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white cloud

(2,567 posts) Sun Jun 9, 2013, 03:05 PM Jun 2013

In Texas, Abandoned Oil Equipment Spurs Pollution Fears

By the time the damage is apparent it way to late to do anything about the contamination.

http://www.texastribune.org/2013/06/09/texas-abandoned-oil-equipment-spurs-pollution-fear/?utm_source=texastribune.org&utm_medium=alerts&utm_campaign=News%20Alert:%20Subscriptions

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In Texas, Abandoned Oil Equipment Spurs Pollution Fears (Original Post) white cloud Jun 2013 OP

Not to mention naturally occurring radioactive materials which contaminate well strings mbperrin Jun 2013 #1

mbperrin

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1. Not to mention naturally occurring radioactive materials which contaminate well strings

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Sun Jun 9, 2013, 08:46 PM

Jun 2013

and which are often chopped up for fence posts and playground equipment.

But that radiation is nothing to worry about, eh?

I love the scofflaw operator's comments in the story - basically, he will do whatever a final court order that threatens jail tells him to do. Until then, nothing.

Need some jail time, but that won't happen.

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