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Gas Companies Dump Radioactive Waste into Water Supply


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With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene and radioactive elements like radium... 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...

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hydrofracking for gas by Allen Gerhardt on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:29:13 AM
What is even worse... by John Moffett on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:18:23 AM
o' course... by Ned Lud on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:49:56 AM
Vaccines are like radioactivity to "Ned" by John Moffett on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:04:25 AM
johnny on the spot by Ned Lud on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:11:34 AM
Actually "Ned" by John Moffett on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:37:29 AM
troubled in mind by Ned Lud on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:47:11 AM
"Ned" by John Moffett on Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:54:13 PM