Where the petroleum industry and any other for that matter; (Simply examine the Superfund Records) can 'get away' with murder, they will and have no conscience in doing to.
...With hydrofracking, (click title to entry - thank you) a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene and radioactive elements like radium, all of which can occur naturally thousands of feet underground. Other carcinogenic materials can be added to the wastewater by the chemicals used in the hydrofracking itself.
While the existence of the toxic wastes has been reported, thousands of internal documents obtained by The New York Times from the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators and drillers show that the dangers to the environment and health are greater than previously understood....
Why are industries getting away with poisoning water supplies, causing cancers and murdering Americans? Because there are geologists that 'have no clue' about human health if their own lives depended on it working for these MAD MEN INDUSTRIES.
...Honing in on the Northeastern boom, (click here) Pennsylvania State University is so deeply involved with the gas industry that it’s hard to know where one stops and the other begins. If there is a father of the rush into the Marcellus Shale, it is probably Penn State geologist Terry Engelder. His home page carries a 2008 UPI report valuing his scientific contribution to “U.S. energy resources by a trillion dollars, plus or minus billions.”...
Where are the FRESH water quality standards that PREVENT this tragedy? Whatever happened to the toxicology report regarding the 'fish and bird' die off from the Southern States?
...With hydrofracking, (click title to entry - thank you) a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene and radioactive elements like radium, all of which can occur naturally thousands of feet underground. Other carcinogenic materials can be added to the wastewater by the chemicals used in the hydrofracking itself.
While the existence of the toxic wastes has been reported, thousands of internal documents obtained by The New York Times from the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators and drillers show that the dangers to the environment and health are greater than previously understood....
Why are industries getting away with poisoning water supplies, causing cancers and murdering Americans? Because there are geologists that 'have no clue' about human health if their own lives depended on it working for these MAD MEN INDUSTRIES.
...Honing in on the Northeastern boom, (click here) Pennsylvania State University is so deeply involved with the gas industry that it’s hard to know where one stops and the other begins. If there is a father of the rush into the Marcellus Shale, it is probably Penn State geologist Terry Engelder. His home page carries a 2008 UPI report valuing his scientific contribution to “U.S. energy resources by a trillion dollars, plus or minus billions.”...
Where are the FRESH water quality standards that PREVENT this tragedy? Whatever happened to the toxicology report regarding the 'fish and bird' die off from the Southern States?
