Fracking and Radium, the Silvery-White Monster
Antiglobalizare, Economie, English section | 26 octombrie 2014 | Aciduzzul181 views, Fara comentarii
Karl Grossman
Fracking for gas not only uses toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking water and groundwater — it also releases substantial quantities of radioactive poison from the ground that will remain hot and deadly for thousands of years. Issuing a report recently, exposing major radioactive impacts of hydraulic fracturing — known as fracking — was Grassroots Environmental Education, an organization in New York, where extensive fracking is proposed. The Marcellus Shale region, which covers much of upstate New York, is seen as loaded with gas that can be released through the fracking process. It involves injecting fluid and chemicals citeste si comenteaza …