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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Wed Feb 4, 2015, 06:37 AM Feb 2015

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Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking

http://www.juancole.com/2015/02/dakota-radioactive-fracking.html

Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking
By contributors | Feb. 4, 2015 |
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“Amid falling oil prices nationwide, energy industry players in North Dakota want officials to alter radioactive waste disposal laws so that more toxic fracking fluid can be stored in-state, saving companies tens of thousands of dollars per truckload.”

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Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking (Original Post) unhappycamper Feb 2015 OP

more and more Pollution from fracking. more and more.... riversedge Feb 2015 #1

I say only if the execs of the companies are required to live next door to the storage facilities Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2015 #2

This isn't a proud time for our country. RiverLover Feb 2015 #3

riversedge

(70,277 posts)

1. more and more Pollution from fracking. more and more....

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 06:53 AM

Feb 2015

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

2. I say only if the execs of the companies are required to live next door to the storage facilities

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 07:05 AM

Feb 2015

for the rest of their lives, and use groundwater to supply their household water needs.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)

3. This isn't a proud time for our country.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 07:26 AM

Feb 2015

Profits more important than human lives.

Despicable.

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