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Glenn Thompson: “Those fractures, folks will sometimes be scared by that. They envision these huge caverns that are opened up under the…”

On the recordApril 7, 2011
Those fractures, folks will sometimes be scared by that. They envision these huge caverns that are opened up under the ground. And in fact, these fractures, or fissures I think they are best described, and you have probably seen them portrayed as spider webs. In fact, they are so small that they are held open by a grain of sand. That's the proppant that is put down into with water, and put in there to hold those fractures open. Just a grain of sand. So I think that, as we are talking about facts, so the people have a vision of what exactly we're talking about when this takes place.
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Glenn Thompson
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Apr 7, 2011

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