His administration has also permitted
fracking waste from Pennsylvania to be disposed of in New York, something even pro-fracking Astorino signed a law to prohibit in his own Westchester County.
But he must know fracking harms our air, water and health, because as Westchester County executive, he signed a law to ban
fracking waste from being treated in his own county.
There are thousands of pages of fine detail to sort through, and we know much work remains, like banning other states»
fracking waste from being dumped inside our borders,» said Water & Natural Resources Associate Liz Moran.
Meanwhile, under Governor Cuomo's watch, the oil and gas industry has been allowed to import and treat of
fracking wastes from Pennsylvania in New York State.
Those section conclude that «significant gaps remain» in regulation despite updates in some states, and they describe exemptions for
fracking wastes from the Resource Recovery and Response Act's hazardous waste requirements, from the Clean Water Act's comprehensive permit program for discharges into surface waters, and from the Safe Drinking Water Act (which regulates groundwater pollution).
Not exact matches
«We applaud Governor Cuomo for his promise to protect New Yorkers
from the danger of tracking,» the letter states, «and urge you to fulfill that promise by ensuring protection
from potentially hazardous
fracking waste.»
Unless your definition of «
fracking» only includes the instant when holes are blown in the pipe, every state has had water and ground pollution
from spills, traffic accidents, poor casing jobs, attempts to process
frack waste through biological
waste treatment plants not designed for that, etc..
«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River
from an oil train disaster and to keep
fracking waste out of New York State.
Senator Grisanti also wants to classify
fracking waste water as hazardous, and ban public water treatment plants
from accepting the
waste water.
«Cuomo has permitted
fracking waste to come in to New York state
from Pennsylvania,» Hawkins explained.
«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River
from an oil train disaster and to keep
fracking waste out of New York state.
We've got all of the infrastructure for
fracking up in New York State, even the
waste from here is getting dumped up in New York State, permitted by our Governor, Governor Cuomo,» said Hawkins.
The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater
from hydro
fracking as hazardous
waste.
County Landfill director Pantelis Panteli also told WRFA Tuesday that the landfill has never accepted
fracking waste and New York has strict environmental regulations in place banning hazardous
waste from entering the landfill (although that is heavily refuted by the EANY report).
A report
from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Conservation — the state where
fracking waste would most likely come
from if coming into New York — also found that during 2011 - 2013,
fracking waste of any kind was sent to six New York landfills, none of which were in Chautauqua County.
In addition, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation continues to permit
fracking waste to come across the borders
from Pennsylvania into our landfills.
Long - time problems associated with HHF such as major spills including
from pipelines or what to do with radioactive and toxic
waste water
from a
fracked well have not been rectified.
Huntington Democrat William Spencer drafted the bill banning
fracking waste water
from Suffolk
Adam Skelos stood to make $ 1 per barrel of
waste from fracking, according to the document, on top of his already $ 10,000 monthly salary for being a consultant.
«Erie County residents have gotten what they expect and deserve: protection of their fundamental rights of health and safety
from the dangers of
fracking and
fracking waste.
County legislators viewed presentations on the risks of
fracking waste products and heard
from industry representatives during debate over the bill.
«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples
from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters
from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that
fracking fluids are not much different
from conventional oil and gas
wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
This peer - reviewed study by a pair of researchers at Rice University in Houston shows that while
fracking - produced water shouldn't be allowed near drinking water, it's less toxic than similar
waste from coal - bed methane mining.
It's
from instances where
waste fluids — for example, the water used in
fracking — are injected deep into the earth.
The problem is that treating oil and gas
waste from fracked wells remains particularly tricky because the industry is still allowed to keep secret information about which chemicals drillers use when injecting fluids to crack open shale formations to release oil and gas.
While public criticism has recently been focused on the possible contamination
from fracking waste products, Tuesday's action stems
from complaints that the gas itself had seeped into the drinking water.
From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quant
From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals
from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quant
from coal ash
waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by
fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quantity.
A single hydrofracking treatment can yield 15,000 gallons of chemical
waste from the
fracking fluids.
This included
fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials
from that kind of industrial
waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.
Injection of
waste water
from fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has been linked to increased seismicity in areas where the injection occurs.
Even though the de facto moratorium on high - volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing in New York State continues, the disposal of
waste from hydraulic fracturing (
fracking) operations is occurring in New York now and deserves our attention.
In 2011, the EPA made the determination that
fracking waste is too radioactive (
from exposure to underground cesium and uranium) to be processed in municipal
waste facilities.
For those of us on a more human time frame, the methane and other gases emitted
from decomposing organic matter work just as well as the stuff you have to
frack out of the ground... and, as you can see in the infographic below, create all sorts of opportunities to deal with
wastes more efficiently, and to even create a few jobs.