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orthoclad

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9. What a sweet deal

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Aug 4, 2023, 10:25 PM

Aug 2023

Last edited Fri Aug 4, 2023, 11:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Inject tons and tons of secret chemicals into the ground (lotta PFAS in the mix) in order to squeeze out the last of the oil and gas, then use the gas to make plastic, then use the plastic to make more secret chemicals.

Whew.

edit: there's a post about the secret fracking chemicals here:
https://democraticunderground.com/1127165880#post1
Frackers Can Use Dangerous Chemicals Without Disclosure Due to "Halliburton Loophole"

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EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed O [View all] Eugene Aug 2023 OP

WHAT chemicals, specifically, you ask ? Keep asking. eppur_se_muova Aug 2023 #1

Known as a group as New Chemical Substances, NCSs, Wicked Blue Aug 2023 #3

I just read the highly redacted EPA report as well as the article. It's frightening. Wicked Blue Aug 2023 #2

Lotta moles from 4 years of packing orthoclad Aug 2023 #8

Offered with no context or evidence of a connection and little comment: yonder Aug 2023 #4

One of my mentors quit the fossil fuel industry for academia... hunter Aug 2023 #5

Long a lucrative Mob operation ... eppur_se_muova Aug 2023 #7

I doubt it was like that, no dioxins, Polychlorinated_biphenyl, or the like... hunter Aug 2023 #10

Not saying in your case. This was done through small distributors. eppur_se_muova Aug 2023 #11

That, and dumping them in every remote lake, pond, swamp and stream in NJ Wicked Blue Aug 2023 #12

Um, gasoline has always contained benzene, a known carcinogen. NNadir Aug 2023 #6

What a sweet deal orthoclad Aug 2023 #9