Friday, May 4, 2012

Wastewater Disposal Is an Issue in Hydrofracking

New York Times: Vexed by declining revenue, officials of the Niagara Falls water utility seized on a new moneymaking idea last year: treat toxic waste from natural-gas drilling at its sewage-treatment plant once hydrofracking gets under way in New York State. Accepting the waste would both offset the drop in revenue and help keep water rates down for customers in the economically strapped region, they reasoned. But the thought of having fracking fluids trucked into the city, treated and discharged into the Niagara...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/nyregion/wastewater-is-an-issue-in-hydrofracking.html
Enclosure: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/05/04/nyregion/FRACK1/FRACK1-articleLarge-v2.jpg

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