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Lagoons filled with toxic water coming to Ohios fracklands
2013-10-14 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Where frackers go, lagoons filled with toxic wastewater follow. Fracking wastewater impoundment lots as big as football fields already dot heavily fracked landscapes in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The lagoons are built to help the industry manage and reuse the vast volumes of wastewater that it produces. Ohio lawmakers looked admiringly to their neighboring Marcellus Shale states and decided to draw up their own rules for wastewater lagoons. From The Columbus Dispatch: We are putting in a...
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Toxic water splashes 6 in Japan nuke plant mishap
2013-10-09 09:48:05| Energy - Topix.net
The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant says six workers have been exposed to highly radioactive water that poured out of a treatment unit when they removed a wrong pipe.
Fracking produces annual toxic waste water enough to flood Washington DC
2013-10-07 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fracking in America generated 280 billion US gallons of toxic waste water last year - enough to flood all of Washington DC beneath a 22 feet deep toxic lagoon, a new report out on Thursday found. The report from campaign group Environment America said America's transformation into an energy superpower was exacting growing costs on the environment. "Our analysis shows that damage from fracking is widespread and occurs on a scale unimagined just a few years ago," the report, Fracking by the Numbers,...
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Toxic algal blooms and warming waters: The climate connection
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: A photograph displayed in Jacki and John Williford`s home commemorates a camping trip that would go down in family history. The most memorable event from that outing in 2011 involved the mussels John and his two children collected from a dock near Sequim Bay State Park on Washington`s Olympic Peninsula. The family took them back to their campsite and steamed them in white wine with garlic and oregano. It was really good. Like the best mussels in the whole wide world, remembers their son Jaycee,...
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Fracking produces annual toxic waste water enough to flood Washington DC
2013-10-04 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fracking in America generated 280bn US gallons of toxic waste water last year enough to flood all of Washington DC beneath a 22ft deep toxic lagoon, a new report out on Thursday found. The report from campaign group Environment America said America's transformation into an energy superpower was exacting growing costs on the environment. "Our analysis shows that damage from fracking is widespread and occurs on a scale unimagined just a few years ago," the report, Fracking by the Numbers, said....
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