Cara eu detesto ter que ler sobre fraturamento hidráulico pra fazer esses trabalhos da escola. Aff.

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Salt Fork Winter Hike: Kennedy Stone House & The Weight of the Land

Salt Fork Winter Hike: Kennedy Stone House & The Weight of the Land

Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There.

Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There. | 11 Feb 2026

According to the nonprofit FracTracker — which shares maps, data, and analysis on the oil and gas industry — there were at least 21,000 oil and gas wells in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Most of them sit in and around residential neighborhoods. 

Each one of those underground wells produced between 1,000 and 2,000 tons of solid waste — sometimes as much as 3,000 or 4,000 tons as the decade wore on — laden with PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals”), radiation, and other toxic contaminants. 

In total, somewhere between 20 million and 60 million tons of hazardous waste were dumped in and around Dallas-Fort Worth — in the very hinterlands the city is now expanding into.

But the public has little idea where any of it went.

It could be in your mother’s backyard, or, in the case of this story, under the playground at your child’s school.

Near a square of concrete in the midst of the field in Johnson County, where waste trucks used to drop off, Oldham held a small black box at ground level to track the radioactive particles pinging through the topsoil: a telltale sign of the presence of fracking waste, which is commonly disposed of by being spread on soil.

A hundred yards away stood a low-slung building with a roof like a ski ramp: Pleasant View Elementary School. The school, which serves nearly 500 students from Pre-Kindergarten to 5th grade, is part of Silo Mills, a 2,500-home “fresh, new residential community” that opened in 2023, offering residents an affordable slice of country living, just half an hour from downtown Fort Worth. About two-thirds of students at Pleasant View are considered economically disadvantaged.

📌El Gobierno de Ayuso está privatizando la gestión de hospitales públicos bajo un falso criterio de eficacia y eficiencia
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when you’re supposed to be writing a draft about a community inequity in one of your classes (i chose fracking) and the more you research it the more you find out all the shit that will occur if the government decides to lift the ban, and all the people they didnt inform of this decision, and all the health and environment effects, AND ALL THE PREVIOUS ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS THEY LITERALLY HID FROM THE PUBLIC, and all of a sudden your writing starts sounding like a sneak diss and the reynolds pamphlet had a baby while you try in jam in as much info as u can bc its just too funny (also the person in charge isnt even fucking close to being qualified LMFAO):

Toxic secrets buried in Ohio: Lawsuit exposes how fracking waste threatens drinking water

A new environmental lawsuit puts a spotlight on what critics describe as Ohio’s dangerous love affair with fracking, highlighting how the state’s permissive regulations have allowed toxic waste to be stored in injection wells without adequate safeguards for drinking water.

The Buckeye Environmental Network has filed suit against the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) over two injection wells near Marietta in the southeast part of the state where fracking waste is stored. The lawsuit says Ohio approved the wells using outdated, less stringent rules despite newer standards being in place for years.

“It’s so frightening how many of these injection wells we have in Ohio, they’re just time bombs waiting for the earth to move a little bit for this stuff to migrate,” said Chris Quinn on Today in Ohio Thursday. “I can’t believe how much we’ve ransomed the future to get some natural gas out of the ground.”

At issue are rules adopted in 2022 that require permit applicants to search within a two-mile radius for any wells or pathways that could carry toxic waste back to the surface or into water supplies. Previous standards only required checking within a half-mile radius—a dramatic difference.

Courtney Astolfi explained the significance: “Within that larger radius, there’s more than 300 oil, gas and water wells within that area. But if you just use that half mile radius that used to be in place years ago, there are fewer than 20. So, the picture changes dramatically.”

The state argues that old rules should apply because the application process began before the new standards were adopted in 2022. But environmental advocates insist that safety standards should reflect current scientific understanding, not be grandfathered in under outdated rules.

Adding to the controversy is the secrecy legislators have enshrined into the law about what’s actually in the wells.

“To this day, you cannot find out what toxic substances are in the liquid that they’re injecting into the ground in Ohio. That’s secret,” Quinn noted. “So in the future, when the stuff migrates, the people dealing with it aren’t even going to know what it is.”

The lawsuit highlights the dangerous substances potentially stored in these wells, which sit within two miles of Marietta’s drinking water system and along the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers.

“We’re talking not just fracking fluid,” Astolfi explained. “We’re not just talking waste that contains potentially heavy metals and radioactive material in some cases. We’re also talking about PFAS, those forever plastic chemicals that we know are concerning.”

The situation exemplifies Ohio’s historically permissive approach to fracking under former Governor John Kasich’s administration.

