DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111799
论文题名: Fracking, farming, and water
作者: Hitaj C. ; Boslett A.J. ; Weber J.G.
刊名: Energy Policy
ISSN: 03014215
出版年: 2020
卷: 146 语种: 英语
中文关键词: agriculture
; Hydraulic fracturing
; Irrigation
; Oil and gas
; Shale
; Water policy
英文关键词: Irrigation
; Shale
; Water management
; Water supply
; North Dakota
; Oil and gas well
; Oklahoma
; Water policies
; Water use
; Water withdrawal
; Hydraulic fracturing
; gas production
; hydraulic fracturing
; irrigation
; oil production
; resource management
; shale
; water management
; water resource
; North Dakota
; Texas
; United States
英文摘要: Several studies note the large quantity of water used to hydraulically fracture oil and gas wells. We quantify this water use and its effects on water use for irrigating crops. For nine western states in 2017, water use in fracking represented 1.7 percent of water use in irrigation overall, but up to 55 percent in the Bakken shale of North Dakota, 28 percent in Oklahoma shale regions, and 12 percent in the Eagle Ford shale of Texas. However, in counties where the percentage of water use for fracking relative to irrigation is large, it is primarily because such counties have had minimal historical irrigation. We analyze the effect of state water policies governing the transfer of water from farming to fracking on water withdrawals for the two sectors. In North Dakota, which allowed farmers to forego irrigating and sell water to energy firms, each acre-foot of water used in fracking displaced about 1.1 acre feet from irrigation, thereby avoiding an increase in total withdrawals. Weaker evidence suggests an increase in irrigation in Oklahoma and Texas. Because of the lack of displacement in Texas and Oklahoma, concerns that fracking contributes to excess withdrawals in the present time may be warranted. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/167238
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作者单位: Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, Luxembourg; Rochester Data Science Consortium, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States; Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Recommended Citation:
Hitaj C.,Boslett A.J.,Weber J.G.. Fracking, farming, and water[J]. Energy Policy,2020-01-01,146