Yesterday I received the results from Texas Railroad Commission’s investigation of the Hosed by Braden incident

An abbreviated version of the findings:

Braden claims they used the 3” polypipe/hose to pump unused “frac-water” from the Roberts Lease uphill to the lined pit adjacent to the Bailey lease in order to conserve “fresh water.” They claim the hose was cut at the creek to make picking it up easier.

The pit had a “skim of congealed oil” and “2,100 ppm chlorides.”

The creek was flowing and inspection revealed no drilling waste. The water tested at 100 ppm chlorides.

I called the inspector for clarification. He confirmed that the reason Braden gave for pumping water from the Roberts lease to the Bailey lease was to conserve “fresh water” for future use to fracture the Bailey lease.

Hummingbird asks some very good questions ... any interest in getting an investigative team together to help track these spills? - promoted by roxy

Wow!  A Siegel on Daily Kos got this before I did, so I'll just post his link, but we have two more TVA spills in the southeast, one on the Ocoee River in East Tennessee, which has caused a major fish kill, and the other at the Widows Creek TVA plant in Alabama.

Why is all this happening at once?  Is the infrastructure of the pools just past it's shelf life?

New Video by Applachian Voices of their adventures on the Emory River:

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Previous and (environmentally) related pieces listed below. -- GH

• TVA Tennessee Disaster: Much Worse than Imagined and Radioactive!
• 1300 Fly Coal Ash Dumps around the Country and More

(the first is also on dKos, here)

TXSharon recently did a piece related to a rather interesting hose she discovered, running from a drilling sludge collection pond and terminating in a creek on conservation land in DFW:

• The hose stretches from drilling waste, downhill to the creek

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Bumped and promoted. Originally posted 2009-01-07 15:51:45 -0500. -- GH

Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise County?

With great interest I’ve watched the drilling going on around me hoping that all would go well and the producer would take care and follow the rules, such as they are. For weeks, I noticed the black hose that meanders along the side of FM 730. It winds through culverts and under bridges to continue along the other side—so it appeared. Sunday, something told me to pull over and look under the bridge. The hose does not continue under the bridge to the other side as it appears. It ends in the creek that is part of the watershed for DFW.

Here is where the hose starts. That’s a sludge pit filled with drilling waste.

The New Gulf War Syndrome

US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are being exposed to toxic chemicals that pose serious health risks

Add the possible Depleted Uranium Poisoning to this mix, And...................??