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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 01:14 PM Sep 2016

EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37710-epa-plans-to-allow-unlimited-dumping-of-fracking-wastewater-in-the-gulf-of-mexico

Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf of Mexico is in violation of federal law.

In a letter sent to EPA officials on Monday, attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity warned that the agency's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlife.

The attorneys claim that regulators do not fully understand how the chemicals used in offshore fracking and other well treatments -- some of which are toxic and dangerous to human and marine life -- can impact marine environments, and crucial parts of the draft permit are based on severely outdated data. Finalizing the draft permit as it stands would be a violation of the Clean Water Act, they argue.

"The EPA is endangering an entire ecosystem by allowing the oil industry to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and drilling waste fluid into the Gulf of Mexico," said Center attorney Kristen Monsell. "This appalling plan from the agency that's supposed to protect our water violates federal law, and shows a disturbing disregard for offshore fracking's toxic threats to sea turtles and other Gulf wildlife."


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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico (Original Post) KamaAina Sep 2016 OP
The government has no real solution to fracking waste or nuclear waste. guillaumeb Sep 2016 #1
Wtf is right . Isnt it still full of corexit? Ohioblue22 Sep 2016 #2

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
1. The government has no real solution to fracking waste or nuclear waste.
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 01:17 PM
Sep 2016

So the taxpayers bear the burden as industry externalizes the costs.

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