WASTE? NOT!

We know drilling for natural gas disturbs geological formations and creates pathways whereby chemicals can migrate into underground water supply. Once chemicals are underground, they will go with the flow to higher and lower formations due to gravity and a rising water table. That's just the way it is - and has been for a long time; though drilling into the North Texas Barnett Shale is causing a major overall increase of wells drilled by companies old and new.
Why has this chemical influx been allowed, then allowed to affect water? Supposedly diluted chemicals, that is toxic chemicals DILUTED in our entire water supply, are said to be okay in Texas! Levels of toxic chemicals like benzene and xylene are kept "low" and undetected (wink, nod-I fear)- and low is whatever a lab defines as such.
Personally, I don't trust labs unless they are absolutely independent of polluters and regulators who have special economic interests in an industry.
Then, above - ground wells leave us with muddy, chemical-laden "sludge"
that must be removed (siphoned, dug and hauled) from drilling sites and put "somewhere."
Where? Who would want its chemical, poisonous, smelly, oily self?
As far as I know, the destination of this gunk is undetermined by law.
It could be dumped in creeks or spread over farmland or pasture where cattle will eventually graze, chemicals seeping back underground.
Pollution-we try to dilute it, bury it, dump it, layer it, mix it with other solids, bag it for FERTILIZER (this has happened even with radioactive waste!) But, it never goes away-just resurrects in another hazardous incarnation.
Today is a perfect day for letting leaders, and those aspiring for office in Texas,
HEAR FROM US about regulation of drilling waste. If we don't demand a smart, effective plan utilizing the best existing technology, we will eat and drink this industrial garbage for the rest of our days.
Who in his right mind would be agree to be slowly poisoned? I don't want to find out, do you?