MARCH 6, 2015 BY 21WIRE
21st Century Wire says…
As each day passes, the case against fracking becomes more and more overwhelming. In Pennsylvania alone, there have been
over 1,400 environmental violations attributed to
hydraulic fracturing, or
“fracking” deep
gas wells. So why aren’t government officials taking a more aggressive
stance toward the fracking industry’s damning environmental health
record? Answer: money and power.
The report below by
Truthstream Media
outlines in grave detail, that there are near invisible nuclear-based,
radioactive materials incorporated into the fracking process. To release
the shale gas and oil, engineers must inject millions of gallons of
water and ‘frack fluid’ containing 600 chemicals – many of them toxic
and some radioactive – into the ground at a high pressure in order to
force natural gas to the surface. This process has been
proven to contaminate well and drinking water for nearby residents in over
1,000 documented cases
so far.
And that’s only the tiny tip of a very dangerous iceberg…
Shock: Fracking Used to Inject Nuclear Waste Underground for Decades
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Truthstream Media
Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried
beneath the Earth’s surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a
means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy
production.
Fracking is already a controversial practice on
its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic,
potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planet’s surface
— as a means of “see no evil” waste disposal — already sounds
ridiculous, dangerous, and stupid anyway without even going into further
detail.
Alleged fracking links to the contamination of the
public water supply and critical aquifers, as well as ties to earthquake
upticks near drilling locations that are otherwise not prone to seismic
activity have created uproar in the years since the 2005 “
Cheney loophole,”
which allowed the industry to circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act by
exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a
source of cheap natural gas.
Now, it is apparent that the
fracking industry is also privvy to many secrets of the nuclear energy
industry, and specifically, where the bodies are buried, err… dangerous
nuclear waste is buried, rather — waste that atomic researchers have
otherwise found so difficult to eliminate.
Truthstream uncovered several published newspaper accounts from the
Spring of 1964 concerning a then-newly disclosed plan to dump nuclear
waste produced by the atomic energy industry into hydraulic fracturing
(fracking) wells using a cement slurry technique developed by
Halliburton & Co. The top two fracking companies in the nation at
the time were Halliburton and Dowell, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical.
And
here we thought fracking was a relatively new industrial phenomenon
growing in popularity over just the last couple of decades. Boy were we
wrong. Revealed within these articles is Halliburton’s long-standing
relationship with the secret government and deep ties between the oil
and nuclear industries.
Teaming up with the U.S. Government and
Union Carbide Corp., who operate nuclear materials divisions at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee, Halliburton was then credited
with “solving” the radioactive waste problem faced by America’s
secretive nuclear industry. Dumping waste via fracking had
apparently been going on since 1960, according to the reports, but was
only made public here in 1964.
Article Continues at
tapnewswire.com
