read up on the chemicals used in fracking and what's in the "produced water" that will be "treated"
Some of the substances can be "treated" - most can't, including strontium and other radioactive elements.
Produced water is what comes up after the initial flowback from the frack. It continues to come up to the surface for the life of the well. Produced water is heavy in BRINE, 4-5 times more saltier than sea water. Additionally, the produced water picks up naturally occurring substances such as lead, arsenic, benzene, toluene, radium, strontium.
Your assumption that a water company has incentive to protect the resource is faulty. Water company will make more money providing water to the frackers than it will to the general public. Like any corporation - it's incentive is to make more money for it's shareholders. Providing water is just a vehicle for making money. Read my series - Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Player: http://fracktoids.blogspot.com/
Let's take a look at Aqua America:
the CEO of Aqua America is Nicholas DeBenedictis. He is also on the board of directors for the Exelon Corporation (oil-gas industry). Sitting next to him on the board of directors is former Gov. Tom Ridge, also former Homeland Security Secretary.
When Tom Ridge left Homeland Security position, he formed a corporation called Ridge Policy Group. Essentially a big lobbying firm. Ridge Policy Group was hired by Marcellus Shale Coalition (industry backed front-group) to promote Natural Gas legislation. Tom Ridge is also counted on the ALEC "alumni" roster.
Michael Krancer, PA-DEP Secretary, was Assistant General Counsel for Exelon Corporation.
Aqua America and Penn-Virginia Resources Partners (PVR) formed a joint subsidy - Aqua-PVR. This is the corporation which is buying up land along the rivers to build water withdrawal stations and pipelines to transport water to the frack fields in Pennsylvania. PVR has 51% controlling interest in Aqua-PVR, Aqua America has 49%
More recently, PVR is in the process of acquiring midstream pipelines/facilities from Chief Gathering. PVR's investors in this project is Riverstone Investments. If you check out Riverstone, you will find the Management and Board of Directors were formerly from Goldman-Sachs, Morgan-Stanely, Citibank, Bank of America etc.
Chief Gathering is a subsidiary of Chief Oil & Gas. CEO of Chief Oil & Gas is Trevor Rees-Jones. In 2008 he donated $1,000,000 to American Crossroads, this is Karl Rove's super-duper PAC organization. Chief Oil & Gas is a member of Marcellus Shale Coalition, and it's Press Relations person - Kristie Gittens is listed on the MSC executive board and is MSC's treasurer.
Chief Oil & Gas is a subsidiary of Devon Energy. Devon Energy completed a deal earlier this year with Sinopec. a chinese corporation.
Aqua America and Penn-Virgina Resource Partners are both members of the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC).
Prior to Corbett's official creation the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission, he had a transitional committee formed to address issues surrounding the Marcellus Shale and energy. Nicholas DeBenedictis had a seat on that committee.
In the original posted article. A Travis Windell is cited as MSC spokesperson. Windell's employer is FTI Consulting, a PR/Lobbying firm. Prior to being employed by FTI Consulting, Windell worked in the US House of Representatives as a press officer for Rep. JOHN BOEHNER, another ALEC member to boot.
FTI Consulting is also very much involved with the operations of ENERGY-IN-DEPTH (EID) - another gas industry front group. EID's website domain is registered under a company called Dittus Communications. Dittus was bought up by FD-Americas, a subsidiary of FTI-Consulting and later FD-AMERICA name was dropped and became FTI Strategic Solutions - a division of FTI Consulting.
now, tell me again that these corporations give a shit about clean water?
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