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Nihil

(13,508 posts)
2. What kind of a complete and utter cretin thinks that this could *possibly* be a good idea?
Thu May 2, 2013, 01:07 PM
May 2013

I mean, seriously?

> Natural gas drillers are eager to get rid of the waste fluid, which is a "consumptive water use,"
> meaning it cannot be recycled.

> drillers refuse to divulge the ingredients

> A truck carrying fracking waste was quarantined and then sent back to where it came from
> after its contents triggered a radiation alarm at a Pennsylvania hazardous-waste landfill.
> The truck’s load was nearly 10 times more radioactive than is permitted at the dump
(via http://www.democraticunderground.com/112741980)

Just how can ANYONE justify spreading this toxic shit across the public highway when the
frackers aren't even allowed to dispose of it in a hazardous-waste landfill?



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