Waste Pit News Today

Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by...

Today. look at that right up there at the top. ross oil pit shut down. company ordered to stop using oil pit over towns drinking water. north dakota officials gave an oil company there the go-ahead to start dumping all their excess drilling material into a football field-sized waste pit on their drilling property. a waste pit that just happened to sit on top of one local towns water supply. whats the big deal? when residents there started to raise a fuss about it, officials finally ordered the c...

On their drilling property. a waste pit that just happened to sit on top of one local towns water supply. whats the big deal? when residents there started to raise a fuss about it, officials finally ordered the company to stop dumping there. the local resident who raised the concerns about it in the first place told the paper, quote, its a little frustrating, because we are not being protected by the people who are supposed to be protecting us. the state official, whos at least nominally in char...

Experiment in watching the adaptability of governance. but the way that north dakota has adapted has also, sometimes, been alarming. this was the front page of the bismarck tribune newspaper today. look at that right up there at the top. ross oil pit shut down. company ordered to stop using oil pit over towns drinking water. north dakota officials gave an oil company there the go-ahead to start dumping all their excess drilling material into a football field-sized waste pit on their drilling pro...

Of the water recovered, and the rest becoming waste. take a look. >> waste water gushes up and gets stored for eventual disposal. all should be good, until trouble finds a way in. a tear finds the way into the lining of the waste pit. poisonous vapors find the way into your lungs, and cancer-causing chemicals find the way into your glass. >> now, proponents of fracking note that the economic benefits that it provides in the form of jobs, along with evidence that hydraulic fracturing has contribu...