Sentences with phrase «fracking waste»

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.

Huntington Democrat William Spencer drafted the bill banning fracking waste water from Suffolk

In one instance, he showed Mr. Avella a draft agreement under which Adam Skelos would have received $ 1 per barrel of fracking waste water treated by a company, AbTech Industries, that paid him as a consultant.

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.

And while chloride is contained in the road salt commonly used across the country, it is far more concentrated in fracking waste.

The complaint says Skelos also pressed to get hydraulic fracturing made legal in New York, which the environmental company was interested in, to treat fracking waste water.

«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.

«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.

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).

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.

There have been reports of small earthquakes near some injection sites for fracking waste in Texas, a state not known for seismic activity.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

New York State Senator Terry Gipson told WAMC he hopes the state will ban the use of fracking waste as a de-icer altogether:

A new report examines the possibility and practice of potentially radioactive out - of - state fracking waste getting dumped in New York despite Governor Cuomo's ongoing implementation of a ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing.

«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..

The Pittsburgh law firm representing a company that wants to build a water treatment plant in Coudersport, PA to treat natural gas fracking waste has told the Seneca Nation and President Todd Gates to keep quiet about the plant, saying he is making «false, destructive and defamatory statements.»

Senator Grisanti also wants to classify fracking waste water as hazardous, and ban public water treatment plants from accepting the waste water.

The problem is we've got a governor who's allowing fracking waste into the state, he's building out the infrastructure for natural gas.

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

In West Virginia and Pennsylvania, radioactive fracking waste is being processed at facilities like Antero Clearwater in Doddridge County, West Virginia, which claims it can produce water clean enough to be discharged back into nearby local waterways.

«Cuomo has permitted fracking waste to come in to New York state from Pennsylvania,» Hawkins explained.

County Landfill director Pantelis Panteli has said 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).

County legislators viewed presentations on the risks of fracking waste products and heard from industry representatives during debate over the bill.

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).

Fracking waste from extraction activities in the Marcellus Shale can also contain naturally - occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) such as radium - 226 and radium - 228.

Though public awareness of the hazards of fracking waste has grown over the past decade, oil and gas wastewater that has nothing to do with fracking can be heavily polluted as well.

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.

Fracking waste (currently not disposed of in Connecticut), has another level of health - damaging properties.

During a hearing on water quality, Basil Seggos, the New York State commissioner for environmental conservation, said «no fracking waste is being dumped in New York State.»

And he says he supports legislation to prevent the fracking waste water to be spread on roads for dust control or as deicing salt.

And while they touched on Hudson River water quality, road salt runoff in waterways and fracking waste, they largely centered on the state's response to Hoosick Falls, the Rensselaer County village where water was found to be contaminated by an industrial chemical, perflurooctanoic acid, or PFOA.

I hope one of our dynamic local organizations will print NO FRACKING WASTE road signs.

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.

Ellery Town Supervisor Arden Johnson told WRFA Tuesday that they've specifically looked into the fracking concern and to the best of the town's knowledge, no fracking waste is currently coming in.

«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.

The bill would ban fracking on county land, bar spraying fracking waste on county roads, and ban transportation of fracking waste to county - owned sewage treatment plants.

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.

The government also plans to ban any fracking waste water from being imported to the province.