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Shawn Bartholomae Says Oil Industry to Help Water Issues

Advancements in fracking technologies are making the process more efficient, more productive and cleaner, says Shawn Bartholomae, CEO of Prodigy Oil and Gas Company of Irving, Texas. Many had considered the oil industry, and fracking in particular, to be enemies of the environment at one time. Now after a few years of heavy growth and refinement within the business, the same industry once vilified as a danger to the population is being looked up to as perhaps being the savior of the environment.

It is becoming more apparent that the oil industry and fracking are highly capable of helping to solve one of the future’s most dangerous perils.

High revenues from the oil and gas industries being put back into state coffers for a “rainy day fund” as is happening in Texas. The state is wisely using these slush funds to develop a critical area, the water supply systems of the state. Some of the new lakes being developed represent the first new reservoirs being built in almost thirty years.

The demand for water for the fracking itself has put pressure on the industry to come up with new recycling techniques.

The oil and gas industry is investing billions of dollars into filtration and purification technologies. The water scarcity problem and the energy production fields are so inter-related that a healthy environment in one field promotes the health of the other industry. Water can be continuously recycled and purified. It takes energy.

The day could come when the technologies being developed and refined in the oil and gas and fracking industry will be the same technology that will provide an abundance of purified drinking water.

So while environmentalists are shouting down parts of the oil and gas industry (or all of it) and some enthusiasts from the East are calling for ‘an end to all fracking’. It may be the industry and fracking that is the greatest friend they have.

Future generations may look upon the development of these high tech systems for purifying the water as the salvation of the planet and taking steps to ensure adequate water supplies for the billions of new people that will be added in the near future generations.

Someone has to make the investments and take the necessary step to broaden the horizon of water development and purification. Right now it appears that the oil and gas industry is the sector that will step out most prominently and invest heavily into the future. The fracking industry might prove to be the best friend the environmentalists have. Riyad ch (talk) 18:58, 16 October 2013 (UTC)