Truck Delivering Waste From Fracking Operation Quarantined at Hazardous Waste Landfill As Too Danger

[eridani]

http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/What-the-Frack--by-Dennis-Kaiser-130502-648.html

On April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, PA, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous. The truck was carrying highly radioactive radium-226 in concentrations 86 times higher than allowed per EPA limits. Radium is a routine by-product of fracking — the fossil fuel extraction method behind the ongoing “natural gas boom.” Radium, it should be noted, is a routine by-product of fracking — the fossil fuel extraction method behind the ongoing “natural gas boom.” “Radium is a well known contaminant in fracking operations,” writes Jeff McMahon at Forbes. John Poister, a spokesperson for Pennsylvania’s Dept of Environmental Protection, said “the material in question is radium 226, which is what we expect from shale drill cuttings.” Radium-226 is linked to various forms of cancer

[femmocrat]

1. The mentioned landfill is a couple of miles from my house.

It's actually a lagoon, not like a solid waste landfill. The truck with the radioactive waste was sent back to the drill site, but I don't know what happened to it after that.

Local people used to be organized to fight and protest this site, but I guess everyone has given up (or died or moved away). It's back a rural road.... I have only been back there once a long time ago and you really couldn't see much from the road. With Corbett offering the drillers unrestricted access to rape and pillage our state, I guess there isn't much hope for closing it down.

[blue neen]

2. Holy crap!

Where is it now?

[blue neen]

3. Why isn't any of the Pittsburgh media covering this story?

Things that make you go hmmmm.

[femmocrat]

5. It was in the Tribune-Review. Don't know about the P-G (I couldn't find it.)

Shale truck sets off alarm in South Huntingdon

By Paul Peirce
Tribune-Review

Published: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 12:01 a.m.

A truck loaded with Marcellus shale drill cuttings that triggered a radiation alarm at a hazardous waste landfill in South Huntingdon was ordered back to a Greene County drilling site last weekend.

Township Supervisor Mel Cornell said the MAX Environmental Technologies truck was quarantined Friday after it set off a radiation alarm at MAX's landfill near Yukon, a 159-acre site that accepts residual waste and hazardous waste.

DEP spokesman John Poister confirmed the drill cutting materials from Rice Energy's Thunder II pad in Greene County had a radiation level of 96 microrem.

The landfill must reject any waste with a radiation level that reaches 10 microrem or higher.

Read more: http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/3888698-74/radiation-max-poister?printerfriendly=true#ixzz2SEk32nYP
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[blue neen]

6. Thanks!

Shame on the Post Gazette (if they didn't cover the story).

IMHO, this type of story should have been all over the television news.

[limpyhobbler]

4. du rec nt