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Jan 2020: No Chill

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Is There Radioactive Waste in Fracking?

CNN's John Sutter looks at a story on the radioactive brine from fracking. The salty waste product gushes out of America's oil and gas wells to the tune of nearly one trillion gallons a year, enough to flood Manhattan almost shin high every single day. At most wells, far more brine is produced than oil or gas as much as 10 times more. It collects in tanks and like an oil and gas garbage man, Peter picks it up and hauls it off to treatment plants or injection wells where it's disposed of by being shot back into the earth.

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