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Glacier County hears technical briefing on injection well, tribe says permit in place
Summary
A consultant told commissioners the Hardwick injection well and Cut Bank field are engineered to protect shallow groundwater; tribal representatives said a permit to dispose of frac water has existed since 2012 and are pursuing renewed, limited disposal tied to renewables.
Wayne Smith, a consultant geologist, briefed the Glacier County Board of Commissioners on the geology and safeguards around a long-standing injection well serving the Cut Bank field, saying the well is engineered to protect shallow groundwater and that the deep Madison formation tapped by the well is briny, not potable.
Smith told the board he was appointed to the Montana Board of Oil and Gas in the past and has decades of industry experience. He described the Hardwick well’s construction: surface and production casings cemented back to the surface, API‑spec pipe, cement plugs and monitoring in place to isolate deep injections from shallow…
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