Clean Water, Courtesy of the Feds
Texas Observer - There are at least 26 acknowledged chemicals in the waste, including such known carcinogens as benzene and one category unhelpfully listed as other. Yet the Railroad Commission doesn t classify oil and gas waste as hazardous. That means
Clean Water, Courtesy of the Feds
Fri, Jul 6, 2007
February 25th, 2008 at 10:18 am
The RRC does not classify oil & gas waste as hazardous..that
is very true. BUT if you go the RRC site and go to the training
pages, there is an incident that occurred a couple of years ago in which a truck carrying production waste caught fire and killed the drivers. The RRC itself advised that production waste was hazardous material, and needed to be treated as such.