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Every day in north dakota, several dozen tons of these are produced by the drilling industry. it looks like a long net. its a filter. they call it a filter sock, its used to filter the wastewater from the tracking sites to capture the solids from the fracking. it includes salts, compounds and radioactive materials like radium. and because the filters catch all that solid stuff, the filters themselves end up being radioactive. because these things are radioactive, you need to take some care in th...

They dont know -- when the municipal land waste dump facilities turn them away and fine them $1,000 a filter sock, the health department told us recently, they dont know what happens to it after it leaves that dump. >> wow. well, were starting to see what happens to it. >> yeah, well, what we have is that yeah, is that they are -- they have two rows. the one role that trumps the other is promotion. promoting the oil industry. and the regulatory part of the state governments job has definitely ta...

Cant track it. they dont know -- when the municipal land waste dump facilities turn them away and fine them $1,000 a filter sock, the health department told us recently, they dont know what happens to it after it leaves that dump. >> wow. well, were starting to see what happens to it. >> yeah, well, what we have is that yeah, is that they are -- they have two rows. the one role that trumps the other is promotion. promoting the oil industry. and the regulatory part of the state governments job ha...

Produced by the drilling industry. it looks like a long net. its a filter. they call it a filter sock, its used to filter the wastewater from the tracking sites to capture the solids from the fracking. it includes salts, compounds and radioactive materials like radium. and because the filters catch all that solid stuff, the filters themselves end up being radioactive. because these things are radioactive, you need to take some care in throwing them away. no landfill in north dakota is supposed t...

Municipal land waste dump facilities turn them away and fine them $1,000 a filter sock, the health department told us recently, they dont know what happens to it after it leaves that dump. >> wow. well, were starting to see what happens to it. >> yeah, well, what we have is that yeah, is that they are -- they have two rows. the one role that trumps the other is promotion. promoting the oil industry. and the regulatory part of the state governments job has definitely taken a backseat. >> don morr...