Tag: Injection Wells
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Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION — With hundreds of thousands of fracking wells and waste injection sites in the U.S., it’s likely that our food supply already contains water, plants and animals contaminated with fracking chemicals. While we hear a lot about …
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BREAKING: Ohioans Shut Down Fracking Wastewater Storage Facility
APPALACHIA RESIST! — Ohio residents and environmental groups including Earth First! have disrupted operations at Greenhunter Water’s hydraulic fracturing or fracking wastewater storage site along the Ohio River in Washington County, Ohio. Nate Ebert, a 33-year-old Athens County resident and member of Appalachia Resist!, ascended a 30 foot pole …
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Feds Charge Man in Fracking Wastewater Dumping Case
ECOWATCH — Federal prosecutors have charged a Northeast Ohio man with violating the federal Clean Water Act after dumping at least 20,000 gallons of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking wastewater into a storm drain that empties into …
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Is Fracking Wastewater Being Dumped into Coal Mines in Western Pennsylvania?
PUBLICSOURCE — She said that with the amount of natural gas drilling and coal mining going on in Greene County, it’s better to question things than to turn a blind eye …
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Ohio to Gov. Cuomo: We Are Not New York’s Dumping Ground
CENTER FOR HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE — In the letter, delivered today to Gov. Cuomo, citizens and communities across Ohio sent a clear message to the State of New York: Ohio does not want to serve as the dumping ground for …