A damaging look at the #US shale #oil & #gas industry with wide potentially wide-ranging consequences: rollingstone.com/politics/polit… #GlobalTrends #Energy #Environment #Risks Some takeaways...(1/11)
2/11 "..a sweeping arc of contamination - #oil & #gas waste spilled, spread and dumped across America..." #GlobalTrends #Environment #Risks
3/11 Radioactive waste of the #US #oil & #gas industry a large-scale issue...#Risks #Environment
4/11 "There is no one federal agency that specifically regulates the radioactivity brought to the surface by #oil & #gas wastes." #Environment #Risks
5/11 "...the agency does not monitor oil-field workers for radiation doses.." #Energy #FrackingRisks
6/11 "The levels of radium in Louisiana #oil pipes had registered as much as 20,000 times the limits set by the EPA for topsoil at uranium-mill waste sites." #Risks
7/11 "The lack of research and specialisation has made it hard to reach a consensus on the #risks and has facilitated the spread of misinformation." #US #oil
8/11 "If we caught some ISIS terrorist cells dumping this into our waterways, they would be tried for terrorism and the use of a WMD on #US citizens. However the #Fracking industry is given a pass on all of this." #Risks
9/11 "The industry pawns off brine - offering it for free - on rural townships that use the salty solution as a winter de-icer.." #US #oil #environment #risks #cancer
10/11 #Investors in #US oil & gas companies take note: "..sending solid #oil & #gas waste like drill cuttings to a low-level radioactive-waste facility could mean as much as a 100-fold increase in cost.." #US #Risks
11/11 "There is a massive liability that has been lying silently below the surface all these years.." #US #oil #risks
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