radioactive waste from nuclear power: ok spend 40 years and who knows how much money proving that putting it a kilometre under-fucking-ground will not release more radiation than background in the worst-case scenario, for 100000 years, and maybe we’ll stop sandbagging and let you build it
radioactive waste from oil and gas: eh whatever bro just dump it in fucking landfills and rivers, who give a shit
This makes me so so SO fucking mad you’re telling me that the fucking RADON that POISONED my grandma and gave her LUNG CANCER and KILLED HER is because of FRACKING? I DROVE PAST A FRACKING OPERATION EVERY TIME I WENT TO VISIT HER. Fucking doctors told us that radon gas just HAPPENED to be seeping up through the basement because that just happens in Ohio sometimes! IT WAS BECAUSE FRACKING PUT THE GOD DAMN RADON IN THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!
AND. IN THE GOD DAMN MEANTIME. Because of the gas prices I’ve been seeing POLITICAL ADS talking about INCREASING LOCAL FRACKING OPERATIONS I AM SO FUCKING LIVID
doctors told us that radon gas just HAPPENED to be seeping up through the basement because that just happens in Ohio sometimes!
well, that is the case. some rocks have radon gas trapped in them which leaks out over time. if you build a house from or on such rocks it might have dangerous levels of radon gas in it. however, fracking essentially crushes rocks underground to release trapped gas. if that includes radon then it gets into the wastewater (called “brine”) from the fracking well so… sometimes the ground gives you radiation poisoning, but fracking is basically digging that poison up to make cancer juice.
the fracking might not have poisoned your grandma but even if they didn’t they probably hurt someone else. you can read about some cases in this article
In the summer of 2017, Siri Lawson noticed a group of Amish girls walking down the side of a dirt road near the horse farm where she lives with her husband in Farmington Township, Pennsylvania. The girls, dressed in aprons and blue bonnets, had taken off their shoes and were walking barefoot. Lawson was horrified. She knew the road had been freshly laced with brine.
Radioactive oil-and-gas waste is purposely spread on roadways around the country. The industry pawns off brine — offering it for free — on rural townships that use the salty solution as a winter de-icer and, in the summertime, as a dust tamper on unpaved roads.
Brine-spreading is legal in 13 states, including the Dakotas, Colorado, much of the Upper Midwest, northern Appalachia, and New York. In 2016 alone, 11 million gallons of oil-field brine were spread on roads in Pennsylvania, and 96 percent was spread in townships in the state’s remote northwestern corner, where Lawson lives. Much of the brine is spread for dust control in summer, when contractors pick up the waste directly at the wellhead, says Lawson, then head to Farmington to douse roads. On a single day in August 2017, 15,300 gallons of brine were reportedly spread.
“After Lindell Road got brined, I had a violent response,” reads Lawson’s comments in a 2017 lawsuit she brought against the state. “For nearly 10 days, especially when I got near the road, I reacted with excruciating eye, nose, and lung burning. My tongue swelled to the point my teeth left indentations. My sinus reacted with a profound overgrowth of polyps, actually preventing nose breathing.”
The oil-and-gas industry has “found a legal way to dispose of waste,” says Lawson, 65, who worked as a horse trainer but is no longer able to ride professionally because of her illnesses. Sitting in her dining room, surrounded by pictures she has taken to document the contamination — brine running down the side of a road, an Amish woman lifting her dress to avoid being sprayed — she tells me the brine is spread regularly on roads that abut cornfields, cow pastures, and trees tapped for maple syrup sold at a local farmer’s market.
“There is nothing to remediate it with,” says Avner Vengosh, a Duke University geochemist. “The high radioactivity in the soil at some of these sites will stay forever.” Radium-226 has a half-life of 1,600 years. The level of uptake into agricultural crops grown in contaminated soil is unknown because it hasn’t been adequately studied.
Ohio is one of the states where brine-spreading is legal, so if that was done near your grandma’s house, yeah, it very well might have been fracking that poisoned her.
Yeah a well-kept secret of oil gas and coal is that they produce more nuclear waste per kilowatt of electricity than nuclear energy does.
The wealthy will kill as many of you as is profitable and won’t give a shit when you cry to them about it
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