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About 78 percent of the acreage leased was in New Mexico on six parcels, drawing about $22.4 million. $22M in New Mexico lands sold to oil and gas industry amid debate on drilling impacts Skip to ...
Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.
Environmental impact of fracking in the United States has been an issue of public concern, and includes the contamination of ground and surface water, methane emissions, [1] air pollution, migration of gases and fracking chemicals and radionuclides to the surface, the potential mishandling of solid waste, drill cuttings, increased seismicity and associated effects on human and ecosystem health.
The case was filed May 10, 2023 in Santa Fe District Court but could have impacts reaching hundreds of miles away in the Permian Basin oilfields of southeast New Mexico and the natural gas wells ...
New Mexico environmental officials have proposed a new regulatory framework for reusing wastewater with a focus on the used, salty byproducts of oil and natural gas drilling in a major U.S ...
Here’s the latest on New Mexico’s work to reuse oil and gas wastewater. More: Heinrich, Lujan join call for tighter oil and gas rules on New Mexico public land State law called for rules to ...
The company denied the allegations, and said the presence of methane was a result of naturally occurring migration, and had shown up in nearby water wells long before it drilled its gas wells. The EPA said that natural gas drilling by the company has contributed to the contamination of at least 2 residential drinking water wells in the county ...
While Texas regulators are blocking wells that dispose of oil and gas wastewater, New Mexico says ... is brought to the surface during drilling for crude oil and natural gas, sometimes up to 10 ...