by Deborah A. Deal, APR | November 12, 2020 | Drinking Water, Industrial Wastewater, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Wastewater
In the end of 2020, state regulators approved an energy company’s request to inject millions of gallons of oil and gas wastewater into a freshwater aquifer in central Wyoming!!! Whaaaaat? O&G wastewater (aka produced water) has heavy metals, organic hydrocarbons,...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | November 10, 2020 | Environment, Health, Industrial Pollution, Industrial Wastewater, IX Water, Social Media
written by Ellie Cabell Ammonia is a naturally occurring colorless gas. It is created within the human body and is used by the body to make proteins and other necessary molecules. It is also created in nature when plants, animals, and bodily wastes decay, as well as...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | October 28, 2020 | Environment, Industrial Wastewater, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Wastewater
Yet another spill of contaminated produced water! Husky Energy just announced that 900,000 litres of produced water spilled from one of its pipelines in northwestern Alberta. That’s a lot of toxic water on the loose! Produced water is a byproduct of oil &...
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...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | August 31, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Wastewater, IX Water, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Water
If you could help the states that are drying up get 876 billion gallons more of water, would you do it? All it would take is putting regulations in place that would allow the treatment and reuse of produced water for agriculture, or at the oil & gas well pad where...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | August 12, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Pollution, Industrial Wastewater, Industry, IX Water, Population, Social Media, Wastewater, Water
With 1.8 billion people suffering for lack of fresh, consumable water – water they can drink, bathe with, carry out domestic chores with, and water their crops – you would think the rest of us would be doing everything we can to clean, recycle, and reuse our...
