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Paper: Disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses dangers to drivers

Paper: Disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses dangers to drivers
Paper: Disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses dangers to drivers

Champaign, Ill. – Environmental concerns about hydraulic fracturing – aka “fracking,” the process by which oil and gas are extracted from rock by injecting high-pressure mixtures of water and chemicals – are well documented, but according to a paper co-written by a University of Illinois environmental economics expert, the technique also poses a serious safety risk to local traffic.

New research from Yilan Xu (“E-Lan SHE”), a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, shows that the growing traffic burden in fracking boomtowns from trucks hauling wastewater to disposal sites resulted in a surge of road fatalities and severe accidents.

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