Gas Industry’s Solution to Toxic Wastewater: Spray It on Roads
March 9th, 2015Via: Newsweek:
The wastewater spread on roads comes from oil and gas wells. To drill, production companies send large volumes of water down the well shaft. The water rises back to the surface as a brine laden with chloride (a salt) as well as a number of other constituents like radium and barium, which are radioactive. The brine used on roads comes from conventional oil and gas production, not hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.”
But according to Duke University geochemist Avner Vengosh, the conventional drilling waste is nearly identical in many of its most toxic components to the highly controversial fracking waste. Vengosh says the levels of radioactive material found in conventional brine samples taken from New York are equal to levels he has seen in fracking brine, for example.
Same as it ever was. Put the toxic waste in our roads, in the skies, and in the water. At least they admit to this one.
Gas Industry Wastewater — check
Fluoride (waste from fertilizer industry) – check
Chemtrails (waste from coal industry) – check
Yep. Here in Pennsylvania near the Ohio border where fracking and flaring of gases is rampant, the roads and bridges in the same area are treated with a brine. It looks like black ice, but it is the brine from fracking. Today I was thinking I should put the car’s air in recirculate mode when driving in this area. Glad to not be slipping and sliding but this is utterly gross.
@Mangrove – radionuclides? Too tired to search(:
This company tried to disperse heavy metal waste mixed in with fertilizer under their probably genuinely held but wrong position that they were returning it to the earth, and that plants only uptake the minerals that they need. Instead it poisoned the fields and pastures it was used in. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970703&slug=2547772