Sentences with phrase «fracking wastewater»

Organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Integrity Project and some six others, want updated rules covering disposal of fracking wastewater in underground injection wells, which have been linked to river contamination most recently in West Virginia, and earthquakes in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and California.

XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, will reluctantly shell out $ 20 million to properly treat and dispose of fracking wastewater in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

«We have a bill in committee right now that would ban the use of fracking wastewater as a de-icer in New York State, and we hope that my colleagues will see that this activity actually is occurring here in New York State,» Gipson said.

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

Scientists suspected that the Arkansas earthquakes were triggered by the injection of approximately 94.5 million gallons of fracking wastewater into to nearby wells, which then made its way into the basement layer during a nine - month period.

A new fracking wastewater disposal plan could see it dumped upsteam from Niagara Falls; many doubt the ability of water treament plants to remove the contamination.

Several NY communities are using contaminated fracking wastewater as part of their road and highway maintenance programs — with DEC approval.

Drinking water contaminated by fracking wastewater can affect a person's normal respiratory, sensory and neurological processes as well as other biological functions.

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.

The EPA's four - year study did indicate that there are «potential vulnerabilities» to water supplies that need to be addressed by ensuring fracking wastewater is properly disposed of and that wells are built to minimize leaks.

The researchers looked at several potential ways fracking wastewater could end up in the drinking supply, including transportation and leaks or spills.

More than seven years after Pennsylvania officials requested that the disposal of radium - laden fracking wastewater into surface waters be restricted, a new Duke University study finds that high levels of radioactivity persist in stream sediments at three disposal sites.

Investigations by The New York Times last winter revealed that sewage - treatment plants processing fracking wastewater are discharging radioactive fluid into public waterways, in some cases upstream of intake sites for drinking water.

This field of storage tanks (in yellow) holds fracking wastewater.

Kassotis and his coworkers tried to mix these chemicals in amounts that might roughly match levels in real fracking wastewater.

Mike G, DeSmogBlogWaking Times After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPA ordered a report within 60 days.

Opposition to a proposal to dump out - of - state fracking wastewater in Nebraska went viral over the weekend, after a community group posted a video of a man offering chemical - laden water to a Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

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.

In a report assessing Fracking wastewater management, the National Resources Defense Council writes:

The opinion piece the group published in The Sacramento Bee was a case in point («Fracking wastewater threatens -LSB-...]

ExxonMobil subsidiary, with arm twisted behind back, agrees to treat fracking wastewater.

Opponents raise concerns about increasing methane gas levels (a powerful greenhouse gas) and other contamination involving the spillover of fracking wastewater in the groundwater of shale - rich regions.

The same NSF study found that fracking wastewater is already starting to contaminate rivers and other major waterways.

But, at a joint legislative hearing on water contamination held in Albany September 7th, Cuomo's environmental commissioner, Basil Seggos, testifying under oath, denied that the state allows the use of any fracking wastewater from gas drilling for roads or any other purpose in New York.

Before the ban was in place, Cuomo himself had even references Ruffalo's advocacy when mocking his 2014 gubernatorial opponent Rob Astorino's stance on natural gas through the banning of fracking wastewater being being used to treat roads in Westchester County.

But at a joint legislative hearing on water contamination held in Albany on September 7, Cuomo's environmental commissioner, Basil Seggos, testifying under oath, denied that that the state allows the use of any fracking wastewater from gas drilling for roads or any other purpose in New York.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

Fracking wastewater is laden with chemicals used to drill and frack the well and may also contain radioactive compounds and heavy metals released from deep underground.

Compounding concerns, reports from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leaked earlier in the year indicated that fracking wastewater is too radioactive to be handled safely by water treatment plants.

In January, for example, a leaking pipeline spewed more than 11 million liters (2.9 million gallons) of fracking wastewater.

But he is developing ways to clean up fracking wastewater.

It also would rule out regulations based on studies of natural disasters or human - caused events — like spills of oil or fracking wastewater — since they could not be reproduced.

He maintains a significant financial stake in Halliburton, and also has over $ 10,000 invested in BioLargo, a company involved in disposal of fracking wastewater.

The report concludes that while there have been surface spills of fracking wastewater, there is no evidence of groundwater contamination from fluids injected thousands of feet below the surface.