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In Dry Texas, Waterless Fracking Makes Headway
Posted by Texas Tribune: Kate Galbraith on April 1st, 2013
Texas Tribune: Call it hydraulic fracturing -- without the hydro.
In most hydraulic fracturing operations, several million gallons of water, together with sand and chemicals, get pumped down a hole to blast apart rock that encases oil or gas.
But with water increasingly scarce and expensive around Texas, a few companies have begun fracking with propane or other alternatives.
“We don’t use any water,” said Eric Tudor, a Houston-based official with GasFrac, a Canadian company that fracks with propane gel...
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Drought caused big drop in Texas portion of Ogallala
Posted by Texas Tribune: Kate Galbraith on July 3rd, 2012
Texas Tribune: The historic Texas drought caused the Ogallala Aquifer to experience its largest decline in 25 years across a large swath of the Texas Panhandle, new numbers from a water district show.
The 16-county High Plains Underground Water Conservation District reported this week that its monitoring wells showed an average decline last year of 2.56 feet -- the third-largest in the district's 61-year history, and three times the average rate over the past decade. Farmers pumped more water during the drought...