Gas poured from the well head at a rate estimated by the EPA of 100 million cubic feet per day for 20 days before crews were able to plug it it on March 7.Â
Why is the wastewater created during fracking for oil and natural gas—flowback—radioactive? And just where does that dirty, salty wastewater go? Watch the video -- It's fracking amazing.
It was one of the more dramatic moments of the past year's growing battle over gas infrastructure: The day Elise Gerhart climbed a tree on her family's property to protest the clearing of a right-a-way for a new natural gas pipeline.