Tag: Fracking Wastewater
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Analysis Finds Offshore Fracking Industry Pumping Toxic Wastewater Into Coastal Waters
Citing the use of hazardous hydraulic fracturing chemicals and the release of oil industry wastewater off California’s coast, the Center for Biological Diversity yesterday called on the Coastal Commission to halt fracking for oil and gas in state waters and press for tighter regulation of fracking in federal waters. [caption id="attachment_312278" align="alignnone" width="500"] Approximately half…
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Oil and Gas Regulations Fail to Protect Communities’ Water
A report was released today identifying and examining the dangers to water quality posed by oil and gas production in the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming. The report, Watered Down, shows how regulatory systems fail to protect residents and communities from the harmful effects of oil and gas development. The report’s findings are: Oil and…
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As Fracking Expands in California, Water Board Refuses to Regulate Toxic Waste Disposal
As fracking threatens to expand drilling in California, a coalition of environmental justice and community health groups sent a letter yesterday challenging the legality of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board’s plan to keep letting oil companies dump toxic drilling-mud waste throughout the valley with minimal safeguards. Citing state environmental laws, the letter urges…
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Coast Guard Proposes Policy to Transport Radioactive Fracking Wastewater by Barge
By Emily DeMarco The U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates the country’s waterways, will allow shale gas companies to ship fracking wastewater on the nation’s rivers and lakes under a proposed policy published Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_310892" align="alignnone" width="500"] Industry officials say barges are the safest, and cheapest, way to move fracking wastewater, but a spill would…
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Radioactive Water From Fracking Found in Pennsylvania Creek According to Duke Study
A Duke University study published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, found dangerously high levels of radiation in a creek near a drilling wastewater treatment facility …