“John Kasich just welcomed this. There was no thought,” Quinn said.

For residents of Marietta and communities downstream along the Ohio River, the lawsuit represents a critical test of whether the state will prioritize long-term environmental and public health concerns over the short-term economic benefits of fracking.

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The reason #19002351 why western Greens are traitors and/or useful idiots.

You care about environment. Do you:

[ ] allow for fracking in a jurisdiction you can regulate to ensure the least possible pollution from the process

[X] ban all fracking from your jurisdiction to ensure it can only rely on third world dictatorships that don’t give a crap about your environmental policies

The inherent lie in promising jobs in trickle down eugenics.

People keep describing eugenics when they talk about what politicians have been doing with society and why, but nobody names it because you get attacked if you say it, but we need to get past that.

It’s probably because there’s a lot of money behind the curtain keeping it closed and a lot of money interested in thwarting not just people who pull back the curtain, but anyone who might pull back the curtain.

Peter Greene:

Curmudgucation - School Choice Isn’t Uber. It’s LulaRoe. From September 2021 - PETER GREENE SEP 14, 2023 They believe the marketplace is God’s own way of sorting out the deserving from the undeserving. Their own wealth and success are a result of their superior awesomeness, not the luck of timing and circumstance. And if you are poor, that is a reflection of your unworthiness, your moral failings, your character flaws, and trying to boost you out of that is to go against the laws of nature. The implication underlying all this? Not everyone can succeed, and not everyone should. This is not an idea that translates well to public education, but it is a foundational belief about how the world works, and their ideas about the freedom to rise or fall on your merits echo those of fellow multi-level millionaires, Dick and Betsy DeVos (in fairness, Betsy’s money also comes from the manufacture of auto parts).

George Monbiot:

Letters and Politics 07.16.25 - 10:00am George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism George Monbiot’s description of neoliberalism: Politics has no legitimate role in making the key decisions about our lives. That instead should be left to economics. And decisionmaking should take place through the process of buying and selling and that will create or discover a kind of natural hierarchy. That the righteous people who will be at the top of society, we’ll know who they are, because they’re the ones with the money, and the unrighteous people will be cast down, they’ll be the ones without the money. And anything which interferes in the discovery of this rather Calvinist natural order which they claim exists, anything which interferes with that, such as taxation, such as regulation, such as trade unions, such as protesters, such as politics itself, let alone the alone of creation of public services and a social safety net, an economic safety net, welfare state, any of those things is illegitimate because it interferes with the discovery of this so-called natural order, and ensures that the wrong people come out on top.

Brian Beutler:

Brian Beutler ‪@brianbeutler.bsky.social‬ July 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Jamelle Bouie:

jamelle ‪@jamellebouie.net‬ July 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

I remember years ago I saw a question on one of those question and answer websites and somebody asked something like how do you know if someone deserves their wealth, and someone literally answered with something like that whoever has amassed a lot of money has proven that they deserve it by getting a lot of money. And I thought it was odd at the time because nobody seemed to be commenting that this would necessarily legitimize bank robbers, burglars, and all manner of crimes.

Of course all this is preposterous because eugenics is not a science, it’s a pseudoscience ideology built on an accelerationist fantasy that leverages cognitive biases with apocalyptic hopium, post hoc justifications, and generally helping lucky and bad people hold their moral world their world together with the cheeks of their asses. And that’s how truly despicable lure in ordinary random people who aren’t thinking things through, to convince them into buying in on at least parts of this diabolical project.

The true reality is that eugenics is a might-makes-right immoral mentality, conjured up by criminal minds to defend unethical and offensive acts that disrupt society and harm their own communities.

And Trickle Down Economics isn’t just a discredited economics theory that doesn’t work as promised. It’s a ruse to paper over the eugenics scheme. Because you can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that the rich and corporations can’t be regulated because the poor are just getting what they deserve AND claim that the rich and corporations will in fact take care of the poor and working class via jobs and privatized whatevers. The math just doesn’t add up there. It’s a fake out.

I’ve been pointing this out for years about the so-called job creators and their twisted ideology, but George Monbiot described it perhaps better than I could: “Either the system you’ve created is going to enrich people who you believe do not deserve to receive any rewards, or it’s going to keep those people poor, but what they’ve tried to persuade us is that it can do both things at once.”

