I makes sense to me that a fracking company might use salt water as a fracking solution. I understand that this solution is under a lot of pressure. Anything under pressure takes the less resistant course. Could it be that some of this material is coming back up under our timber and killing it? I have seen more dead timber since the drilling began than ever before. Hardwood and pine alike. It should not be too hard to take soil samples at the rooting depths and find out. Who do I talk to?
HOYT HOOPER
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Sesport, I do agree with you about calling Ricky Kilpatrick. I had long conversation with him yesterday before I posted my comments on site. At this point he would be the one I would talk to. He will direct you to other sources of info and help.
Permalink Reply by dbob on Drone -
The well site has been in place for several years - of note to all of us arm chair quarterbacks, the google earth image (Captured November of 2010) shows several trees which are brown in an area roughly 10 acres in size.
Other trees outside of that vicinity do not appear brown. There appear to be 2 pipeline or other ROW located generally north and south of the brown trees - the ROW generally run east-west.
Interesting.
Permalink Reply by P.G. on It says pine trees uses it's pitch or sap as a natural defence to protect itself from pine beetles so long as it's not a mass attack from the beetles...
I would imagine with the heat and drought weakened the trees and the trees couldn't produce enough sap to defend themselves...
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/trees/southern_pine_beetle.htm
Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on The drill site was probably the site of the pine beetle infestation and when the trees were cut they probably brushed up against the trees to the North and to the South. The pattern of of destruction seems to be moving to the North and South away from the drill site. It would be nice to see a current arial shot to compare.
In researching the decades-old Tuscaloosa Trend and the immense wealth it has generated for many, I find it deeply troubling that this resource-rich formation runs directly beneath one of the poorest communities in North Baton Rouge—near Southern University, Louisiana—yet neither the university ( that I am aware of) nor local residents appear to have received any compensation for the minerals extracted from their land.
This area has suffered immense environmental degradation…
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