oil & gas companies produce tons of literal radioactive waste and then sell it to rural towns to spread it on roads as de-icer. radium. fucking radium. radium on the roads, in the water, in the soil. radiation in the cornfields. nobody is warned, nobody is told, nobody knows to check for fucking radium. this shit will outlive us. that dirt is radioactive forever. this isnt shit you can undo. xxxxxx
Update:
Apparently Ohio is going to stop using it, but what we really need to worry about is House Bill 282 which would label the brine as a commodity rather than a waste product which would make it much easier to buy.
