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A Barnett Shale Sludge Pit Looks Like This

November 21, 2007 By TXsharon

Another set of Sludge Pit pictures HERE (Notice in the comments the threat I received from “Big Oil” for posting these pictures.)

The Barnett Shale Energy Education EdUkAsHuN Council wants you to know believe that they care about our environment. I thought you might like to see some pictures of sludge pits. These are lined but most aren’t.

Operators are not required to line sludge pits unless it’s written into the lease agreement. Lining the ponds is no sure cure for protecting the environment but it’s better than nothing. Left with the choice, the operator will do nothing because it’s the least expensive.

If operators really cared about the environment, they would line ALL the pits.

Even when the ponds are lined they give off fumes and toxins escape into the air. Do we really want that water evaporating into our environment?

There’s no fence around this pit. Children, wildlife or domestic animals could easily fall into it. But, fences cost more and the oil and gas industry is only making hundreds of billions every year.

The liners often get torn or punctured.

Unless it’s prohibited by the lease, the operator can just bury this crap right on your land.

This spring when we had heavy rains the sludge pits overflowed and ran into Denton Creek.

They aren’t too careful installing liners so the gunk leaks out.

The oil and gas industry is exempt from the Clean Air and the Clean Water Acts. If they really want to protect our environment, they should help us lobby to remove those exemptions.

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Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

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Filed Under: Barnett Shale, oil and gas drilling. pollution, sludge pits

Comments

  1. The Watcher says

    November 21, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    My, my! Who woulda thunk that the oil and gas industry had ANYTHING but our welfare on its teeny, tiny, selfish, Republican little mind?

  2. Anonymous says

    June 20, 2008 at 4:25 am

    ya that was an educated comment

  3. Anonymous says

    June 6, 2009 at 1:52 am

    If sounds to be good be true,than its probaly not true.I am worried about all this gas drilling.It may bring money(right now alot people are hurting),but what about the contamination of our water.We are near a drilling site,not by choice,I think by some chance our ditch water which comes from the mountain may possibly be contaminated.That water just does not look right.

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