The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services says that tests which it had done show levels of radioactivity in Marcellus shale waste which are too high for disposal in regular Kentucky landfills. The tests were done at a West Virginia company which prepares waste from locations in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. That makes pinpointing the source of the radiation difficult for the rest of us.
The investigation is ongoing, apparently, as a lawyer for the Cabinet stopped Curt Pendergrass, the supervisor of the Cabinet’s radioactive materials branch, from continuing to talk on the subject.
It will be interesting to follow the radioactivity discussion in the future. Previously we were under the impression that the levels of radioactivity that came from the Marcellus shale were too low to affect anything. There’s a little chunk of Marcellus shale on a shelf here in our office.
