This week’s blog post subject was actually suggested to me by my Mother. She mentioned that she had heard something concerning radioactive elements found in Fracking wastewater, and how that was causing another water quality concern. So, I began investigating. The following set of articles are what I have found thus far.
I’ll start off with an initial article, published on April 7, 2013 by Tina CASEY:
https://1.rp-api.com/rjs/repost-article.js?3Ohio River Barges Open Up A New Can Of Worms For Fracking (via Clean Technica)
Upon perusing this article, I followed up with second article on the subject of TENORMS by Ms. CASEY, dated on December 19, 2012:
Prehistoric Flowback Adds Fresh Trouble to Fracking Woes (Tina CASEY, Cleantechnica.com, 2012)
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/19/u-penn-study-reveals-new-fracking-water-contamination-threat/
Finally, I located the research article from the University of Pennsylvania discussed in the aforementioned articles, which was published in Applied Geochemistry in January 2013:
Geochemical Evaluation of Flowback Brine from Marcellus Gas Wells in Pennsylvania, USA (HALUSZCZAK et al., 2013)
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/19447910/616730310/name/117395586-Fracking-Flowback-Brine.pdf
N. B.: Free article access for a limited time, being made available as a part of a “Sample Issue Online” on the ELSEVIER Publishers’ website:
Applied Geochemistry, January 2013; Volume 28, pp. 55 – 61
C. Mei-Ling HAMILTON - Environmental Geochemistry Issues 