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Irrigating underground: Assembling, disassembling, and reassembling the hydraulic fracturing energy-water nexus

机译：地下灌溉：水力压裂能水关系的组装，拆卸和重新组装

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This paper explores how a novel and water-intensive method of energy production - high-volume hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a., "fracking" or "fracing") - has taken hold in a river basin that is over-appropriated, is managed via a water governance regime that did not anticipate hydraulic fracturing's idiosyncrasies, and where public concern about dedicating freshwater to hydrocarbon production is high. Via a grounded examination of hydraulic fracturing water use in Colorado's busiest oilfield and most crowded river basin, I argue that the practice has come to exist and persist despite these countervailing forces because it is an ephemeral energy-water assemblage. It is always in motion, is tough to monitor, and emerges only to disappear and reemerge again. This shape-shifting capacity distinguishes hydraulic fracturing from better-known energy-water couplings such as the hydroelectric dam and from historical surface irrigation practices in the American West. It also has consequences. While the uncritical energy-water literature suggests that these energy-water relations have been sufficiently characterized by volumetric gallons-per-well estimates, and the physical ephemerality of the hydraulic fracturing assemblage keeps its on-the-ground complexities elusive, an abridged and uncomplicated picture of hydraulic fracturing endures in the academic literature and public discourse. The partial understandings that result make this assemblage simpler to produce and reproduce. This study responds to calls for more nuanced analyses of energy-water relations. It also contributes to assemblage theory by examining the relationship between instability and stability in the lives of an assemblage, which underscores the importance of processes of disassembly and reassembly within assemblage-style analyses.
机译：本文探讨了一种新的，耗水量大的能源生产方法-大流量水力压裂（又称“压裂”或“压裂”）如何在过度使用的流域中扎根。通过水管理制度进行管理，该制度没有预料到水力压裂的特殊性，并且公众对于将淡水用于烃类生产的关注很高。通过对科罗拉多州最繁忙的油田和最拥挤的流域水力压裂用水的扎根检查，我认为尽管有这些反作用力，但这种做法已经存在并持续存在，因为它是一种短暂的能量-水组合。它始终处于运动状态，难以监视，并且出现后才消失并再次出现。这种变形能力使水力压裂与水力发电大坝等知名的能量-水耦合以及美国西部的历史性地面灌溉实践区别开来。它还有后果。尽管非关键性的能源-水文献表明，这些能源-水之间的关系已经通过每口井的加仑体积估算得到了充分的表征，但是水力压裂组合的物理短暂性使得其地面上的复杂性难以捉摸，简化且不复杂学术文献和公众话语中水力压裂的持久性图片。由此产生的部分理解使该组件更易于生产和复制。这项研究回应了对能量-水关系进行更细致的分析的呼吁。通过检查装配寿命中的不稳定性和稳定性之间的关系，它也为装配理论做出了贡献，这突显了装配风格分析中拆卸和重新装配过程的重要性。

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