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madamesilverspurs

(15,782 posts)
1. It's beyond believing.
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 03:09 PM
Sep 2013

That last picture: it holds what the industry calls "produced water", which means it has been mixed with a number of chemicals, injected into the ground under pressure, and some of it blows back and is dumped into these pits. It's toxic. It CANNOT be used for agriculture or any other purpose. It is forever poisonous. Each well consumes many millions of gallons of water, so these pits, sometimes tanks, are necessary throughout fracking regions. Such installations are a necessary component of the process.

Given that, it was astounding last night when a local news story about our concerns included an interview with an industry spokeswoman who smirked and then said, with a straight face, "No fracking sites have been affected by the flooding."

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