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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Hydro-fracking for Natural Gas comes to Michigan



Michigan Chapter Update

Early April 2011

Hydro-fracking for natural gas: What Michiganders Need to Know

Courtesy of MARQUIL at Empirewire.comThe huge potential for natural gas reserves that are embedded in Collingwood and Utica shale led to a record-setting state lease sale in the northern Lower Peninsula last spring of 2010, with more sales taking place in late October 2010!

The technique for extracting this gas is called hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. The process involves the high-pressure injection of a mixture of water, chemicals, and sand into fissures in the shale, widening the fissures sufficiently to extract the gas. While this general technique has been used for many years in Michigan's shallower Antrim shale drilling, its use in the much deeper Collingwood/Utica deposits introduces new concerns.

Millions of gallons of water are required, with thousands of gallons of chemicals (most of them toxic and all of them secret), and sand.

Join us at upcoming meetings to learn more about this new natural gas extraction technique, and what you can do to assure Michigan adopts better regulations.

Events are scheduled April 7th with the Southeast Michigan Group and April 21st with Sierra Club's Jackson area activists (details here). Contact Michigan Chapter Clean Water Program Director, Rita Chapman, to find out more and get involved.

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