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To: the navigator who wrote (12709)	2/28/2011 7:50:49 AM
From: robert b furman	3 Recommendations Respond to of 33421

First off most ground water is just a couple hundred feet down - not 2 miles. Companies like Tetra recover most of the heavy salts as part of the reclamation process.Their techniques were revolutionary in providing reclamation capabilities at the site.The cost recovery is in addition to environmental benefits and has accelerated their business. They remove the heavy salts but leave behind fracing ceramics - they prop open the frac cracks,after the drilling hole has been purged.See CRR Keep in mind the whole idea is to crack the earth's shale so oil can ooze through the cracks and be pumped out. It's pretty clever stuff. Bob