SA should fear frack water demands, says (tree-hugging?) attorney

Published July 18, 2010 at 3:27 p.m.
First water permit filed for SA River water to mine in Karnes, Dewitt.

Greg Harman
gharman@sacurrent.com

Across more than a dozen South Texas counties, a band of mostly open country passing just south of San Antonio, millions of gallons upon millions of water are being shot thousands of feet underground to fracture the hard Eagle Ford Shale and drain out the natural gas and oil found there. And increasingly, supra-national Big Oil is entering the growing energy play and putting new drilling rigs in place. [Read ‘The Next Petro Boom.’] Next week, an Austin-based landowner’s attorney will meet with residents of the region to offer his best advice...


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