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flying_wahini

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3. I went to a CC mtg 10 years ago about the oil companies there dumping fracking water into OLD wells.
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 02:49 PM
Aug 2024

This was in Conroe Texas. Lots of people in the area showed up to complain about it. These wells had either been abandoned or capped. (Like that mattered)
Don’t remember how many wells but several dozen.
There were oil company trucks from far away lined up everyday to dump in them. Every day for many many months. Maybe years (nobody was watching them).
We had FIVE children under in one neighborhood (The Woodlands) that had glioblastomas.
They came out and checked the water and said it passed. Nothing to see here, folks.
They didn’t do anything. Probably still dumping them there.
This was the Oil companies solution for getting rid of it.

Nothing has changed. WestTexas is right over the Oglala too.

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