{"id":67668,"date":"2024-04-27T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67668"},"modified":"2024-04-27T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T20:02:31","slug":"big-oils-dangerous-radioactive-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67668","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil\u2019s Dangerous Radioactive Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Big Oil\u2019s Dangerous Radioactive Secret<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DeSmog writer Justin Nobel\u2019s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry\u2019s hidden contaminated waste.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Left, Petroleum 238 cover. Credit: Sabrina Bedford, design; Julie Dermansky, photo. Right, author Justin Nobel. Credit: Karen LeBlanc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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In Paris, France, there are fine caf\u00e9s and famous landmarks. But what nobody really knows is at the other end of a building known as Le V, on the northeast side of the city, is a portal that leads to a\u00a0secret pile of fracking waste from the woods of West Virginia<\/a>. A lot more comes to the surface at an oil and gas well than just the oil and gas, including billions of pounds of waste every day across the U.S., much of it toxic and radioactive. My journey into this topic started when an Ohio community organizer told me someone made a liquid deicer out of radioactive oilfield waste for home driveways and patios, which was supposedly \u201cSafe for Pets\u201d and had been selling at Lowe\u2019s. As you will see, this indeed was the case. Unraveling how that came to be turned into a\u00a020-month Rolling Stone magazine investigation<\/a>, which won an award with the National Association of Science Writers, and an\u00a0entire set of shocking DeSmog investigations<\/a>. And, eventually, it all became this book,\u00a0Petroleum 238: Big Oil\u2019s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 available\u00a0here on Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0here on Bookshop<\/a>, or it can be ordered at any local bookstore.<\/p>\n

It almost doesn\u2019t seem real, and you might deny it. But really all that has happened here is a powerful industry has spread harms across the land, its people, and more so than anyone, their very own workers, and did what they could to make sure no one ever put all the pieces together. And no one ever has…<\/p>\n

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Big Oil\u2019s Dangerous Radioactive Secret DeSmog writer Justin Nobel\u2019s new book explores how workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry\u2019s hidden contaminated waste. Left, Petroleum 238 cover. Credit: Sabrina Bedford, design; Julie Dermansky, photo. Right, author Justin Nobel. Credit: Karen LeBlanc. In Paris, France, there are fine caf\u00e9s and famous landmarks. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2688,26617,588,5617,8292,1215],"class_list":["post-67668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-big-oil","tag-justin-nobel","tag-oil","tag-pollutants","tag-radioactivity","tag-toxins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67669,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67668\/revisions\/67669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}