Quote from: RE on Apr 25, 2024, 06:51 AMAn insider's view at the world of Fracking clean up.

Not exactly environmentally friendly.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fracker-exposes-fossil-fuel-industry-toxic-lies-brine-1235009419/

A Reformed Fracker Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry's Toxic Lies

RE

That was a good article. Seems to over emphasize some of the obviously known issues (some of those mentioned have been happening since the 80's, they aren't modern inventions that came along with a 76 year old completion technique.

But a good article. It was difficult to tell sometimes, because of his gypsy work in multiple states, if he knew the differences between which organizations have regulatory primacy in the oil field in the locations he was discussing. You never see EPA folks related to oil field unless there is a big mess (oil on navigable waters being one) in Ohio, but in PA the state environmental agency is the primary enforcer (as opposed to someone like Oil and Gas Division in Ohio), not sure about New York, but they have some of those watershed issues that if you get caught polluting they will certainly hang you, and do regular testing to make sure it isn't happening.

Of the 3, Ohio is the most lax, and amusingly, the article doesn't mention the REAL issue burning up the industry/environmental relationship in that state. Some low end flunky wouldn't know that, but that issue is a doozy and I'm still waiting for it to hit the papers when some lawyer figures it out and a way they can make money suing to stop it. And industry will absolutely HOWL first, and then spend a bazillion dollars fighting it. It is a biggy, and structural in nature, not this someone dumping something here and there and doing a tell all.

There is a better story about NORM from WV, came out a year or more ago that is far more focused on that topic and thorough.