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New Contaminants Found In Oil And Gas Wastewater

2015-01-21 01:35:06| oilandgasonline Home Page

Duke University scientists have discovered high levels of two potentially hazardous contaminants, ammonium and iodide, in wastewater being discharged or spilled into streams and rivers from oil and gas operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

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High Levels Dangerous Chemicals Found Air Near Oil & Gas Sites

2014-10-30 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Dirk DeTurck had a years-old rash that wouldn't go away, his wife's hair came out in chunks, and anytime they lingered outside their house for more than an hour, splitting headaches set in. They were certain the cause was simply breathing the air in Greenbrier, Arkansas, the rural community to which they'd retired a decade ago. They blamed the gas wells around them. But state officials didn't investigate. So DeTurck leapt at the chance to help with research that posed a pressing question: What's...

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Drilling for Oil and Gas Found to Have Contaminated the Amazon

2014-06-14 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Softpedia: Chiefly because of climate change and global warming, environmentalists do not hold the oil and gas industry very close at heart. Courtesy of a new study, greenheads are likely to criticize this industry even more than they have until now. Long story short, media reports say that, during this year's Goldschmidt geochemistry conference, it has been announced that drilling activities need be blamed for the fact that part of the Amazon is now contaminated. Thus, environmental chemist Antoni Rosell-Melé...

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