Grist: Where frackers go, lagoons filled with toxic wastewater follow. Fracking wastewater impoundment lots as big as football fields already dot heavily fracked landscapes in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The lagoons are built to help the industry manage and reuse the vast volumes of wastewater that it produces. Ohio lawmakers looked admiringly to their neighboring Marcellus Shale states and decided to draw up their own rules for wastewater lagoons. From The Columbus Dispatch: “We are putting in a......
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Lagoons filled with toxic water coming to Ohio’s fracklands
Posted by Grist: John Upton on October 14th, 2013
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