"It's my land and I should be able to do anything I want with it," was the response to an article that appeared in the Altoona Mirror. The article reports on the new regulation for the dissolving of solids called for by the state of Pennsylvania in the Marcellus Shale. Concerns were raised when a study of the Monongahela River yielded high concentrations of dissolved solids. "Dilution can no longer be considered an adequate treatment," DEP Secretary John Hanger wrote.
I continued to read the article and what it boils down to is this...money. According to the industry, it would cost them something like $49,000 per gallon per minute if they followed the new regulations. So, I wonder what it costs them now to just dump the waste into the water way? This article just leaves too many questions unanswered. The figure of $49,000 was provided by an industry environmental manager...can we say...an employee hired to say what we want them to say? It's like the commercials you see for cigarettes...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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$49,000 per gallon per minute? That's about as much as high level radioactive waste costs!
What was he smoking? Carbon filtering, then reverse osmosis is nowhere near that expensive.
Thank you, Anon...that's exactly what I was thinking. So, either the waste is really really really toxic waste and shouldn't be dumped into water ways...or that guy is making up numbers.
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