Sentences with phrase «state fracking waste»
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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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.
«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..
«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.
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.
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.»
«Cuomo has permitted fracking waste to come in to New York state from Pennsylvania,» Hawkins explained.
«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.
We've got all of the infrastructure for fracking up in New York State, even the waste from here is getting dumped up in New York State, permitted by our Governor, Governor Cuomo,» said Hawkins.
Hawkins says he would ban fracking in New York and prevent the import and treatment of out - of - state drilling waste.
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.
In addition, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation continues to permit fracking waste to come across the borders from Pennsylvania into our landfills.
What I want to make clear today is that I also oppose the import and treatment of out - of - state frack drilling waste in New York Sstate frack drilling waste in New York StateState.
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.
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.
An EPA review of 27 states found that none required regular air monitoring of fracking and other waste materials that could emit benzene and toluene
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).
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.
Even though the de facto moratorium on high - volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing in New York State continues, the disposal of waste from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations is occurring in New York now and deserves our attention.
«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.