Drumbeat: February 15, 2013

Drumbeat: February 15, 2013

FOR ALL - Proof again Rockman no speak with forked tongue. LOL. "The owner of a Youngstown company that injects “fracking” wastes into disposal wells pleaded not guilty yesterday to deliberately dumping thousands of gallons of the toxic mixture into the Mahoning River." From the start of the concerns over frac fluid contamination I repeated warned my Yankee cousins to stop focusing only on those big red frac trucks at the well site but watch those harmless looking tank trucks hauling those nasty fluids away and pay very close attention to the disposal companies. News from Youngstown, Ohio, this morning: a disposal company has been dumping frac fluids into the storm system that empties the nasties directly into the river system. But even the NPR report misleads the public by referring to the polluter as a “driller”. That company has never drilled/frac’d a well. BTW with so ...

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