does that create some pressure and potentially some more scrutiny if this stuff is harmful. what you are seeing here. citizen outcry. that, par family case is unbelievable. the pars are in gas land. lisa par had fracking chemicals in her lungs from being surrounded by 21 wells around her property. there are, you know, 15 million americans right now. that live within one mile of a fracking well. the issue is so hot. this, drilling industry expanded through out america. people don t want to live near this. unsafe to live near this. an outcry of citizens. the question is how is the government actually going to react. and they are asleep at the wheel right now. right. we didn t have time to got to the mayor, you found, moved out of his own town. from the fracking. josh fox, thank you for being here. thank you for having me. next, moral monday protests are back and republicans are doing everything they can to make it more difficult on the protesters including passing a controversial
scrutiny if this stuff is harmful. what you are seeing here. citizen outcry. that, par family case is unbelievable. the pars are in gas land. lisa par had fracking chemicals in her lungs from being surrounded by 21 wells around her property. there are, you know, 15 million americans right now. that live within one mile of a fracking well. the issue is so hot. this, drilling industry expanded through out america. people don t want to live near this. unsafe to live near this. an outcry of citizens. the question is how is the government actually going to react. and they are asleep at the wheel right now. right. we didn t have time to got to the mayor, you found, moved out of his own town. from the fracking. josh fox, thank you for being here. thank you for having me. next, moral monday protests are back and republicans are doing everything they can to make it more difficult on the protesters including passing a controversial new rule,iam barb. when does your work end?
of the job of regulation to the states, fracking is already becoming a big issue in governor races in states like pennsylvania and colorado. as russell gold wrote in his book, the boom, fed by a steady diet of fresh capital investors, the drilling industry proceeded with abandon, not caution. the growth of fracking took everyone by surprise. the energy industry wasn t prepared and neither with land owners and government officials. joining me now, russell gold, author of the boom: how fracking united the american revolution and changed the world. thanks so much for coming on the program. wonderful book. i ve read a fair amount of it. you say fracking has made the united states the envy of the world. there s no question about it. inexpensive electricity prices,
every day in north dakota, several dozen tons of these are produced by the drilling industry. it looks like a long net. it s a filter. they call it a filter sock, it s used to filter the wastewater from the tracking sites to capture the solids from the fracking. it includes salts, compounds and radioactive materials like radium. and because the filters catch all that solid stuff, the filters themselves end up being radioactive. because these things are radioactive, you need to take some care in throwing them away. no landfill in north dakota is supposed to take a piece of waste that clocks in over 5 picocurries. shale reporter said last summer, one of them came in at 374
council. mr. morrison, it s nice to see you again, despite the circumstances. thanks for being here. thanks for having me, rachel. good to see you. how common are discoveries like this? not necessarily just the filters specifically, but stuff being disposed of improperly from the drilling industry that poses a threat to public health in your state? well, they re becoming more common. we re finding out more and more all the time. and there s 75 tons of oil waste generated in north dakota every day. about a third of that is radioactive. and most of that is being dumped illegally in north dakota. why aren t regulations and oversight, even of something as extreme as radioactive waste, why aren t regulations and oversight in the state keeping