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A Slow-Rolling Disaster in Fracking Country
07 Dec 2023 19:00 GMT
… began treating, cleaning and recycling fracking wastewater, the Kentucky Department … such as arsenic, lead and strontium, this liquid can be … chemicals used in the fracking process that resurface when … did not visit the fracking waste treatment plant very …
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Plan To Clean Up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends In Monster Lawsuit
14 Oct 2023 21:34 GMT
… occasions injection wells have leaked fracking wastewater into natural gas wells … ; it found that facilities treating fracking wastewater were discharging radioactivity into … , sodium, magnesium, lithium, barium, and strontium would be emitted into the …
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In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit
19 Sep 2023 20:30 GMT
… occasions injection wells have leaked fracking wastewater into natural gas wells … ; it found that facilities treating fracking wastewater were discharging radioactivity into … , sodium, magnesium, lithium, barium, and strontium would be emitted into the …
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Pennsylvania Senator Wants Fracking Wastewater Classified as Hazardous
07 Sep 2023 11:00 GMT
… the initial chemical additives, or fracking fluids, plus chemicals and minerals … , which can include bromide, arsenic, strontium, mercury, barium, radioactive isotopes such … Department of Environmental Protection the fracking industry generated about 2.6 …
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New Pennsylvania Legislation Aims to Classify ‘Produced Water’ From Fracking as Hazardous Waste
06 Sep 2023 09:49 GMT
… initial chemical additives, or fracking fluids, plus chemicals … can include bromide, arsenic, strontium, mercury, barium, radioactive isotopes … across the state from fracking wells to underground “ … Protection (DEP) the fracking industry generated about 2 …
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Amid fracking boom, Pennsylvania faces toxic wastewater reckoning
30 Apr 2023 13:00 GMT
… rock around it.”
Today’s hydraulic fracturing—fracking—is a remarkable feat of … substances such as arsenic, barium, strontium, chloride, bromide, iodide, iron, … unconventional drillers.
In the early fracking years, drillers often stored wastewater …
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Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning
16 Apr 2023 09:17 GMT
… protesters in Trafford, Pennsylvania, about fracking waste.
Gillian Graber leads an … rock around it.”
Today’s hydraulic fracturing—fracking—is a remarkable feat of … substances such as arsenic, barium, strontium, chloride, bromide, iodide, iron, manganese …
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Protect This Place: Fracking Threatens the Allegheny Plateau and Its Biodiversity
27 Mar 2023 12:00 GMT
… Plateau a lucrative location for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
Already more than 13 … fracking sites in West Virginia, elevated levels of barium and strontium were … . Well pads, pipelines and other fracking infrastructure fragment forests, alter their …
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Study Analyzes Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Surface Water Quality
20 Aug 2021 22:00 GMT
… journal Science has revealed that hydraulic fracturing can contaminate groundwater and lower … concentration (bromide, chloride, barium, and strontium) in 408 watersheds spanning 11 … other chemical substances found in fracking fluids.
Giovanna Michelon, Study …
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Study suggests hydraulic fracturing can impact surface water quality
19 Aug 2021 18:25 GMT
… chloride and strontium, but not bromide, in watersheds with new hydraulic fracturing wells … data limited their analysis.
Hydraulic fracturing fluids contain chemical substances that … other chemical substances found in fracking fluids."
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