH, VA, KY, TN |
Name the politician who strongly supported the Halliburton Loophole. | Dick Chaney |
Produced Water (def) | Water that comes back out of the fracking well after it has been mixed with fracking fluid |
Fracking Fluid (def) | A mixture of 596 chemicals- including Ethylbenzene (a known carcinogen) |
Frac Act (def) | Act that would repeal the exemption of hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Water Drinking Act |
Surfactants (def) | Substances that lower the surface tension of a liquid, the interfacial tension between two liquids, or that between a liquid and a solid |
Amount of water used each time a well is drilled | Between 1 to 7 million gallons of water each time it is drilled |
True or False: A well can be fracked multiple times | True |
The "Red Zone" in Colorado is called this because | Extremely high number of fracking wells |
What did Weston Wilson, a 20 year employee of the EPA say was a conflict | The peer review panel that authored the report five of seven members seemed to have a conflict of interest and would benefit from not having the EPA perform an investigation |
Glycol Ethers (def) | A chemical that is used as an antifreeze in hydraulic fracturing that is known to cause malformation of embryos and bone marrow depression |
What did Dr. Theo Colborn do about fracking? | Performed an investigation that determined 596 of the chemicals found in fracking fluid |
3 Health consequences people of Garfield County have suffered after fracking occurred in their area | Faintness, Loss of smell & Brain Lesions |
Which creek was flamable when 115 million cubic feet of natural gas seeped into it | Divide Creek |
Pollution in Louisiana has caused a lot of this type of poisioning | Arsenic |
What is represented by letter A in diagram,  | Separator |
What is represented by letter B in diagram,  | Drill Rig |
What is represented by letter C in diagram,  | Evaporation Sprayers |
What is represented by letter D in diagram,  | Flow Back Pit |
What is represented by letter E in diagram,  | Condensate Tanks |