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Welcome to Portage County, the Fracking Waste Disposal Capital of Ohio

2013-07-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: Welcome to Portage County, Ohio, the biggest dumping ground for fracking waste in a state that is fast becoming the go-to destination for the byproducts of America's latest energy boom. As frackingpumping a briny solution of water, lubricants, anti-bacterial agents, and a cocktail of other chemicals into underground shale formations at high pressure to fracture the rock and extract trapped natural gashas expanded in the Midwest, so has the need for disposing of used fracking fluid. That fracking...

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