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A massive Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who helped spread the material is speaking out.

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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oil companies from Texas have polluted other states and just left their mess. https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup

I recently HAD to go to Texas for work, the drive through Lubbock was the most toxic air I have ever experienced. It was a mixture of petroleum chemicals and cow shit, it was fucking awful.

Texas is a mess.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

drive through Lubbock

Well, yes. Lubbock is as Lubbock was. It is known.

Texas is a mess.

This is also true.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I know the US is quickly becoming the shithole of the world but Texas is shitties of holes.

Those poor families probably have no idea about the nightmare they are living on top.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

This drilling waste is too thick to inject underground, as industry does with problematic liquid waste streams such as produced water and flowback. Instead, it is often disposed of in pits, placed into landfills, laid under county roads (“road-spreading”), or spread across farm fields.

Holy fuck, this is far past negligence and into pure evil.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

God that article made me queasy. As a Texan, I hope for a day when we'll have state leadship who is interested in protecting the people of Texas rather than lying and covering up to protect exploitative business leaders

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

could? please.... when corporations are involved, it's always unless proven otherwise... and not their 'proof'

[–] protist@mander.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago

It's a headline not based on the article for sure. There's no question about it existing

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 0 points 12 hours ago

There's almost nothing in that article beyond one bulldozer driver's self-diagnosis.