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Energy-Water Nexus Data Dump 1: Fracking

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Energy-Water Nexus Data Dump 1: Fracking

How much water does it take to frac an oil well?

Jonathan P. Thompson
Sep 30, 2022
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A wild horse and fracking operation in the Greater Chaco Region of Northwest New Mexico, 2017. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

A few weeks ago a New Mexico source emailed to let me know that a handful of oil and gas wells were being “completed,” or hydraulically fractured, along the shores of Navajo Lake, which straddles the Colorado-New Mexico line. That, …

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