Radioactive Oil and Gas Wastewater Still Flows – The Energy Mix
Nearly 40 years after the American Petroleum Institute (API) warned
industry officials that oil and gas wastewater is “significantly”
radioactive, regulation remains non-existent, callously leaving largely
unaware industry workers and the broader public exposed to
life-threatening toxins.
industry officials that oil and gas wastewater is “significantly”
radioactive, regulation remains non-existent, callously leaving largely
unaware industry workers and the broader public exposed to
life-threatening toxins.
Not mincing words about its own industry, the API reported in 1982
that “almost all materials of interest and use to the petroleum industry
contain measurable quantities of radionuclides that reside finally in
process equipment, product streams, or waste.” The report (literally)
underscored that such “contamination can produce significant occupational exposure,” writes DeSmog Blog