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Re:Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste by dylan604 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:52PM (#22149136)
Have you ever looked at Google maps/Earth of Texas? Zoom out to a couple thousand feet, and look at all of the little white dots across the surface. Each one of those little dots is a fracking well. Seeing it from this view is quite shocking. Look at how close houses/schools/etc are next to these well sites.
Re:Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste by Nicholas_C on Saturday January 25, 2020 @06:23PM (#22149278)
Here’s an example of some I found the other day. Each one of those white dots is a well pad where they cleared the land for a drilling rig to work. If you look closely you can see surface pumps on many of them. Some have storage tanks as well. This entire region (the Permian Basin) is pockmarked like this.

(31.6643861, -103.0348924) Dropped pin Near Winkler County, TX https://goo.gl/maps/J2zi8VwD2QjKUpbk8

Re:Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste by OrgNet on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:10PM (#22149732)
holy shit, this is not even the worst spot... this one appears to be more dense: https://goo.gl/maps/9YZrP4of97tDgQmH6 .... I think I found out where they dump all those waste products: https://goo.gl/maps/ZkfDDKM26gfmtQTL6
Re:Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday January 26, 2020 @08:42AM (#22152017)
Interestingly the first thing to stand out in your first link is the Crane branch of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

This is all so...absurd...

(speechless)

Re:Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste by Boondox543 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:09PM (#22149926)
Re:Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste by jmkb on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:37PM (#22149834)
No way anyone in West Texas would bother driving all the way to Sabine... see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22149320
Re:Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste by hylaride on Saturday January 25, 2020 @07:52PM (#22149669)
Whoa. I zoomed out, then double whoa.