Letters and Politics 07.16.25 - 10:00am George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism Mitch Jeserich: Is there a logic, obviously I know you think it’s a flawed logic, but is there a logic within this idea of liberty for the wealthy and something to the essence of you let the resources go through these individuals that have the means to be able to then redistribute them in jobs and projects and society and that’s one of the ways you keep capital flowing and benefiting society as a whole. George Monbiot: So yeah this is what they call trickle down theory that if you let the rich get very rich, some of that money will trickle down and enrich the rest of society. And this leads to a fundamental contradiction within neoliberalism which says that there shouldn’t be redistribution and that those at the bottom deserve to be at the bottom they deserve to be poor and those at the top deserve to hold onto their wealth. So you can’t have it both ways. Either the system you’ve created is going to enrich people who you believe do not deserve to receive any rewards, or it’s going to keep those people poor, but what they’ve tried to persuade us is that it can do both things at once.

And of course this comes back to tech tycoons and their data center power plant plans, and why they’re of course in league with authoritarian politics. Because it’s the same project.

Considering Trump’s AI Plan and the Future It Portends - 24th July 2025 • The Tech Policy Press Podcast • Tech Policy Press Maia Woluchen: “The weight of the conversations being had, and was had in Pittsburgh is that these are spoils that are going to fall on everybody. Isn’t it a great thing that we have, we’re going to bringing this opportunity for innovation, and everybody is going to have a job in that space, whether it’s in electricity, or in HVAC that we need for the data centers. But that is faulty framing that is still really premising everybody in that space as a worker as a contributor, but not somebody who’s actually receiving the benefits of this broader innovation sector, or is not the head of a multinational tech company that’s going to be reaping the benefits in terms of millions of dollars, billions of dollars over time. So we are really concerned about the narratives that are really taking root in a lot of these places that are enabling some these really pernicious tax deals, enabling some of this stuff to happen out of the public eye, and how this is kind of sweeping up so many of these localities into this broader idea that, ok it’s an exciting idea to be part of this innovation sector, knowing that these are just really kind of thin on their face ideas.”

Even beyond the eugenics and how we know you can’t have it both ways with trickle down both supposedly redistributing but saying redistribution is wrong. There’s also the fact that we’ve already been down this road before. With fracking. And call centers. And if you just learned CNC machining. Or if you just get a CNA cert. Over the decades I’ve heard this over and over and over again. The spoils. The boom will come. And yeah the boom comes, for some people, and then the bust is a burden on the rest of us, most of us. Some trucking company owners make out, and the roads get hammered and taxpayers are on the hook while fracking companies get tax breaks in Pennsylvania. Some nursing home flipper makes a bundle, while seniors wind up screwed. On and on with the examples of the bait and switch, over and over.

https://chloehumbert.substack.com/p/christmas-movie-propaganda

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Truckers and Environmentalists Unite Against Fracking

Excerpt from this story from The American Prospect:

Beneath the Ohio River Valley’s earth lie rich deposits of fossil fuels like oil and natural gas that energy companies are eager to extract and sell for massive profits. Within just ten or so years of moving onto her homestead, Hunkler said, oil companies had started constructing well pads, which form the base for fracking operations, all around her town. Suddenly, she said, there were 78 well pads within a few miles of her home, a compressor station a mile away, and a pipeline just a few hundred yards from her door.

These pads are slabs of concrete built to mount the drills that force sand, water, and a soup of chemicals down into the shale, forcing it to crack apart and release its gas and oil. The pads, jarring patches of industrial gray gouged out of the landscape, also hold cars, tankers, wastewater reservoirs, and piles of unused equipment.

Hunkler says her initial wariness about the wells popping up in her region quickly developed into full-blown opposition when she learned that they could cause earthquakes and release volatile organic compounds into the air, which are heavier than air and settle into the lowest areas—like her hollow.

She began educating herself on the environmental and health risks of fracking and passed that information to her community. She formalized her work with the foundation of Ohio Valley Allies, and built power with another local group who know firsthand the dangers of fracking: truckers. As she continued organizing, Hunkler reconnected with her former high school classmates, many of whom worked hauling all kinds of fracking waste products, including drilling muds, settled solids, pipe scale, and hydrocarbon-bearing soil. Though she hadn’t seen them for 20 or 30 years, they began contacting her when they saw her work. The alliance between environmentalists and truckers might surprise some, but workers who want to protect themselves and the environment say it makes perfect sense to build power together.

“The trucking and the fracking industry are looking to continue to destroy Mother Earth as much as the coal industry and the hardrock mining industry,” said Billy Randel, a retired trucker and the head of Truckers Movement for Justice. “And you know what the funny thing is, the truck drivers can stop all this. We’re the key. We’re the 75 percent and our brothers and sisters on the rails are the other 25 percent. All we gotta do is educate our drivers.”

