Global drive for new energy boosts fracking activity

• Autores: Emma Hughes
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 546, 2013
• Idioma: inglés
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  • There have also been positive developments in fracking legislation, with the New Jersey fracking ban lifted, while New York, which has seen its fracking activity halted by a three-year moratorium passed in 2010, heard that permits could be delivered within the next few weeks providing a public health review into the process adequately addresses concerns.

    In the state of Illinois, the city of St Charles experienced opposition to silica sand mining in early January as a group of concerned citizens gathered to ask the city board to immediately ban all frac sand mining, processing and transportation within the town. The residents hope to block plans by Minnesota Proppants LLC for a 3m tpa frac sand processing and transportation facility in the city, as well as any other silica sand projects, due to potential health and environmental impacts.

    A new technology has been developed in the US that could solve fracking contamination disputes by assigning a unique'tracer' code to individual projects. BaseTrace, a spin-off from Duke University, says its new technology based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), assigns a unique code to fracking fluid, enabling the identification of a water contamination source.