This biggest frack (hydraulic fracturing) took place
in the isolated, far corner muskeg wilderness of northeastern B.C., about
80 kilometers (as the raven flies) north of the small town of Fort Nelson,
in the middle of a large identified geological formation (1.3 million
hectares) dubbed the Horn River Basin.
For three and a half months, over a 111 day period, from sometime in
January to April 27, 2010, Apache fracked continuously, day and night,
an apparently unprecedented total of 274 fracks, averaging 2 and a
half (2.5) fracks per day. The machines never stopped running, the din
of the giant diesel engines kept blasting their high-pitched frequencies,
far more annoying than the resonating vuvuselas at the 2010 World Cup
in South Africa that the world’s audience kept complaining about.
The fracks occurred on Apache’s remote groomed clearcut (called a
“pad”), identified as APA 70-K Pad. The pad is located at its Two Island Lake Operations area,
which it partner shares with energy giant Encana. Nearby to the 70-K Pad, are more similar multiwell
pad sites, with many more to come, along with a number of Apache and Encana newly
constructed facilities, including a new water treatment plant
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