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xADVANCED SEARCH Keyword(s) Date Range ››› Over 200 Water Bodies Have Been Damaged By Fracking Operations Blog ››› December 18, 2014 1:10 PM EST ››› DENISE ROBBINS Conservative media are praising Pennsylvania's fracking industry in order to criticize New York's recently announced ban on hydraulic fracturing, without mentioning the health impacts that it has had on Pennsylvania's drinking water and communities.
Despite a 2011 Pennsylvania guideline curbing the discharge of wastewater from the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, industry to water treatment plants, high levels of radium are still settling in some of the state’s stream sediments, according to a new study. The results suggest that some treatment plants that process wastewater derived from conventional oil and gas production are releasing this carcinogenic radionuclide.
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