Group Claims Drill Cuttings for Grove City Landfill “Radioactive”

Here we go again with false allegations that drill cuttings from shale drillers are "radioactive." In 2020, Tri-County Landfill Inc. submitted a permit application for the construction and operation of a municipal waste landfill in Liberty and Pine Townships, in Mercer County, PA. Judging by the reaction, the landfill will accept drill cuttings from Marcellus drillers. Tri-County previously operated a landfill at that location between 1950 and 1990 (pre-shale era). The landfill has been inactive since 1990. The PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued a permit for the landfill to reopen in December 2020. The matter has been tied up with appeals since that time and has not yet reopened. The big, bad bogeyman being used to scare nearby residents is radioactivity.

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