Pa. allows dumping of tainted waters from gas boom!

[Bravo Zulu]

Jim Riggio, plant manager for the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, shows a sample of solid materials removed from the Beaver River during treatment Dec. 15 at his plant.

Cecil Griffith, right, maintenance supervisor for the Beaver Falls (Pa.) Municipal Authority, and Jim Riggio, plant manager, watch the bubbler at one of the intake gates on the Beaver River at the authority's water treatment plant Dec. 15. Their water began flunking tests for trihalomethanes regularly last year, around the time that a facility 18 miles upstream became Pennsylvania's dominant gas wastewater treatment plant.

The natural gas boom gripping parts of the United States has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.

But not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush. In Pennsylvania, the liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful, then dumped into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11004/1115432-84.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX#ixzz1AwjqhjNE

[Angry Dragon]

1. Instead of holding these corporations to

environmental standards I wonder if people should just start charging them with attempted murder??


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[old mark]

2. In last November's election PA went nearly all GOP-our new governor

got big money from the gas industries, and there were many TV ads before the election telling us how wonderful the gas industry would be for PA if only we got rid of those pesky regulations.

I guess this is the start of the wonderfulness.

We already use a large filter for all our drinking water because it does not meet EPA standards and can not be made to meet them... due to excess lead and industrial chemicals. This will just add to the problems, and this is just the start.

We now have so few Democrats in our state legislature they have no power, a republican governor-and all his pals- and our new Senator - Pat Toomey-former wall street legal advisor and RW/teabagger asshole and "religious", too.

I'm thinking of moving to Texas...It might be more liberal.
K&R
mark

[Matariki]

3. Great, more of my relatives can die of cancer now.

evil motherfuckers.