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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrack-cident Map
Interactive map with links to reports of each fracking accident.
http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states
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Frack-cident Map (Original Post)
Scuba
Jun 2013
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Bucky
(54,094 posts)1. That's fracked up.
I didn't realize there'd been so many incidents (I was expecting only a fracktion of that number).
Cirque du So-What
(26,026 posts)2. One that doesn't appear on the map
Dumping of Toxic Fracking Wastewater Reaffirms Natural Gas Industry Free-for-All in Ohio
February 6, 2013
A week after the dumping of at least 20,000 gallons of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking waste into a storm drain that empties into a tributary of the Mahoning River in Youngstown, Ohio, by Hard Rock Excavating, state regulators have yet to disclose information about the quantity of waste and the chemicals involved. Environmental advocates are urging the state to act quickly to prosecute the perpetrator and look beyond the one incident to take more aggressive steps to protect the states public health and environment from future threats.
The degree of chutzpah exhibited by Hard Rock in this instance is astoundingbut its almost what you would expect in a state where we have one enforcement staffer for every 2,000 oil and gas wells, said Julian Boggs, Environment Ohio state policy advocate, noting that it was a company whistleblower, not state regulators, who uncovered the flagrant violation.
We have a legislature that seems more interested in greasing the wheels for fracking companies than protecting public health and the environmentthat only enables reckless behavior.
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Some of the lenient regulation for fracking waste can be attributed to its exemption from the nations hazardous waste lawthe Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Environment Ohio and others believe that as a matter of course, Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should move quickly to restore this loophole.
February 6, 2013
A week after the dumping of at least 20,000 gallons of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking waste into a storm drain that empties into a tributary of the Mahoning River in Youngstown, Ohio, by Hard Rock Excavating, state regulators have yet to disclose information about the quantity of waste and the chemicals involved. Environmental advocates are urging the state to act quickly to prosecute the perpetrator and look beyond the one incident to take more aggressive steps to protect the states public health and environment from future threats.
The degree of chutzpah exhibited by Hard Rock in this instance is astoundingbut its almost what you would expect in a state where we have one enforcement staffer for every 2,000 oil and gas wells, said Julian Boggs, Environment Ohio state policy advocate, noting that it was a company whistleblower, not state regulators, who uncovered the flagrant violation.
We have a legislature that seems more interested in greasing the wheels for fracking companies than protecting public health and the environmentthat only enables reckless behavior.
<snip>
Some of the lenient regulation for fracking waste can be attributed to its exemption from the nations hazardous waste lawthe Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Environment Ohio and others believe that as a matter of course, Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should move quickly to restore this loophole.
http://ecowatch.com/2013/dumping-fracking-wastewater/
This is infuriating - especially if no one goes to jail for it.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)3. Absolutely infuriating n/t
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)4. The people doing the fracking
should be made to drink fracked up water.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)5. K & R !!!