Last week new concerns came to light regarding the treatment and disposal of fracking wastewater. First a report by Environment America shows
that as fracking expands across the US, the sheer amount of wastewater
produced in 17 shale states – to the tune of 280 billion gallons in 2012
– is problematic.
Over two years the Duke research team, led by the well-recognized duo
of Professors Robert Jackson and Avner Vengosh, monitored Blacklick
Creek and found that radium-226 – a naturally occurring radioactive material found in rock – appeared in concentrations unsafe for human exposure.
Much of the radium was removed from the wastewater by the Josephine
Brine Treatment Facility, yet their operations were not able to
completely eliminate the element, resulting in discharges " roughly 200 times higher than background levels."
http://admin.alternet.org/fracking/frackings-radioactive-impact-water?akid=11064.294211.EVKLim&rd=1&src=newsletter913088&t=21
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