Comments on: Radioactive Drilling Wastes Accumulating at Alarming Rate https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/09/17/radioactive-drilling-wastes-accumulating-at-alarming-rate/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: april keating https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/09/17/radioactive-drilling-wastes-accumulating-at-alarming-rate/#comment-179296 april keating Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:31:47 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=15494#comment-179296 There is one very important thing not being considered, and that is the tests used by the WV Water Research Institute are THE WRONG TESTS. To my knowledge, unless the WV-WRI has changed protocol, they are still using the 900 series, which is only good on treated drinking water. Any water high in TDS (total dissolved solids) or TSS (total suspended solids) must be tested with the 21-day hold test. This is the only way to detect all of the alpha and beta particles in the water. This is because, as the article above points out, alpha and beta particles can be blocked from detection by things in the water. That means that if Ziemkiewicz is unconcerned about the alpha particles, maybe that's because he doesn't have accurate info as to how much there really IS in that water. >>>>>>>>>>>>> See section I, flaw II, for confirmation of my point --- http://www.fractracker.org/2015/08/landfill-disposal-wv-waste/ There is one very important thing not being considered, and that is the tests used by the WV Water Research Institute are THE WRONG TESTS. To my knowledge, unless the WV-WRI has changed protocol, they are still using the 900 series, which is only good on treated drinking water.

Any water high in TDS (total dissolved solids) or TSS (total suspended solids) must be tested with the 21-day hold test. This is the only way to detect all of the alpha and beta particles in the water. This is because, as the article above points out, alpha and beta particles can be blocked from detection by things in the water. That means that if Ziemkiewicz is unconcerned about the alpha particles, maybe that’s because he doesn’t have accurate info as to how much there really IS in that water.

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See section I, flaw II, for confirmation of my point —

http://www.fractracker.org/2015/08/landfill-disposal-wv-waste/

]]> By: Lois Marie Gibbs https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2015/09/17/radioactive-drilling-wastes-accumulating-at-alarming-rate/#comment-179122 Lois Marie Gibbs Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:21:40 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=15494#comment-179122 <strong>Fracking Wastes Are Dangerous and Should be Regulated As Toxic & Radioactive Wastes</strong> <em>Tell Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Gina McCarthy to update waste disposal regulations on fracking waste NOW</em>!   Several groups and individuals filed a notice of intent to sue on August 26, 2015 including the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, Environmental Integrity Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthworks, Responsible Drilling Alliance, San Juan Citizens Alliance, and West Virginia Surface Owners Rights Organization.  We are calling on EPA to comply with its long-overdue obligations to update waste disposal rules that should have been revised more than a quarter century ago. The oil and gas industry is growing by leaps and bounds.  EPA must do its job and update and enforce these vital regulations. Our water and air are threatened by toxic waste from the improper storage of fracking wastes while corporate polluters are allowed to run wild. Homes, small businesses, and low income and indigenous communities are being laid to waste by an industry that is virtually unregulated. <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/852/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=18368" rel="nofollow">Please sign our petition</a> and stop the unsafe toxic disposal of fracking wastes today.   >>>> Lois Marie Gibbs, Ph.D., Leadership Training Academy Program, Center for Health, Environment & Justice <<<<   (O) 703-237-2249 ext. 130  (F) 703-237-8389 Center for Health, Environment & Justice Mentoring a Movement, Empowering people, Preventing harm LGibbs@chej.org |  www.CHEJ.ORG Fracking Wastes Are Dangerous and Should be Regulated As Toxic & Radioactive Wastes

Tell Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Gina McCarthy to update waste disposal regulations on fracking waste NOW!
 
Several groups and individuals filed a notice of intent to sue on August 26, 2015 including the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, Environmental Integrity Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthworks, Responsible Drilling Alliance, San Juan Citizens Alliance, and West Virginia Surface Owners Rights Organization. 

We are calling on EPA to comply with its long-overdue obligations to update waste disposal rules that should have been revised more than a quarter century ago.

The oil and gas industry is growing by leaps and bounds.  EPA must do its job and update and enforce these vital regulations. Our water and air are threatened by toxic waste from the improper storage of fracking wastes while corporate polluters are allowed to run wild. Homes, small businesses, and low income and indigenous communities are being laid to waste by an industry that is virtually unregulated.

Please sign our petition and stop the unsafe toxic disposal of fracking wastes today.
 
>>>> Lois Marie Gibbs, Ph.D., Leadership Training Academy Program,
Center for Health, Environment & Justice < <<<
 
(O) 703-237-2249 ext. 130  (F) 703-237-8389
Center for Health, Environment & Justice
Mentoring a Movement, Empowering people, Preventing harm
LGibbs@chej.org |  www.CHEJ.ORG

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