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Fracking May Be Polluting River With Radioactive Waste

2013-10-03 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Fracking may be contaminating a Pennsylvania river with radioactive waste, a Duke University study to be published this week shows. Scientists found elevated levels of radioactivity in river water at a site where treated fracking wastewater from oil and gas production sites in western Pennsylvanias Marcellus shale is released into a creek. The natural gas-rich Marcellus shale is seeing a drilling boom, part of a nationwide rush to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques to extract...

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