May 21, 2013
damascus citizens for sustainability
clean water, air & land are basic human rights
The maps included here are from an XTO permit application of August 2012, and give a quick view of what goes/comes from where.
Looks like there will be quite a bit of traffic around and right next to the Cannonsville Reservoir, the westernmost NYC watershed reservoir. … Continue reading
Its contents remain mostly a mystery. But fracking wastewater has revealed one of its secrets: It can be highly radioactive. And yet no agency really regulates its handling, transport or disposal. A four-part series on radiation in fracking wastewater by Rachel Morgan of the Beaver County Times.
Part 1 … Continue reading
Injection wells used to dispose of the nation’s most toxic waste are showing increasing signs of stress as regulatory oversight falls short and scientific assumptions prove flawed.
ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten has launched a new and … Continue reading
The Brine referred to is from gas or oil wells and though the paper is from 1986 and of course does not deal at all with the materials that are introduced by slickwater hydraulic fracturing, it is an excellent … Continue reading
RWMA is a Vermont-based consulting firm established in 1989. Our expert team of scientists and engineers evaluate the impact of proposed and existent radioactive waste facilities to assist organizations that are faced with nuclear waste management issues.
Click here to view their Expertise and Services … Continue reading
These comments on the proposed DEC regulations on Marcellus Shale Development pertain primarily to health and safety issues. Since the previous GEIS1, DEC has examined the regulatory experience in other states and responded to the concerns of New York City and … Continue reading
EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Technical Workshop 3, Fate and Transport March 28-29, 2011, EPA Potomac Yards Conference Facility
Implications for Disposal of Oil and Gas Flowback Fluids from Brine Treatment Plants
See Images and Description Here… Continue reading
The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet … Continue reading
Washington, D.C.-In the wake of April’s calamitous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, pundits are pointing … Continue reading
Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy used to power their plants contained so much salty sediment that it was corroding their machinery. Nearby residents saw something odd, too. Dishwashers … Continue reading
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