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PamW

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3. Shuffle dirt around...
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 10:39 AM
Dec 2013

Of course, the radioactive waste here is natural radioactivity; fracking doesn't create any more radioactivity than was already in the ground.

So the radioactivity here, is natural radioactivity from Mother Nature, and the radioactivity is being dug up in one place, and buried in another.

So even though the word "radioactivity" is used for its effect; as if there is something "sinister" or "nuclear" going on; what West Virginia is basically allowing is for people to shuffle dirt around.

They are allowing people to dig up dirt one place and bury it in another place.

PamW

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