Comments on: Update: Radioactivity in Western Penna. & Monongahela River https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/07/25/update-radioactivity-in-western-penna-monongahela-river/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jim Guzzi https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/07/25/update-radioactivity-in-western-penna-monongahela-river/#comment-176169 Jim Guzzi Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:29:24 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=15093#comment-176169 WOW! Is there any state or federal agency out there that actually wants to help the little guy? It's all about MR. oil and gas. I am a surface owner-like most in rural West Virginia. Surface rights are the same as NO rights, just ask ANTERO. They now want me to sign an agreement to let them inject frack water under my surface. The contaminated oops sorry I mean DIRTY water according to ANTERO will be injected into an experimental well 7000 feet deep on my neighbors property and go under mine. I asked the agent from Denver that came to my house (because one other surface owner and me are the only ones that haven't signed) if I say no how would I know what you are doing 7000 feet under my property? He said you won't unless you got $5,000,000 to drill your own well to see if we're pumping frack water under your surface. WRONG Answer. There is no city water out here. What do I do? WOW! Is there any state or federal agency out there that actually wants to help the little guy? It’s all about MR. oil and gas.

I am a surface owner-like most in rural West Virginia. Surface rights are the same as NO rights, just ask ANTERO.

They now want me to sign an agreement to let them inject frack water under my surface. The contaminated oops sorry I mean DIRTY water according to ANTERO will be injected into an experimental well 7000 feet deep on my neighbors property and go under mine.

I asked the agent from Denver that came to my house (because one other surface owner and me are the only ones that haven’t signed) if I say no how would I know what you are doing 7000 feet under my property? He said you won’t unless you got $5,000,000 to drill your own well to see if we’re pumping frack water under your surface.

WRONG Answer. There is no city water out here. What do I do?

]]> By: Tom Rhule https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/07/25/update-radioactivity-in-western-penna-monongahela-river/#comment-176144 Tom Rhule Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:50:47 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=15093#comment-176144 West Virginia University’s Paul Ziemkiewicz may have a vested interest in NEVER finding radium in frack waste, because of the grants from FilterSure Inc. of McLean, Va. to his beloved "Water Research Institute" at WVU. FilterSure basically hired Dr. Z to lead a group of his WVU students to "invent" a way to recycle frack waste water right at the well pad. Although their experiment went just fine as long as the waste water they used had no measurable radium content in it before it ran through their gizmo, they somehow never got around to publishing results from recycling TRUE Marcellus flowback from local HORIZONTALLY drilled wells, which, according to USGS research, contain an average of 2,460 picoCuries per liter of Radium 226, or 164 times that which is allowed into streams from nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, other states with less radioactive shale are having real problems disposing of their recycling filter media. But the West Virginia DEP never requires measuring for radionuclides from the Marcellus. As a result, Dr. Z's FilterSure clients can dump used radioactive filter media just about anywhere they please! BTW it was Ziemkiewicz's WVU TDS monitors that were located so far downstream from the coal slurry injection site on Dunkard Creek that they were prevented from predicting the horrible fish kill on that beautiful stream back in 2009. Dr. Z's theory of "dilution is the solution to pollution" backfired by placing those monitors so far downstream from the Blacksville #2 mine injection site that the golden algae was able to take over before it could be controlled. No radionuclides were found at Dunkard Creek though, because amazingly, no one from the WV DEP ever measured for it! West Virginia University’s Paul Ziemkiewicz may have a vested interest in NEVER finding radium in frack waste, because of the grants from FilterSure Inc. of McLean, Va. to his beloved “Water Research Institute” at WVU.

FilterSure basically hired Dr. Z to lead a group of his WVU students to “invent” a way to recycle frack waste water right at the well pad. Although their experiment went just fine as long as the waste water they used had no measurable radium content in it before it ran through their gizmo, they somehow never got around to publishing results from recycling TRUE Marcellus flowback from local HORIZONTALLY drilled wells, which, according to USGS research, contain an average of 2,460 picoCuries per liter of Radium 226, or 164 times that which is allowed into streams from nuclear power plants.

Meanwhile, other states with less radioactive shale are having real problems disposing of their recycling filter media. But the West Virginia DEP never requires measuring for radionuclides from the Marcellus. As a result, Dr. Z’s FilterSure clients can dump used radioactive filter media just about anywhere they please!

BTW it was Ziemkiewicz’s WVU TDS monitors that were located so far downstream from the coal slurry injection site on Dunkard Creek that they were prevented from predicting the horrible fish kill on that beautiful stream back in 2009. Dr. Z’s theory of “dilution is the solution to pollution” backfired by placing those monitors so far downstream from the Blacksville #2 mine injection site that the golden algae was able to take over before it could be controlled. No radionuclides were found at Dunkard Creek though, because amazingly, no one from the WV DEP ever measured for it!

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