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Drilling boom brings rising number of harmful waste spills

2015-09-08 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Carl Johnson and son Justin are third- and fourth-generation ranchers who for decades have battled oilfield companies that left a patchwork of barren earth where the men graze cattle in the high plains of New Mexico. Blunt and profane, they stroll across a 1 1/2-acre patch of sandy soil lifeless, save for a scattering of stunted weeds. Five years ago, a broken pipe soaked the land with as much as 420,000 gallons of oilfield wastewater a salty and potentially toxic drilling byproduct that can...

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