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June 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than
30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad
expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible dumping ground.
No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the
rivers or onto the soil. But until recently, scientists and
environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath
the earth would safely entomb the waste for millennia.
There are growing signs they were mistaken.
Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells
drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly
leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface
or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant
portion of the nation’s drinking water.
In 2010, contaminants from such a well bubbled up in a west Los Angeles
dog park. Within the past three years, similar fountains of oil and gas
drilling waste have appeared in Oklahoma and Louisiana.
In South
Florida, 20 of the nation’s most stringently regulated disposal wells
failed in the early 1990s, releasing partly treated sewage into aquifers
that may one day be needed to supply Miami’s drinking water.
Federal officials and many geologists insist that the risks posed by
all this dumping are minimal. Accidents are uncommon, they say, and
groundwater reserves – from which most Americans get their drinking
water – remain safe and far exceed any plausible threat posed by
injecting toxic chemicals into the ground.
But in interviews, several key experts acknowledged that the idea that
injection is safe rests on science that has not kept pace with reality,
and on oversight that doesn’t always work.
Some experts see the well failures and leaks discovered so far as signs
of broader problems, raising concerns about how much pollution may be
leaking out undetected. By the time the damage is discovered, they say,
it could be irreversible.
“Are we heading down a path we might regret in the future?” said
Anthony Ingraffea, a Cornell University engineering professor who has
been an outspoken critic of claims that wells don’t leak.
Highlights
“In 10 to 100 years we are going to find out that most of our
groundwater is polluted,” said Mario Salazar, an engineer who worked for
25 years as a technical expert with the EPA’s underground injection
program in Washington. “A lot of people are going to get sick, and a lot
of people may die.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has primary regulatory
authority over the nation’s injection wells, would not discuss specific
well failures identified by ProPublica or make staffers available for
interviews. The agency also declined to answer many questions in
writing, though it sent responses to several.
According to risk analyses cited in EPA documents, a significant well
leak that leads to water contamination is highly unlikely – on the order
of one in a million.
Once waste is underground, though, there are few
ways to track how far it goes, how quickly or where it winds up. There
is plenty of theory, but little data to prove the system works.
June 24, 2012 – Posted at BeforeIt’sNews
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