Comments on: Natural Gas Booming & Coal Mining Busting in WV https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/11/17/natural-gas-booming-coal-mining-busting-in-wv/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: SkyLark https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/11/17/natural-gas-booming-coal-mining-busting-in-wv/#comment-133361 SkyLark Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:36:15 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=13115#comment-133361 Don't know whose well it is, but the gas well near Mt. Morris, Greene County, PA, east of I-79, is still lighting up the sky after about a week. Not as noticeable, but still there. I wonder how much gas they've burned in this flaring phase. (Mt. Morris is also on the Mason-Dixon Line, between Morgantown, WV, and Waynesburg, PA.) Don’t know whose well it is, but the gas well near Mt. Morris, Greene County, PA, east of I-79, is still lighting up the sky after about a week. Not as noticeable, but still there.

I wonder how much gas they’ve burned in this flaring phase.

(Mt. Morris is also on the Mason-Dixon Line, between Morgantown, WV, and Waynesburg, PA.)

]]> By: A P Mama https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/11/17/natural-gas-booming-coal-mining-busting-in-wv/#comment-132027 A P Mama Wed, 19 Nov 2014 01:00:20 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=13115#comment-132027 I would add that everyone should be talking about radioactivity in the drill cuttings: radium-226 (which turns to radon gas very quickly and has a half-life of 1600 years), radium-228, thorium, and strontium. These are carcinogens and found abundantly in the Marcellus stratum. These are currently being sent to municipal landfills that are only equipped to take household trash. We do not seem to have an industrial landfill here, but the 255,000 tons of drill mud in Wetzel County alone in 2013 is enough to give one pause. Our regulators need to do a better job of handling this very dangerous material, and soon! There is at least one landowner in the state who has offered his farm as a site for a landfill of this type. Try as he might, he can't find anyone to develop it, or any legislators who are interested in supporting its use, but this is the next wave. Get ready ! If we don't control for this radioactivity, it is going to get the better of us, and we likely won't know until it is too late. It has already been going on now for ten years and we know of cases where there have been releases into the public water supply. Who is studying this? What conclusions can we draw if we are not collecting the data? I would add that everyone should be talking about radioactivity in the drill cuttings: radium-226 (which turns to radon gas very quickly and has a half-life of 1600 years), radium-228, thorium, and strontium.

These are carcinogens and found abundantly in the Marcellus stratum. These are currently being sent to municipal landfills that are only equipped to take household trash.

We do not seem to have an industrial landfill here, but the 255,000 tons of drill mud in Wetzel County alone in 2013 is enough to give one pause. Our regulators need to do a better job of handling this very dangerous material, and soon!

There is at least one landowner in the state who has offered his farm as a site for a landfill of this type. Try as he might, he can’t find anyone to develop it, or any legislators who are interested in supporting its use, but this is the next wave. Get ready !

If we don’t control for this radioactivity, it is going to get the better of us, and we likely won’t know until it is too late. It has already been going on now for ten years and we know of cases where there have been releases into the public water supply.

Who is studying this? What conclusions can we draw if we are not collecting the data?

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