Well, Sludge Pit and Pipeline
Bradford County, PA
Bradford County, PA
Drilling: May 18, 2009(click to enlarge)
Capped, photo: July 8, 2009
Sludge Pit, noxious choking odorFrom Lax Laws Often Govern Waste Pits by Abrahm Lustgarten:
The pits can contain oil-laden waste water mixed with hydraulic fracturing fluids and drilling mud brought up from well bores. Tests show they often contain large amounts of benzene and other carcinogenic compounds.
Pipeline
Pipeline Crossing Wetland Stream(click to enlarge)
Pipeline: Note Child's Swing Set in Adjacent Backyard(click to enlarge)
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These pictures show what words cannot express. People's lives are being impacted in adverse ways, and the environment is being torn to pieces. For what?
ReplyDeleteAfter the pipeline is placed in the trench and covered up and grass grows over it, will it be forgotten? Somehow I think I would always be aware it was there, and I would not feel as safe as I once felt before the pipeline.
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