"Spraying roads with “produced water,” highly saline wastewater containing proprietary drilling chemicals as well as benzene, arsenic and radium 226 and 228, both radioactive isotopes, has been outlawed in #Pennsylvania since 2016."
“The reality is, even though dumping on roads is illegal, it is happening all the time, every day,” said Hess.
#germanAmericanSurname of the day is FRACK, derived from Middle Low German vrak ‘greedy, stingy’ or from its homonym meaning ‘damaged, useless’. Frackville, PA is named after DANIEL FRACK. #fracking
It's absolutely wild that this article on the frightening rise in early onset colorectal cancer doesn't mention the precipitous increase in microplastics and nanoplastics in our bodies as a potential carcinogen. Lifestyle, diet, medications, heavy metals, and PFAS are mentioned, but not microplastics (or pesticides!!).
As severe Alberta drought looms, fracking consumes huge volumes of water — forever
“Although the oilsands consume the vast majority of all water used by the oil and gas industry in Alberta, fracking has grown ever-thirstier over the past decade — and the water it uses is gone from the water cycle for good.” #Fracking#Oilsands#Water#Canada#cdnpoli
It uses "a major comparative study of water beings in diverse cultural and historical contexts, and considers the central importance of water beings such as Māori taniwha and the Australian Rainbow Serpent in such legal conflicts, and in broader debates about human and non-human rights. Like other water deities around the world, these beings personify the generative (and potentially punitive) powers of water and its co-creative role in shaping human and non-human lives. They are resurfacing today with an important representational role in contemporary conflicts over land and water." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5375
And this: Yinbarnini Ngukunginyi (Singing of Water) on #Indigenous challenges to #fracking near #Mudburra Country (N.T.)
"they point to the existence of stygofauna – tiny creatures that live in the underground water – which, though known to the traditional owners for millennia, are relatively new to western science. (It is likely that a word for stygofauna existed in the Mudburra language, but as far as we know it has not survived.) Research to establish environmental baselines prior to the commencement of fracking indicates that the stygofauna perform a vital function in purifying the underground water, and that they would be seriously threatened by fracking operations. As part of the protest movement against fracking, the authors have composed a song about stygofauna to be taught to the Mudburra children at Newcastle Waters School."
Na ja, wenn Prof. Buiter das so sagt, dann gibt es wohl nur ein Restrisiko und wir sollten beruhigt sein. Die Risiken und Gefahren der geologischen Sequestrierung, die bspw. das UBA berichtet (Link s. o.), sind demnach so tolerabel, dass #Habeck den Schutz der Umwelt versprechen kann?
Mich erinnert diese Diskussion stark an die Diskussion um das #Fracking, in der die Spezialexperten auch meinen, die Methode sei an sich so gut wie sicher.
"#California's Geologic Energy Management Division (#CalGEM) said in a draft rule that it will officially cease to approve hydraulic fracturing permits on California oil and gas wells.
CalGEM said it will hold a virtual public hearing on the #fracking rule on Tuesday, March 26 ahead of the public comment deadline."
Warum die Ölpreise trotz Förderkürzungen der OPEC+ fallen
Die OPEC+ hat eine weitere Drosselung der Ölproduktion angekündigt. Doch die Märkte nehmen dem Ölkartell seine Entschlossenheit zu Förderkürzungen nicht ab - die Ölpreise geben deutlich nach. Von Angela Göpfert.
The lack of a safe disposal site for #fracking water (can cause earthquakes esp when injected deep AND groundwater contamination when injected shallow) in the capital of TX (?US?) oil production (my hometown, #MidlandTX) is forcing a choice between oil production and human habitability.