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Related: About this forumKansas Senate Gives Initial OK To Spreading Fracking Waste On Farm Fields
he Kansas Senate has tentatively approved a measure allowing oil and gas drilling companies to spread clay shavings produced by fracking operations over fields in Kansas.
The move Thursday comes as southern Kansas is experiencing a surge in horizontal drilling involving the hydraulic fracturing technique known as fracking, according to The Wichita Eagle. Senators will take a final vote on the bill later before sending it to a House committee.
The material companies could spread on Kansas fields involve clays, which often have high concentrations of chloride. It's viewed as a cheaper and more efficient way to get rid of the large quantity of waste created by fracking. The alternative is hauling it to landfills, and officials say the landfill in Harvey County may be the only one accepting such materials.
Under the proposal, companies couldn't spread any material that has chloride levels higher than 900 parts per million, or about two inches of material atop the soil. State officials would review the quality of irrigation water in the area to ensure chlorides pumped out to water crops don't push chloride levels to dangerous levels.
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http://6lawrence.com/news/politics/ks-senate-gives-tentative-ok-to-fracking-waste/
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)This gives "grow your own" a new meaning. Grow your own wheat. Grow your own barley. Grow everything on land that contains a minimal amount of pollutants.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)What's more, it's not just Kansas that will be turned into a waste site by this
proposal but every state that either uses water from the Equus Beds Aquifer
or is downstream on the Little Arkansas River.
But hey, as long as this method is "cheaper" than actually paying for the safe
disposal of such waste products ...
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)Zenlitened
(9,488 posts)Welcome to Kansas,
Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)It's a cinch science is held in low esteem in Kansas.
MMJjestic
(34 posts)Or better yet, One does not simply walk into Mordor (Kansas) One simply invites a gas driller and the land becomes Mordor(Kansas)
benld74
(9,904 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)'salt' their own fields, I have to wonder.
Has the entire state of Kansas gone dog barking mad?
You just don't dump waist chemicals on crop land.
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)MuseRider
(34,104 posts)I can tell you right now what is the matter with Kansas. Religion and teabaggers.
Why care about the land if you are not going to be here much longer, isn't Jesus coming soon?
This, and every single thing being done in my state is all grounded in somebodies idea of what Jesus would like and the Koch brothers who have their home base here.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)someone is making a mint on this, and you can bet not living anywhere close to this dirty deal!! Corrupt bastards!