ApocaDocs: 'Fracking' brine | Gas-well waste full of radium

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Posted Tue Sep 4 2012: from Columbus Dispatch:


	'Fracking' brine \| Gas-well waste full of radium http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1346801061 Millions of barrels of wastewater trucked into Ohio from shale-gas wells in Pennsylvania might be highly radioactive, according to a government study. Radium in one sample of Marcellus shale wastewater, also called brine, that Pennsylvania officials collected in 2009 was 3,609 times more radioactive than a federal safety limit for drinking water. It was 300 times higher than a Nuclear Regulatory Commission limit for industrial discharges to water. The December 2011 study, compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey, also found that the median levels of radium in brine from Marcellus shale wells was more than three times higher than brine collected from conventional oil and gas wells.

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'Doc Jim says:

Arrrrr! Is that radium in your brine or are you just happy to see me!