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Environment & Energy

Nihil

(13,508 posts)

4. Sad but true.

Reply to CincyDem (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 06:27 AM

Jul 2013

> Now, thanks to some rebranding and trade secret laws, they can pump it directly into the groundwater aquifers,
> no need to wait for any seepage...just pump it right in. And, more importantly, instead of having to pay someone
> to haul away and decontaminate their waste water, these plants have a new profit center called fracking fluids.

Win-win all the way to the bank for the Halliburtons of this world ...

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Out-of-state frackers are dumping billions of gallons of waste in Ohio "disposal wells" [View all] wtmusic Jul 2013 OP

This has become a huge loophole for dumping "formerly toxic wastewater". CincyDem Jul 2013 #1

Thanks for background wtmusic Jul 2013 #2

Sad but true. Nihil Jul 2013 #4

So we gave up on nuclear power for this??? hunter Jul 2013 #3