| This is why I drink bottled water. "The documents reveal that the wastewater, which is sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle." "...some sewage treatment plants were incapable of removing certain drilling waste contaminants and were probably violating the law." "radioactivity in drilling waste cannot be fully diluted in rivers and other waterways." And the EPA has not intervened. from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html Also: "Environmental officials in Pennsylvania have failed to adequately regulate the state’s booming natural gas industry, a state report said, reflecting what critics say is weak oversight of the oil and gas industry at a time when drilling is spreading across the United States." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/us/pennsylvanias-auditor-g... |