期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 807, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150986
关键词
Hydraulic fracturing; Aquatic toxicology; Emerging contaminants; Flowback and produced water; Daphnia magna
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) [NSERC-DGECR-2020-00068]
- Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
The study found that FPW from wells on the same well pad may have differences in toxic levels, indicating that they cannot be simply considered the same for risk assessment practices.
Large stores of previously inaccessible hydrocarbons have become available due to the development of hydraulic fracturing technologies. During the hydraulic fracturing process, a mixture of water and proprietary additives is injected into geologic formations to release trapped hydrocarbons. After fracturing, injected water and fluid from the target formation return to the surface as flowback and produced water (FPW), a potentially toxic byproduct of hydraulic fracturing activities. FPW is a complex mixture that contains chemical additives present in the initial injection fluid as well as salts, metals, and a variety of organic compounds. As a result, FPW composition can be highly variable across wells from different geological formations, methods of fracturing and well development, and well age. The present study sought to determine if FPW sourced from four wells (O, P, U, V) located on the same well pad within the Montney Formation have similar levels of acute and chronic toxicity to the freshwater invertebrate, Daphnia magna. Minimal differences in the estimated 48 h LC50 concentrations were observed among the studied wells. Long-term, 21 d exposures to <= 2% FPW revealed differences in the level of lethality between wells, including complete mortality in daphnids exposed to 2% well O by day 9. No sublethal effects were observed as a result of exposure to FPW from wells P, U or V; however, a large impairment of reproductive traits and molting behaviour were detected after exposure to 0.75% well O FPW. These results indicate that FPW sourced from wells on the same well pad cannot be considered the same in terms of chemical composition or tox-icity, an important distinction to make for risk assessment practices. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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