Sentences with phrase «store drilling wastes»

It found evidence of contamination in both the shallow and deep wells, and attributed the shallow contamination to the 33 or so nearby surface pits used to store drilling wastes.

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But the contaminants can come from several sources: from the hydraulic fracturing process itself, from the waste water, from the pits where drilling chemicals are stored, or from transporting chemicals and wastewater.

In response to rising environmental concerns related to drilling waste, North Dakota's legislature passed a handful of new regulations this year, including a rule that bars storing wastewater in open pits.

Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation's drinking water.

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..