Anyone want to guess where the wastewater will go if they start fracking in new Brunswick?
Within the past 15 years, the Marcellus Shale region (which includes areas in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Maryland, and Virginia) has seen a 540 percent increase in generated fracking waste. In 2014 alone, fracking in the United States produced more than 14 billion gallons of wastewater. Although the industry injects 98 percent of its wastewater into underground wells, science has yet to completely assess the practice’s potential impacts to surrounding communities—anything from traffic problems and noise pollution to groundwater contamination and earthquakes.
