Did I say this issue was heating up, or what? A series on the environmental risks of fracking has just begun in the Times; the first installment is here. It focuses on a less discussed issue than flammable tap water--so central to Gasland--although one wonders if a piece on that topic is still forthcoming from the Times. In any case, the current article is about wastewater from the fracking process, which apparently contains lots of radioactive material and is being sent to water treatment plants which (the piece claims) can't handle that material, or adequately remove it before it ends up in waterways. If what the Times says is true, this is the sort of expose that is going to cause an uproar. The central paragraphs from the piece:
With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens ...
