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Keywords
Air pollution
Cattle
Climate (campaign title)
Gas flares
Grass
Hydraulic fracturing
KWCI (GPI)
Oil (Industry)
Oil drilling
Oil shale mines
Outdoors
Ranches
Toxics (campaign title)
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Cattle Grazing near Hydrofracking Installation in Texas
Cattle graze in a field as gas flares from a pumping installation on the Eagle Ford Shale in Karnes County. The shale oil boom is going strong here south of San Antonio on a formation that stretches for about 300 miles across south Texas, one of the most prolific oil patches in the United States, In some areas the oil companies have discovered "sweet" spots and they are still drilling, while other areas have been cut back. Excess gas is burned off at oil pumping stations which dot the countryside.
Unique identifier:
GP0STOY5S
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
19/03/2015
Locations:
North America
,
Texas
,
United States of America
Credit line:
© Les Stone / Greenpeace
Size:
5760px × 3840px 11MB
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
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Shale Fracking in Texas
The Eagle Ford shale play stretches for about 300 miles across south Texas, one of the most prolific oil patches in the United States. Increasing oil production in the Eagle Ford Shale region, the Bakken formation in North Dakota and gas production in the Marcellus and Utica Shale Formations of Pennsylvania and Ohio made the United States the world's largest hydrocarbon producer for three years including 2014 Hydraulic Fracturing techniques to recover oil and natural gas from the shale, consume an enormous amount of water, as much as three million gallons per well. Resulting tracking fluids polluted with brine, chemicals and minerals, are stored in ponds or injected into underground wells impacting people and livestock.
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