Pictures: Hydraulic Fracturing Emissions in Wise and Denton Counties

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Denton County, FM 1173
I watched these fumes every day for over a week. They show up much better at night.

Don’t forget that sludge pits also have emmissions.

Wise County FM 730
Emissions sometimes show up better at night. Hydraulic Fracturing.

This is an old sludge pit that was never cleaned up per the state regulations. It sat for years until it was recently reworked and lined. A big black hose meanders about 1.5 miles in the bar-ditch and across creeks to deliver the toxic drilling waste from one drilling site to this pit. The curious thing is that the drilling site also has a sludge pit. That’s a log of toxic soup! Today this sludge pit was full up to the brim.