Billions of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater Dumped in Gulf

Obama Administration Permitted 1,200 Offshore Fracks in Gulf of Mexico

Documents Show Billions of Gallons of Oil Waste Fluid Dumped Into Gulf Waters

"Federal officials permitted more than 1,200 offshore fracks by oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010 to 2014, according to federal documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity.

The fracks occurred in at least 630 different wells off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, ...

“The Obama administration is essentially letting oil companies frack at will in Gulf ecosystems and dump billions of gallons of oil waste into coastal waters,” said Kristen Monsell, a Center attorney. “Every offshore frack increases the risk to wildlife and coastal communities, yet federal officials have been just rubber-stamping this toxic practice in the Gulf of Mexico for years.”

...At least 10 fracking chemicals routinely used in offshore fracking could kill or harm a broad variety of marine species, including sea otters and fish, Center scientists have found. Other scientists have identified some common fracking chemicals to be among the most toxic in the world to marine animals."

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2016/offsho...

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Permalink Reply by craig on August 2, 2016 at 4:26pm

Read the actual article, no laws were broken. 

For Pete's sake Paul, call the problem what it is...Lack of the gov't doing their job, plain and simple, they allowed the dumping of the frack water in the ocean, if that's what has you all worked up.

Maybe from a scientific viewpoint the addition of the frack water to the actual Gulf of Mexico is like putting a grain of salt in a glass of water?

0ym9x5ag7ury2Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on August 3, 2016 at 2:43am

"No laws were broken".

Have I heard this statement a lot since Oil and Gas came to our fair Basin.

Maybe this would be better said as: "No one has acknowledged that Laws have been broken".

It's easy to look up the laws and find the laws that apply, but it's near impossible to get elected officials to acknowledge these laws being broken when they see all the benefits $$$$$ to our society, at least to those who count.

Permalink Reply by craig on August 3, 2016 at 5:28am

You are completely wrong on this particular circumstance Ron. We are all guilty at some point in reading an article with preconceived ideas.

Read the article and related items, they were allowed by our gov't to dump the frack water into the Gulf, legally. 

I grant you have been right on a myriad other gas related issues though and I have no argument with you on those. I also think the gov't shouldn't have allowed this.

0ym9x5ag7ury2Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on August 3, 2016 at 2:37am

Drillers have been dumping frack water into Ohio's Mahoning River (Warren Waste Facility - "Dilution Is The Solution To Pollution"); also the Allegany, and Monongahela Rivers of PA. 

These Rivers first join to form the Ohio River and visits those cities that use the Ohio for their water source. Then the Ohio makes it's way to the Mississippi and out to the Gulf.

Drillers are just going straight to the dumping grounds rather than hauling the frack water east and dumping into Our Rivers.

Do I agree with this, no. Can I stop this, no. By the time this issue shows up as Ohio Valley citizens with clusters of all forms of disease, the wells will have been drilled and the money will be used to make this all right with the lawyers who represent us in this Civil Matter. Another Transfer Of Wealth. 

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