Frac Trucks… some call them soup trucks, kettle trucks or frack trucks. Some of these tanker trailers are used to haul frac sand or cement for gas well casings. Whatever the name or use of these various trucks, they usually catch your attention when they are parked roadside or travelling down the highway as oversize loads.
All kinds of weird plumbing, pipes and gauges not seen in everyday life. Some carry containers of frac fluids or other devices that you never saw anything quite like before. Equipment used for installing and fracking Marcellus Shale gas wells.
See: EnCana Buries Hydraulic Fracturing Pit Sludge in Unlined Pit May 14, 2009
See: US natural gas drilling boom linked to pollution and social strife
See: Marcellus-Shale.us: Our look at the Halliburton Loophole – 2005 Energy Act
See: Property Rights and Drilling
See: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): EPA Announces “Eyes on Drilling” Tipline.
See: Pennsylvania Gas Drillers Dumping Radioactive Waste in New York
See: Onondaga Nation of Iroquois Confederacy Takes On Fracking
See: Hazards posed by natural gas drilling are not limited to below ground
See: The Costs of Natural Gas, Including Flaming Water
