{"id":115,"date":"2009-11-22T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-11-23T23:44:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T04:44:26","slug":"treatment-plant-for-gas-drilling-waste-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Treatment Plant for Waste Water from Gas Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Brian Bishop, THE DAILY REVIEW, November 18, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drilling in the Marcellus Shale not only produces natural gas, but millions of gallons of waste water that need to be dealt with.The drilling and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/special\/hydraulic-fracturing-national\" target=\"_blank\"> hydraulic fracturing<\/a> of a gas well requires between two and four million gallons of water, according to a U.S. Department of Energy report published this spring. Some of that water, along with ground water, returns to the surface as waste water. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyreview.com\/news\/treatment_plant_for_gas_drilling_waste_water_subject_of_athens_twp_hearing_tonight\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens Township in Pennsylvania is considering a permit for a 27-acre water treatment plant for a gas drilling company, but when it gets through talking about the radioactive, saline and heavy metal waste, the millions of gallons of water involved and the dangers of spills in heavy rains, the reader begins to wonder&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[27,24,10,25,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}