by Ellie Cabell | February 4, 2021 | COVID-19, Energy, Social Media
Covid-19 affected the world in ways we don’t often think about. One is energy usage. Globally, the energy market saw the largest reduction in consumption in 70 years. In the first quarter of 2020, demand for energy fell by 3.8% compared to 2019. Lockdowns are...
by Ellie Cabell | February 3, 2021 | Location, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media
Colorado is home to close to 60,000 active oil and gas wells. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, part of the Department of Natural Resources, is charged with regulating all oil and gas actions in the state, including produced water disposal. “The...
by Ellie Cabell | November 30, 2020 | Location, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Water
New Mexico is now requiring oil and gas operators to report a bit of information regarding water use. Companies will have to report how much water is used to complete a well. Between two and eight million gallons of water is used to frack a well. The New Mexico Bureau...
by Ellie Cabell | October 2, 2020 | Cancer, Industrial Pollution, Social Media
A nurdle is a small piece of plastic, about the size of a lentil, which is the building block from which plastic products are made. Masses of nurdles escape into the environment before they become part of a plastic product, causing nurdles to be a large portion of...
by Ellie Cabell | September 16, 2020 | Environment, Industrial Pollution, Industrial Wastewater, Social Media, Wastewater
“This disastrous rule will allow coal power plants to continue dumping toxic wastewater–filled with dangerous pollutants like lead, mercury, and arsenic–into the same waterways that our families drink from and play in,” said League of Conservation Voters...
