Sentences with phrase «fracking waste water»

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

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.»

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.

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.

In an effort to ensure that AbTech filters would be used in the fracking process, the Capitol Group lobbyists reached out to Sens. Tom O'Mara, Tom Libous, and Michael Nozzolio, all of whom had areas in their districts that were susceptible to fracking to see how they felt about trucks transporting waste water in and out of their districts.

«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.

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.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

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.

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.

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.

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).

It's from instances where waste fluids — for example, the water used in fracking — are injected deep into the earth.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil waste injection sites and a review of over 100 others in the Central Valley for fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids into drinking water aquifers.

Environmentalists have long been concerned about the risks fracking poses to drinking water via the vast amount of waste that it produces, and the potential for methane and other chemical migration into aquifers.

One of the major issues facing the southwestern US has been the fracking industry wasting huge amounts of water, which has rapidly drained local aquifers in Texas and New Mexico over the past two years.

The same guy that recently defended fracking in central Texas by pointing out how much water is wasted on residential lawn irrigation is today in Colorado outspending opponents of several local fracking initiatives by a 50 - 1 margin.

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 quantity.

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.

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.