Decisions regarding produced water discharge should not be driven by urgency, said Jennifer Walker, senior director of the Texas Coast and Water Program at the National Wildlife Federation. She said questions remain about how reliable the treatment methods are, whether there is enough energy to sustain them and the costs.
“We need to take our time and be really, really careful about this and build a lot of trust around it if this is the path that we’re going to go down,” she said.
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