Category: Fracking

Our neighbors would like to benefit from a short-term fracking boom , but can’t get straight answers to fracking safety questions.

  • Fracking Accidents Across the United States

    View a North American map showing fracking accidents.

    “The country is in the midst of an unprecedented oil and gas drilling rush—brought on by a controversial technology called hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Along with this fracking-enabled oil and gas rush have come troubling reports of poisoned drinking water, polluted air, mysterious animal deaths, industrial disasters and explosions. We call them “Fraccidents”. See a sampling of some of the high profile incidents related to the country’s oil and gas drilling rush.

    http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states

     

  • Radioactive Fracking waste winds up in landfills, or worse

    Oilfields are spinning off thousands of tons of low-level radioactive trash as the U.S. drilling boom leads to a surge in illegal dumping. The waste is a byproduct of drilling, as it unlocks naturally occurring radium from shale rock formations, during fracking. This  waste is often buried at the extraction site, dumped illegally, or sent to local landfills.  The extraction process displaces radium-tinged subterranean water that comes up through the wells, where it can taint soil and surface equipment. Radiation levels can build up in sludge at the bottom of tanks, pipeline scale, and other material that comes in extended contact with wastewater.