| inbluevt | Date: Friday, 2013/04/26, 9:01 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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A truck carrying drill cuttings from a hydraulic fracturing pad in the Marcellus Shale was rejected by a Pennsylvania landfill Friday after it
set off a radiation alarm, according to published reports. The truck was
emitting gamma radiation from radium 226 at almost ten times the level
permitted at the landfill.
The MAX Environmental Technologies truck was first quarantined at the landfill, which is operated by MAX, and then sent back to the fracking pad—Rice Energy‘s Thunder II pad in Greene County—to be redirected to a site that can accept higher levels of radiation.
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