Massachusetts has a proposed pipeline that has been glorified in television commercials while lobbyists are stroking the egos on Beacon Hill.
Isn't it time to stop pretending that just because the INDUSTRY says '"It's clean," doesn't mean it's so?
If these companies aren't operating responsibly elsewhere, ya think they're gonna be responsible in Massachusetts?
"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 quickly turn fertile land into a dead zone. The leaked brine killed every sprig of grama and bluestem grasses and shinnery shrubs it touched."
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"An Associated Press analysis of data from leading oil- and gas-producing states found more than 180 million gallons of wastewater spilled from 2009 to 2014 in incidents involving ruptured pipes, overflowing storage tanks and other mishaps or even deliberate dumping. There were some 21,651 individual spills. And these numbers are incomplete because many releases go unreported."
WATCH: Rancher Carl Johnson speaks out against the
#frackingindustry, after a 420,000-gallon wastewater pipeline spill on his land left it "sterilized. There was no vegetation whatsoever."
CROSSROADS, N.M. (AP) — Carl Johnson and son Justin are third- and fourth-generation ranchers who for decades have battled oilfield companies that left a...
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