Posted on October 12, 2022
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By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog | October 4, 2022 (NOTE: Images, documents and a video have have been added to the original blog) Shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,000 cubic feet [8,741 cubic yards] of radioactive TENORM… Continue Reading “Radioactive TENORM Waste from Fracking Operations in PA”
Category: Pennsylvania, Radioactive drilling wasteTags: drilling, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228
Posted on October 5, 2022
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Definition of ‘Rife’ – In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent. An October 1, 2022 BBC story by Jess Kelly, Owen Pinnell & Esme Stallard paints the dark reality facing children and their parents around the oilfields in Iraq. That reality is more poignantly displayed in a video that shows… Continue Reading “FLARING: Where ‘Cancer is Rife’”
Category: Leukemia near gas production, LNG, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil & Gas Contamination, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania air quality, Pennsylvania Dept of Health, Radioactive drilling waste, Washington County PATags: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, benzene, BTEX, Canon-McMillan high school, Canonsburg PA, Cross Creek County Park, Ewing Sarcoma, flares, flaring, health study, health threat, leukaemia, leukemia, radioactive shale, Radium 226
Posted on August 28, 2022
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This same landfill created major problems for a Westmoreland sewage plant. Is this radioactive waste ending up in your morning coffee Pittsburgh? Photo: Landfill leachate in a storm water drainage ditch during an inspection by the PA DEP on August 25, 2022 at the… Continue Reading “Westmoreland Landfill Leachate Back in the News”
Category: Landfill leachate, PennsylvaniaTags: drill cuttings, drilling, fracking, landfills, leachate, Marcellus Shale, Monongahela River, oil and gas, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, radium, Radium 226, residual waste, shale gas, Speers Run, Westmoreland County, Westmoreland Landfill
Posted on May 5, 2022
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In addition to a tornado warning —that had us eating supper in our basement at 6:00PM Tuesday evening— the third segment of this PBS Frontline documentary aired later that same evening. I recognized a couple powerful allies in the oil & gas air pollution… Continue Reading “‘The Power of Big Oil: Part 3 – Delay’”
Category: climate change, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, water pollutionTags: acrylonitrile, air pollution, brominated trihalomethanes, BTEX, chloroform, drilling, drilling waste, FLIR, fracking, global warming, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Monongahela River, Mt Pleasant Township, natural gas, NORM, NOx, oil and gas, Pennsylvania renewables, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, shale gas, tapwater, TENORM, trihalomethanes, VOC, water buffalo, water wells
Posted on May 2, 2022
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Robert Donnan ©2009 Enter the darkness, in the ground,Frack it, attack it, damn that sound!Gas to be drilled, big money found,Spewing secret chemicals all around. Steal the water, from the fish,Pump it, pipe it, spot the dish.Secret formula? Aw tish-tish,Resolve it later, don’t we wish! Will… Continue Reading “All Hail Marcellus Shale”
Category: Marcellus shaleTags: drilling, frac chemicals, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane gas, Ohio, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, proprietary frac fluids, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, West Virginia
Posted on May 1, 2022
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On April 28, the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Concerned Health Professionals of New York released their Eighth Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure. The Compendium is a collection of… Continue Reading “Risks and Harms of Fracking and Oil and Gas Infrastructure”
Category: Fracking Health Risks, PennsylvaniaTags: air pollution, drilling, ethane, frac, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, methane gas, natural gas, Ohio, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, Utica Shale, wastewater, water pollution, well pad, West Virginia
Posted on April 26, 2022
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A well-written and researched story by Justin Nobel was published yesterday on DeSmog: ‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’. Justin’s MUST READ story is about a facility in Martins Ferry, Ohio, that processes… Continue Reading “The ‘Un-Natural Gas’ Radioactive Waste Stream”
Category: Marcellus shale, PennsylvaniaTags: drilling, fracking, gas patch, gas wells, GOP, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, landfills, LNG, Ohio, oil and gas, Ra226, Ra228, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, shale gas, Utah, Utica Shale, West Virginia