by Deborah A. Deal, APR | November 19, 2020 | Environment, Industrial Wastewater, IX Water, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Wastewater
What’s holding parched California back from treating and reusing its produced water (wastewater) from oil & gas drilling? The Bakersfield Californian reported recently that it’s money. John Cox reports that “treating oilfield produced water can be expensive, not...
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 11, 2020 | IX Water, O & G Produced Wastewater, Social Media, Wastewater, Water
New Mexico’s Oil Conservation Comission has agreed to set a hearing date for a proposed rule that would make spilling produced water illegal, reports the New Mexico Political Report. Produced water is the toxic waste water that comes up with oil or gas during...
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 Deborah A. Deal, APR | September 28, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Health, Social Media, Water
Looks like a harmless body of water, right? Maybe not. I hadn’t heard of this happening for years – not since I lived in Orlando when a couple of people died from the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri. Our parents always warned us not to dive into, or...
