The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for
deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).
He said that an amendment was already planned that would extend the ban to include wastewater from vertically drilled oil and gas wells (which is being used elsewhere in the state for
deicing roads), as well as those using horizontal fracking techniques.
The use of
deicing road salts has increased from.28 million metric tons per year in the 1940s to over 16 million metric tons per year today.
Not exact matches
Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway
deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance,
road salt).
And he says he supports legislation to prevent the fracking waste water to be spread on
roads for dust control or as
deicing salt.
Last year, the legislature unanimously banned hydrofracking on county - owned property, and on April 12, County Executive Michael Hein signed an executive order prohibiting the use of brine for
road deicing on all county
roads.
The study is the first to demonstrate that the animals can rapidly evolve higher tolerance to
road salt, and indicates that freshwater ecosystems may possess some resilience in the face of a 50-fold increase in
road deicing salt applications since the 1940s.
They make most of their money producing and selling
road deicing salt for use in cold snowy climates.