Our natural gas boom is an appropriate response to becoming energy independent from Middle East oil but fracking has a nasty byproduct: waste-water so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.
This liquid waste disposal is NOT treated to be sure of it's environmental safety.
This liquid waste needs to be treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful before being injecting it into our earth or releasing it into our rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water.
This is an area for government regulation to be sure the “General Welfare” of these United States requires is protected from unfettered capitalism by ensuring effluent released from fracking is safe for humans and our environment.
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