On June 4, Ohio Valley Allies was one of the signatories of a letter to the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that asked the government to enforce its hazardous material regulations. If the government enforces these laws, advocates say, it will help protect the truckers who transport the dangerous by-products of fracking: sludge, brine water, and silica-rich sand.

According to Earthjustice, which wrote the letter on behalf of Ohio Valley Allies and Truckers Movement for Justice, oil and gas companies consistently fail to correctly label hazardous material loads. Truckers agree, saying they typically receive no training for moving toxic waste, though trucking companies are eager to blame them if anything goes wrong. The effect is deadly and the examples are numerous, dating back decades.

“Esto me está matando”: los camioneros que transportan veneno sin saberlo - Ecoactivismo.com |

La industria del fracking sigue trasladando residuos sin clasificar. Años después, aparecen nódulos, EPOC y silencios que enferman. La historia se repite como en la minería.

Nuevo México prohíbe la descarga de aguas residuales tratadas de petróleo y gas - Reporte ambiental | Greenpeace Argentina, Chile, Colombia

La Comisión de Calidad de Agua frenó los vertidos de agua tratada con tóxicos del fracking. Se prioriza la salud pública.

Fracking-Powered Crypto Mine in Pennsylvania Shuts Down Without Word to Regulators

“A 2022 report by the Ohio River Valley Institute argued Diversified Energy was operating with “a business model built to fail Appalachia” because it relied on obtaining aging wells from other operators and squeezing the value out of them before the end of their useful lives, all without having “enough funds to plug its entire inventory of assets.”

In doing so, Diversified has acquired the largest portfolio of low-producing wells in Appalachia, which the Institute researchers wrote could become a “wave of soon-to-be-orphaned wells that could be offloaded onto the public.”

In recent months there have been new doubts raised about the company’s commitment to well-plugging. In December, Diversified reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by West Virginia landowners who argued the company had abandoned wells on their properties; it agreed to plug nearly 3,000 wells across Appalachia by 2034. Within the first two weeks of January, the Department of Environmental Protection slapped Diversified with 11 notices of violation for abandoning shale gas wells in Pennsylvania.

Boettner said the state should do more to penalize the practice of abandoning wells. Without strong enforcement, he said, “We’re going to end up left with all of these wells to plug. There’s nothing stopping them.”

Meanwhile, even as it is walking away from well pads, Diversified is expanding its offerings. Just days after inspectors visited Longhorn A, Diversified announced a large-scale partnership with fuel cell company FuelCell Energy and energy infrastructure company TESIAC to power a growing industry of off-grid data centers using natural gas from fracking wells and coal mines. It’s one of many natural gas companies throwing its weight behind the coming AI boom, threatening to prolong the life of polluting industries.

But the Longhorn A well abandonments raise questions about the company’s ability to care for such projects at the end of their lives, as a broader data boom raises concerns among environmentalists about air pollution. The company has also applied for state grants for well-plugging elsewhere in Pennsylvania, according to records Capital & Main obtained under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law.

Diversified CEO Rusty Hutson Jr. bought his first set of oil and gas wells in 2001 as a personal investment, taking out a home equity loan to afford a package of 35 wells that his father, a third-generation oil and gas worker, found in a deal, he said in a 2023 interview with Mountaineer Media.

“We’d go out in cold, heat, fix leaks, work on wells together,” Hutson said. “And I did that for two or three years before we started really growing the company.”

As it has added new wells to its portfolio, Diversified has written into its balance sheets lower-than-industry-standard asset retirement obligations — or estimates for the cost of plugging and closing off wells at the end of their lives.

The strategy has alarmed environmentalists, who fear the company is, at best, giving a lifeline to wells in need of decommissioning and, at worst, creating a massive taxpayer liability should it go under.

But Hutson is proud of his firm’s unique strategy. While most oil and gas companies focus on drilling new assets, Diversified keeps its eyes on their leftovers.

“Our game is acquiring existing mature production, operating it more efficiently than everyone else would, driving costs down, enhancing production on wells that hadn’t been given much time, or attention, or capital, driving margins and then paying dividends to our shareholders,” he told Mountaineer Media.

The company was listed only on the London Stock Exchange until December 2023, when it went public in the U.S. on the New York Stock Exchange.

That same day, House Democrats opened a probe into the firm’s practices and emissions.

