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Dave Dillon, the COGCC's top engineering manager, says nearly every one of Colorado's 35,600 wells are "fracked" and that a minimum of 100,000 gallons are used per well, resulting in millions of gallons pumped into the ground each year.

A Toxic Spew? 2008

Biologist Jessica Ernst says that after gas wells were "fracked" near her Alberta home, gas came out of her tap water -- so much so that she could light it on fire.

TreeHugger 2010

Biologist Jessica Ernst says that after gas wells were "fracked" near her Alberta home, gas came out of her tap water -- so much so that she could light it on fire.

TreeHugger 2010

Energy companies use about 3 million gallons (11 million liters) of water for each well that is hydraulically fractured, or "fracked", a process that pumps water mixed with sand and chemicals at high pressure to break open gas-bearing fissures in the shale about a mile underground.

Scientific American 2010

Biologist Jessica Ernst says that after gas wells were "fracked" near her Alberta home, gas came out of her tap water -- so much so that she could light it on fire.

TreeHugger 2010

We didn't talk about how Republicans had fracked us over

TLDR (Too Long Didn't Read) Jason Lee Miller 2011

Thirty thousand gas wells are slated to be fracked immediately.

Alison Rose Levy: Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Maddow on the Frack Threat to Our Water Alison Rose Levy 2010

Thirty thousand gas wells are slated to be fracked immediately.

Alison Rose Levy: Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Maddow on the Frack Threat to Our Water Alison Rose Levy 2010

By comparison, in Texas and Pennsylvania most of the rocks being fracked are several thousand feet deeper than water wells.

EPA Ties Fracking, Pollution Deborah Solomon 2011

North Dakota, another big source of oil from fracked wells, is concerned about the industry depleting aquifers and has threatened to sue the federal government to free up water held by an Army Corps of Engineers dam.

Oil's Growing Thirst for Water Russell Gold 2011