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At least 3.6 million barrels of fracking waste were sent to treatment plants that empty into rivers during the 12 months ending June 30, according to Pennsylvania State records. That is enough to cover a square mile with more than eight and a half inches of brine.
Out of the roughly 6 million barrels of well liquids produced in a 12-month period examined by the AP, the State couldn’t account for the disposal method of 1.28 million barrels, about a fifth of the total, because of a weakness in its reporting system and incomplete filings by some energy companies.
In 2009 and part of 2010, energy company Cabot Oil & Gas trucked more than 44,000 barrels of well wastewater into a creek that provides drinking water to 17 municipalities with more than 300,000 residents. Cabot acknowledged that it should not have happened.
