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Drilling boom brings rising number of harmful waste spills
2015-09-08 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Carl Johnson and son Justin are third- and fourth-generation ranchers who for decades have battled oilfield companies that left a patchwork of barren earth where the men graze cattle in the high plains of New Mexico. Blunt and profane, they stroll across a 1 1/2-acre patch of sandy soil lifeless, save for a scattering of stunted weeds. Five years ago, a broken pipe soaked the land with as much as 420,000 gallons of oilfield wastewater a salty and potentially toxic drilling byproduct that can...
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Fracking boom UT West Texas lands linked spills, air pollution
2015-09-08 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
American-Statesman: The hydraulic fracturing boom on University of Texas System lands in West Texas has polluted soil, groundwater and air, according to a report to be released Tuesday by an environmental group and a think tank. At least 1.6 million gallons of oil, saltwater and other pollutants have spilled from wells and associated equipment on UT System-owned land since 2008, said the report, which drew from system and Texas Railroad Commission records. In addition, the report said, vast quantities of methane,...
Demand From Technology Firm Spills Into Secondary Office Markets
2015-09-04 09:00:00| National Real Estate Investor
Not content to have taken over every major gateway city, technology tenants are leeching into secondary office markets. read more
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Shell Oil accidentally spills hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic gas in Deer Park
2015-08-12 03:07:40| Waste Management - Topix.net
On Sunday morning, hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic gas were accidentally released from the Shell Oil facility in Deer Park. According to reports from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality , 326,166 pounds of butadiene escaped through an open valve on a spherical tank between 10:40 am and 11:35 am.
Ex-employee alleges unreported oil dumping, chemical spills at Boise...
2015-07-24 10:18:43| Waste Management - Topix.net
The city of St. Helens and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said this week they are looking into claims that toxic materials were improperly disposed of at the Boise White Paper mill three decades ago, after a former millworker said he had firsthand knowledge of a number of possible violations. The purported whistleblower, who also spoke to the Spotlight on condition of anonymity, said he was part of a work detail that dumped 'hundreds' of 55-gallon drums of oil laden with polychlorinated biphenyls in an area of the property, which was later paved over and had a chlorine generator building placed on top of it.
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