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CONFIRMED: water contaminated by Barnett Shale drilling waste pits

March 17, 2011 By TXsharon

Natural gas extraction creates MASSIVE amounts of toxic and radioactive waste. Industry has no viable plan for how to safely handle that waste and our regulators fail to protect our VITAL natural resources.
Drilling pits taint Montague County water

MONTAGUE COUNTY — North Texas ranchers and homeowners are fighting open pits of drilling mud waste near their properties, but there’s little they can do.

Now comes confirmation that some of those pits are contaminating four water wells in Montague County

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There are thousands of abandoned and buried pits all over North Texas.

Water contamination from drilling waste pits is why New Mexico passed their pit rule.
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EOG buries oil based drilling mud in Montague County

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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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  1. TXsharon says

    March 17, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    I have been telling people about these pits for FRACKING YEARS.

  2. David says

    March 18, 2011 at 2:31 am

    Watch CRUDE on Netflix:


    Big O&G lost the case but its on appeal. There tactics of deny any wrong doing seam so familiar.

  3. TXsharon says

    March 18, 2011 at 4:47 am

    Crude is a fantastic documentary.

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  1. Vietnam veteran victim of Pioneer Natural Resources strong-arm tactics in Eagle Ford Shale says:
    November 12, 2012 at 11:37 am

    […] pit and its contents will be buried on the land. Drilling waste has been proven highly toxic and burying waste pits has been traced to many cases of groundwater contamination. In Pennsylvania 28 beef cattle were quarantined after exposure to drilling waste from an […]

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