Sentences with phrase «drilling waste»

The discharge of drilling waste into streams that supply drinking water for millions of people has come under national scrutiny.

Other areas have suffered damage from poor land - use practices, such as creating pits to store oil drilling waste.

A short distance away from the murky pond, an oil services company had begun pumping millions of gallons of drilling waste into an injection well.

The regulations, supporters say, are aimed at prohibiting the disposal of gas and oil drilling waste and the close what they say is a loophole in disposal requirements.

What I want to make clear today is that I also oppose the import and treatment of out - of - state frack drilling waste in New York State.

Even the pro-fracking Republican candidate Rob Astorino signed a law as Westchester County Executive in December 2012 to ban the import and treatment of frack drilling waste in his county.

«We are concerned that, despite New York State's ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, and the widespread evidence of the danger posed to public health by fracking, gas and oil drilling waste from fracking sites is ending up in our communities,» the lawmakers wrote in the letter to DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos.

Reuber said no agency, federal or state, has the money or staff to study the effects of drilling waste releases in North Dakota.

But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity.

I applaud the efforts of Residents for the Preservation of Lowman and Chemung and People for a Healthy Environment, Inc. to bring the issue of radioactive drilling wastes in the Chemung County landfill to the attention of the public, the DEC and the Chemung County legislature, which is currently considering a sizeable expansion of the Chemung County landfill to allow the landfill to take more drilling cuttings.

The gas did not match the shallower methane that the gas industry says is naturally occurring in water, a signal that the contamination was related to drilling and was less likely to have come from drilling waste spilled above ground.

Operators were allowed to test their wells less frequently for mechanical integrity and the area they had to check for abandoned wells was kept to a minimum — one reason drilling waste kept bubbling to the surface near Chico.

One, touched on repeatedly here, is the need for regulations to catch up with this maturing technology — both in cutting gas leaks and handling drilling wastes.

Their concern is based partly on a 2009 study, never made public, written by an E.P.A. consultant who concluded that some sewage treatment plants were incapable of removing certain drilling waste contaminants and were probably violating the law.»

It found evidence of contamination in both the shallow and deep wells, and attributed the shallow contamination to the 33 or so nearby surface pits used to store drilling wastes.

Daryl Peterson, a client of Braaten's who is not related to Darwin Peterson, said a series of drilling waste releases stretching back 15 years have rendered several acres unusable of the 2,000 or so he farms.

Within the past three years, similar fountains of oil and gas drilling waste have appeared in Oklahoma and Louisiana.

Newer technologies that are applied today in Alaska's expanding North Slope oil fields include directional drilling that allows for multiple well heads on smaller drill pads; the re-injection of drilling wastes into the ground, which replaces surface reserve pits; better delineation of oil reserves using 3 - dimensional seismic surveys, which has reduced the number of dry holes; and use of temporary ice pads and ice roads for conducting exploratory drilling and construction in the winter.

Corning, NY — Prior to his press conference in Corning to discuss his plans to ban frack drilling wastes in New York landfills, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor of New York, will tour the area around the Chemung County Landfill in Lowman.

Geologists say the reason is the way oil companies dispose of drilling waste.

Though the fluids were natural and not the byproduct of drilling or hydraulic fracturing, the finding further stokes the red - hot controversy over fracking in the Marcellus Shale, suggesting that drilling waste and chemicals could migrate in ways previously thought to be impossible.

The Erie County Legislature today banned high volume hydraulic fracturing on county land and imports of any drilling waste to its water treatment facilities.

Colorado fined EnCana for failing to contain its drilling waste properly.

In response to rising environmental concerns related to drilling waste, North Dakota's legislature passed a handful of new regulations this year, including a rule that bars storing wastewater in open pits.

In late 2008, samples of Chico's municipal drinking water were found to contain radium, a radioactive derivative of uranium and a common attribute of drilling waste.

Gresh said the agency has reports of a few trucks delivering what may or may not be drilling waste, and said, «We're tracking down those leads to ensure we have complete compliance all of the time.»

... Other documents and interviews show that many E.P.A. scientists are alarmed, warning that the drilling waste is a threat to drinking water in Pennsylvania.

Keokuk, IA — At approximately noon a water protector, Cameron Kennedy, 27, of Minneapolis locked onto the drilling waste vehicle Dakota Access Pipeline has been using to transport drilling byproduct to an unlined earthen pit near the Des Moines River on Johnson Street Road in Keokuk, Iowa.

A coalition of environmental organizations is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming federal regulators have for three decades failed to update rules for disposing of fracking and drilling wastes that may threaten public health and the environment.