Pitzarella [of Range Resources} said the amount of waste was less than a pickup truck load.
Only a pick-up truck load of radioactive drilling sludge? Why that hardly counts!!!!
Yesterday I received a post from the NYRAD blog, which is monitoring and working toward keeping Marcellus Shale drilling for gas, out of NY state. The post reported that 2 containers of radioactive sludge from drilling in Washington Co (county south of Pittsburgh) had been rejected by a Waste Management landfill near there, because of higher radioactive readings.
The solution - send it to Wast Virginia! They'll take anything! Mr PinHole and I were disgusted by this.
A couple of weeks ago we read that the waste treatment plant supervisor in Wetzel Co, WV (north end of WV, just south of PA line) had complained that there was no way his plant could correctly process the toxic material it was receiving. Mr Pinhole was born in Wetzel Co. And sadly his relations still in the region have rolled over, and made poor decisions about WV being trashed by these new (and old) companies that have raped the land and the people.
Here is the report I received about radioactive waste from Washington Co going to West Virginia.
It seems that maybe, just maybe, the people in the WV DEP are starting to say "STOP!!" after the chemical water contamination in southern WV. Of course they know full well they have quite enough of their own radioactive waste.
Therefore this news from another source (Pittsburgh Post) was quite welcome, saying the WVa DEP had rejected the radioactive cannisters from coming to a Waste Management landfill in WVa.
So what community will be lucky enough to get this hot potato, and other ones like it?
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Don't you just love how Matt Pitzarella thought he could fool people by saying the volume of this radioactive material wasn't important? People in that region might have fallen for that (and some still do) 60 years ago - but not now. Glad some in PA and WVa are finally waking up.