Sentences with phrase «radioactive fracking waste»
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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.
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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.
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 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.