The Intelligencer: Geologist discusses fracking in Pennsylvania

Release Date: January 4, 2011 This content is archived.

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An article in The Intelligencer and the Wheeling News-Register about briny wastewater left over from fracking that is going into water treatment plants that empty into Pennsylvania rivers reports Tracy Bank, assistant professor of geology, recently told a concerned group in Pittsburgh that "uranium is being mobilized by the fracking process."

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