Sentences with phrase «toxic fracking fluid»

But we do know that offshore fracking increases California's risk of a devastating oil spill or release of toxic fracking fluid.»

As the toxic fracking fluids migrate into the local water table, it will add some extra pizazz -LRB-!)

Not exact matches

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says Tuesday that Cabot has agreed to publicly disclose its policy and procedures for eliminating or minimizing the use of toxic substances in fracking fluids.

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.

But they also found that produced water contained potentially toxic chlorocarbons and organobromides, probably formed from interactions between high levels of bacteria in the water and salts or chemical treatments used in fracking fluids.

Fracking opened up vast swaths of once - quiet forest and farmland to the constant grinding of truck traffic heading to drilling rigs that operate all day and night, poisoning the air with diesel fumes and sometimes spilling toxic drilling fluids onto fields and into streams.

In March of 2013, the Commissioners approved a chemical disclosure bill in committee which would have required fracking companies to disclose to the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) the chemical ingredients in fracking fluid, many of which are extremely toxic.

So you could say Food & Water Watch is technically correct when it tries to scare people by saying fracking fluids contain «toxic chemicals.»

During the fracking process, millions of gallons of fracking fluid — a mixture of water, sand and toxic chemicals — are injected into the ground to break up the shale and release natural gas.

In addition, fracking flowback fluids, also filled with toxic chemicals, can rise to the surface and create stagnant, poisonous ponds that pollute the environment and create a hazard for humans, wild animals and livestock.