Secaucus bans ‘fracking’, Local officials also call for statewide and national ban

Secaucus bans ‘fracking’, Local officials also call for statewide and national ban by Adriana Rambay Fernández, July 15, 2012, Hudson Reporter
The mayor and Town Council banned fracking and fracking waste water in Secaucus at the June 26 council meeting in a resolution that states that the drilling process causes environmental hazards. … The resolution also outlines the municipality’s support for the bill under review by Gov. Christie to prohibit the treatment, disposal, or storage of fracking wastewater in New Jersey. According to the resolution, wastewater, wastewater solids, sludge, drill cuttings, and other byproducts from the fracking process are known to contain toxic levels of contaminants, including unknown quantities of undisclosed chemical additives used in hydraulic fracturing fluid, as well as contaminants from sources underground; benzene, naphthalene, formaldehyde, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, total dissolved solids, and radioactive materials, such as radium.

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