An inside look at Plum’s controversial fracking wastewater injection well
The wastewater injection site in Plum run by Penneco Environmental Solutions has been the subject of nearly a decade of legal battles and community backlash as the company has sought to expand its operations along Old Leechburg Road.
Sidebar: Does it honor out nation’s flag to display it over a symbol of environmental ruin? Most of us are not proud of our reliance addiction to fossil fuels. We don’t think it’s remotely patriotic or civic-minded to permit these depredations.
Don’t these injection wells cause earthquakes? If they are injecting waste fluids under pressure, can’t the flow back into the water table and the aquifers, polluting the ground water? How do we really know that these injection wells are drilled deep enough? Aren’t they using abandoned oil and gas wells for injecting the fracking wastes? This seems like a cheap way of disposal for “dust control on roads and for coating roads in the winter for snow, “Freezing Rain,” sleet, and “Wintry-Mix. All they need to do is fill out a form from our PA DEP, the “Don’t Expect Protection Department,” for a fee, and voila, end of the waste disposal problem. Or they just dump it at land fills or at least the filters, setting off radiation detectors or just drive down the road in rural areas and open up the valves. Very cost effective to these profit addicted waste haulers, to the determent to our the environment, our farms and farmers who live and work there. Fracking is too expensive, too dangerous and totally unnecessary for our energy needs. It needs to be banned now, everywhere. Go to https://thesolutionsproject.org/ for plans for all 50 states of the US and 146 countries, on how to meet our energy needs with just solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal energy. Contrary to the lies of the profit addicted fossil fuel energy industry, we will not “starve and freeze in the dark,” nor “wreck our economy in the process.”