Sentences with phrase «fracking waste as»

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

The State Assembly, led by Democrats, passed a package of one house bills for Earth Day, including requiring private drinking wells to be tested before fracking occurs, and to classify fracking wastewater as hazardous waste.

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

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.

The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydro fracking as hazardous waste.

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.

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.

Since 2008, ProPublica has reported about hundreds of cases of water contamination in more than six states where drilling and fracking are taking place as well as the difficulties of handling the vast quantities of waste the drilling processes produce.

Regulators refer to such waste as salt water or brine, but it often includes less benign contaminants, including fracking chemicals, benzene and other substances known to cause cancer.

It would be a far better use of most scientists and PhDs time who comment on this forum and on others like Open Mind to just STOP wasting YOUR time arguing with idiotic «drunken» deniers, and spend their time much more effectively by scouring the internet for such «events» as «Gas Fracking reviews by Government» etc etc in all nations across the world and use your education and skills and knowledge and actually make a positive difference to AGW / CC action by sending them a FORMAL SUBMISSION or offering up YOUR OPINION and EXPERTISE to be considered in their deliberations.

I have no quarrel with those taking an absolutist «no fracking» stance, including the makers of «Gasland,» the searing documentary on fracking nominated for an Academy Award, as long as they come up with other energy options that can reduce dependence on oil or coal (and cutting energy waste, while vital, doesn't do the trick).

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.

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.

Did fracking fluids ever contain industrial waste mixtures which, if pumped into the ground for non-gas production purposes, would have been regulated as hazardous waste?

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.