Some water treatment plants refuse to take fracking fluid

[PA Democrat]

WASHINGTON -- Several wastewater treatment plants in Western Pennsylvania have stopped taking in waste from natural gas hydraulic fracturing amid controversy about potential waterway contamination.

Testifying before a Senate committee examining natural gas extraction, Environmental Protection Agency deputy administrator Robert Perciasepe was asked about a recent flap over stream contamination related to wastewater treatment plants. A New York Times report about radiation found in Pennsylvania streams near plants that treat fracking "flowback" water prompted additional testing and information gathering from EPA and state officials.

Mr. Perciasepe also revealed that, "In many cases, those plants have stopped taking some of those fracking fluids."


Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Katy Gresh said seven treatment plants, including six in southwestern Pennsylvania, have ceased processing fracking waste. She couldn't say for sure their reasons for doing so.



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[livetohike]

1. They should take all those tanks to the Governor's mansion

and park it all around there so the idiot can physically see the problem. He's too ignorant to comprehend it, I believe.