“Diversified Energy is responsible for remediating a substantial share of the country’s aging oil and gas wells, but we are concerned that your company may be vastly underestimating well cleanup costs,” members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce wrote in a letter to Hutson. The company responded at the time, saying its business model is based on “stewardship” that includes “delivering well retirement and reclamation efforts.”

Boettner estimates that all but a small fraction of the vast trove of old wells Diversified has acquired in recent years are “totally uneconomical,” and one of his reports found that more than half could, by some definitions, be classified as “inactive.” In 2022, the company offloaded a set of 2,500 of them in Ohio. In January 2024, the company sold another part of its stake in Appalachia.

“They’re able to squeeze out this money in these assets because of economies of scale,” Boettner said. “The only thing they can do is keep buying wells, and as long as they don’t have to be accountable for those liabilities, it works.”

U.S. Drillers Say Peak Shale Has Arrived. (Wall Street Journal)

Excerpt from this Wall Street Journal story:

President Trump, who promised to uplift oil and gas, is set to preside over a decline in shale production. 

Drillers that made the U.S. the world’s top oil producer say they are hitting the brakes to weather a period of low crude prices and that the gusher has likely peaked. Some of the largest producers, including Diamondback Energy, recently told investors that they would be spending less this year and plan to drop rigs.

The U.S. is on track to see crude oil production modestly increase in 2025—in part because of growth in fields offshore—before declining next year by 1% to 13.33 million barrels a day, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. That would mark the first year-on-year decrease in roughly a decade, outside the Covid-19 pandemic. 

“We believe we are at a tipping point for U.S. oil production at current commodity prices,” Travis Stice, chief executive of Permian driller Diamondback, said in a letter to shareholders last week. 

Trump had promised that his administration would bring a new dawn for America’s frackers by killing regulations and allowing them to build new pipelines. But even before he took office, U.S. oil production was on track to flatten out and fall by the end of the decade.

Now, the upheaval in the global economy induced by his tariffs, coupled with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies’ decision to pump more oil, have likely compressed that timeline, crude-oil CEOs say. The disruption has been most notable in the Permian Basin, the country’s biggest oil field. 

Oil prices have fallen to $62.49 a barrel, down about 13% since Trump’s early April tariff blitz. That price is roughly equivalent to about $45 in 2015 dollars—below the average price that sent the oil industry into a painful downturn that year.

Court Orders Trump’s EPA to Reconsider Approval of Unlimited Fracking Air Pollution in Colorado

Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:

A federal appeals court ruled against Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency today, determining that the agency illegally approved a Colorado rule that allows the oil and gas industry to release unlimited amounts of air pollution from drilling and hydraulic fracturing without a permit.

“Despite the Front Range’s chronic and severe smog problem, Trump’s EPA and Colorado continue to hand the oil and gas industry free passes to pollute,” said Ryan Maher, a Center for Biological Diversity attorney involved in the case. “The court has checked Trump’s rubberstamping of yet another devastating pollution exemption.”

Today’s decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit responded to a January 2023 Center lawsuit challenging the EPA’s approval of a new permitting loophole Colorado created to ignore air pollution from drilling and fracking of oil and gas wells.

The decision requires Trump’s EPA to reconsider its approval, which the court determined was not justified. The court ruled that “the EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to address the potential emissions during drilling, fracking, and well completion.”

The Clean Air Act authorizes states to create rules about permitting sources of air pollution but requires the EPA to review and approve the rules to ensure that they adequately limit harmful emissions.

The Denver Metro/North Front Range area has levels of ozone, commonly known as smog, well above the EPA’s science-based standards set to protect public health and Colorado’s natural splendor. Colorado added the loophole into its rules, which are supposed to bring air quality into compliance with the standards.

Public pushes back against government bill that would lift N.S. ban on uranium mining, fracking | CBC News

There was nothing lazy about a former government’s decision to ban fracking in Nova Scotia, MLAs heard on Monday.

Multiple presenters to the legislature’s committee on public bills said the Houston government’s plan to lift the ban on uranium exploration and mining and the moratorium on fracking for onshore gas, as proposed in the omnibus legislation Bill 6, should not happen without robust public consultation — if it happens at all.

For several months, Premier Tim Houston has said blanket bans on resource development are the result of lazy government policy and pressure exerted by special interest groups that, to date, neither the premier nor anyone from his government has been willing to identify.

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Derrick Z. Jackson: President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Lee Zeldin was full of pablum in his January Senate confirmation hearing to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to “defer to the research of the scientists” on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. In even more laudatory language, he said he would “defer to the talented…

Derrick Z. Jackson: President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections