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" ... On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. ... "
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Oct 21, 2012 | Bryan TX
Injection wells have proliferated over the last 60 years, in large part because they are the cheapest, most expedient way to manage hundreds of billions of gallons of industrial waste generated in the U.S. each year. Yet the dangers of injection are well known: In accidents dating back to the 1960s, toxic materials have bubbled up to the surface or escaped, contaminating aquifers that store supplies of drinking water.
Read Entire Article: The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Shockingly Lax Rules for Drillers that Inject Pollutants Into the Earth | Alternet:
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But [for] regulatory concessions won by the energy industry over the last three decades made it legal to dump similar substances into the Rosharon site – as long as they came from drilling. (Abrahm Lustgarten. Sep 20, 2012. LINK )
This report is all about the past thirty years and all the damage has already been done. The question of whether the toxic waste is prevalent or not, it is, and the discussion is moot.
It is the typical example of profit based interests taking from the environment more than they give back. IN FACT THIS GROSS ABUSE HAS LEFT GROUNDWATER AND AQUIFERS POLLUTED.
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http://www.alternet.org/fracking/trillion-gallon-loophole-shockingly-lax-rules-drillers-inject-pollutants-earth?akid=9430.316738.8HVqs6&rd=1&src=newsletter714530&t=5
http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/435949-well-permits-and-records-salt-water-005-001.html
http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/435925-csb-report-blsr-report.html
http://www.propublica.org/article/injection-wells-the-poison-beneath-us
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