As the Nova Scotia Department of Environment has issued an unlawful permit to AIS, to make the same mistakes made elsewhere, I have been forced to notify them of the evidence that they are advocating an illegal act. The following is a comment I left on their page, which I encourage everyone to get involved in: huffingtonpost/karl-grossman/fracking-and-radium_b_2096539.html The amount of info on this topic is quite endless, Im surprised that you havent seen this, and appropriately overturned the approval. Seems negligent to not be concerned, when any educated person in nova scotia knows there is plenty of radioactive minerals in our ground. Although there is a moratorium on radio minerals, we know they exist in abundance in the ground here. Exerpt from article: {Whites report, entitled Consideration of Radiation in Hazardous Waste Produced from Horizontal Hydrofracking, notes that radioactive materials and chemical wastes do not just go away when they are released into the environment. They remain active and potentially lethal, and can show up years later in unexpected places. They bio-accumulate in the food chain, eventually reaching humans. Under the fracking plan for New York State, there are insufficient precautions for monitoring potential pathways or to even know what is being released into the environment, it states.} The Department of Environmental Conservation has not proposed sufficient regulations for tracking radioactive waste from horizontal hydrofracking, it says. Neither New York State nor the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would permit a nuclear power plant to handle radioactive material in this manner.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 03:12:29 +0000