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Originally Posted by buckman
I laugh when people say big oil is making tons of money. The oil company takes all the risk and makes $.10 a gallon while the state and federal government steals $.50 a gallon. But they are okay with that
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not so sure about that ask the people in residents of Nordheim, Texas, a town of 300 people South Texas call for billions of gallons of toxic sludge to be dumped in the plastic-lined pits left open to the air, where fracking waste is allowed to evaporate. What’s left behind is a viscous goop that’s mixed with soil and eventually buried on-site. the EPA and others have found that the fumes contain chemicals known to be hazardous to human health, including volatile organic compounds like benzene. But, because oil and gas waste is exempted from federal hazardous waste regulations, most states don’t require monitoring waste pit air emissions. It’s impossible to know whether chemicals are drifting into the air at levels that could affect human health. plenty of risk .
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