{"id":469,"date":"2018-08-18T12:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T16:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/?p=469"},"modified":"2018-08-18T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T17:22:30","slug":"natural-gas-competes-for-scarce-water-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/natural-gas-competes-for-scarce-water-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas competes for scarce water resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most colleges and many businesses and institutions, Vassar has been reporting reduced greenhouse gas emissions following our transition from heating oil to natural gas. Our Central Hudson electric grid also calculates reduced GHG emissions with its transition to gas power production.\u00a0Starting last December, Cornell University finally started leading the way in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu\/initiatives\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-inventory\">recalculating emissions with accounting for fugitive gas<\/a>. (Cornell&#8217;s whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu\/initiatives\/climate-action-plan\">climate action plan<\/a> is worth examining.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, reports are appearing on increasing water consumption by fracking operations (summarized <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/fracking-uses-a-lot-more-water-than-it-did-5-years-ago-1828364053\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/fracking-is-destroying-americas-water-supply-new-study-9cb163923d24\/\">here)<\/a>. Especially critical: untreatable contaminated water is injected into deep wells, effectively removing it from circulation and future use (and causing <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquakes.ok.gov\/what-we-know\/earthquake-map\/\">earthquakes<\/a> in fracking regions). A new study from Duke University projects <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/8\/eaar5982\">dramatic increases in water consumption<\/a>\u00a0in water-stressed regions in the coming decade. New York State has banned fracking, now isn&#8217;t it time we reduced our consumption of fracked gas from other states?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_471\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2018\/08\/ch12_OK_earthquakes-e1534610180726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-471\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-471\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2018\/08\/ch12_OK_earthquakes-e1534610180726-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"map of earthquakes and injection wells\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2018\/08\/ch12_OK_earthquakes-e1534610180726-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2018\/08\/ch12_OK_earthquakes-e1534610180726-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2018\/08\/ch12_OK_earthquakes-e1534610180726-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2018\/08\/ch12_OK_earthquakes-e1534610180726.jpg 1338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">Injection wells (blue) and earthquakes (orange) in water-stressed central Oklahoma; source <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquakes.ok.gov\/what-we-know\/earthquake-map\/\">OK Geological Survey<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most colleges and many businesses and institutions, Vassar has been reporting reduced greenhouse gas emissions following our transition from heating oil to natural gas. Our Central Hudson electric grid also calculates reduced GHG emissions with its transition to gas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/natural-gas-competes-for-scarce-water-resources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83205,2034,71667,279],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate","tag-energy","tag-gas","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}