Tag: Fracking Wastewater
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Rockland County Bans Radioactive Fracking Waste
Radioactive, toxic waste from gas drilling activities can potentially cause irreversible damage to water, air, land, soil and food supplies. Although this waste is hazardous and in fact exceeds the legal criteria for hazardous waste classification, it is categorized as “industrial waste” under federal and state laws as a result of special exemptions given to…
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Concerns Over Radioactive Fracking Waste Continues to Mount
One of the reasons these questions are so urgent is that this wastewater is often radioactive. When it was revealed in February 2011 that Pennsylvania was not only sending millions of gallons of this waste, sometimes with radium levels 3,000 times the safe level—through sewage treatment plants incapable of correcting radioactivity—which then discharged into rivers,…
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Filmmaker Josh Fox Joins L.A. Protest Demanding California Fracking Ban
“I look forward to meeting, educating and being inspired by Californians as I travel across the state with Gasland Part II over the coming weeks. If any state can stand up to the influence that the oil and gas industry wields over our elected officials and government agencies and demand a cleaner, renewable energy future,…
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PA Residents to IL Governor: Ban Fracking
As the Illinois General Assembly votes this week on the state’s increasingly suspect fracking bill, residents affected by similar operations in Pennsylvania and frac-sand mining in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota took the extraordinary step today of rele…
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PA Residents to IL Governor: Ban Fracking
As the Illinois General Assembly votes this week on the state’s increasingly suspect fracking bill, residents affected by similar operations in Pennsylvania and frac-sand mining in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota took the extraordinary step today of rele…