The Buzz on Waterless Fracking

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

February 2, 2012 | 3:15 PM

Every so often we get an energetic commenter who pastes the same message on more than one story. Nawar Alsaadi has posted this comment about alternative fracking liquids.

“The solution for fracking pollution is waterless fracking; Gasfrac has
done over a 1000 fracks with gelled propane; you don’t need any water;
you don’t produce any waste fluids (no need for injection wells); no
need to flare (no CO2 emissions); truck traffic is cut to a trickle from
900+ trips per well for water fracking to 30 with propane fracs; and on
top of that the process increases oil and gas production; it is a win
for the industry, a win for the community and a win for the environment.”

Alsaadi identifies himself as an investor, and a quick google search turns up his article on Gasfrac, which he says could be a game changer for the industry.
A Texas CBS affiliate recently published this piece on Gasfrac.