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Why fracking firms should pay for a $100-million water pipeline
04 Nov 2025 01:19 GMT
… , hydrocarbons, carcinogenic compounds and even radioactive elements, it cannot be discharged … organization Stand.earth.
Typically during fracking, roughly between one-third and … unprecedented and sustained increase in fracking operations for decades to come …
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Whistleblower sounds alarm about radioactive spill at US facility: 'This never should have happened'
03 Nov 2025 07:07 GMT
… of environmental crimes involving radioactive fracking wastewater, leading to an … operations concerning?
Fracking wastewater can be dangerously radioactive, far exceeding … Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials study found that …
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Along the banks of the Monongahela River, fracking waste in a landfill poses a pollution problem
08 Oct 2025 08:47 GMT
… picked up contaminants from fracking waste, including drill … radium, a naturally occurring radioactive element.
A 2011 analysis … as “hazardous” or “radioactive.”
Despite these characteristics, Congress … a study showing that radioactive materials accumulate in …
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Along the Banks of the Mon River, Fracking Waste in a Landfill Once Again Poses a Pollution Problem
07 Oct 2025 02:12 GMT
… picked up contaminants from fracking waste, including drill … radium, a naturally occurring radioactive element.
A 2011 analysis … as “hazardous” or “radioactive.”
Despite these characteristics, Congress … study showing that radioactive materials accumulate in …
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The Very Real Problem of Fracking Wastewater
29 Sep 2025 15:09 GMT
… , which must undergo extensive hydraulic fracturing (often called fracking) before the oil can … laden with fracking chemicals and salt, toxic minerals, and radioactivity (from the … came from shale wells requiring hydraulic fracturing. An estimated 0.8 and …
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Fracking wastewater now endangers both drinking water and the wells that regurgitate the wastewater
28 Sep 2025 21:17 GMT
… which must undergo extensive hydraulic fracturing (often called fracking) before the oil can … laden with fracking chemicals and salt, toxic minerals and radioactivity (from the … came from shale wells requiring hydraulic fracturing. An estimated 0.8 and …
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Fracking will invade, violate, pollute our land, says West Virginia Catholic sister
18 Sep 2025 12:19 GMT
… land. (Short for hydraulic fracturing, fracking is a process that … . Extractive industries like fracking and mining can be … harmless. Fracking drills into the ground and brings radioactive, toxic … show just living around fracking increases heart disease, birth …
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Traditional Owners, climate activists call on WA Labor to ban fracking
12 Sep 2025 11:05 GMT
… Owner Nuriah Jadai said: “Fracking for oil and gas threatens … waterways with toxic chemicals and radioactive wastewater and we don… faced a widespread campaign against fracking, which arose because of … and, in 2018, banned fracking in the Perth, Peel, …
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Why Britain’s fracking ban must be scrapped
09 Sep 2025 01:11 GMT
… since 2019.
Fracking refers to the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock … have raised concerns that fracking could lead to … supplies.
Contamination – especially the radioactive sort – certainly needs to … consensus prevails – that fracking is just too damned …
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Ohio fracking and poor waste management threaten our health, drinking water — and democracy
29 Aug 2025 14:54 GMT
… and gas fracking — along with storage management of its toxic, radioactive wastewater … brine — just keeps fracking along.
Public comments … aquifers become contaminated by toxic, radioactive oil and gas wastewater brine …