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Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Investigation: Clorox Selling Pool Salt Made From Fracking Wastewater
by Joshua B. Pribanic for Public Herald | Edited by Melissa A. Troutman
February 11, 2019 | Updated February 12, 2019 | Project: Smoking Gun, newsCOUP
You might be shocked to learn that a Clorox product used to treat swimming pools came from fracking wastewater.
Public Herald has discovered that Eureka Resources, a company based in Pennsylvania, has been treating wastewater from shale gas development — a.k.a. “fracking” — and packaging the crystal byproduct as “Clorox Pool Salt” for distribution since 2017.
Jerel Bogdan, Vice President of Engineering at Eureka Resources, in an interview with Public Herald, stated Eureka’s patented system is “the only one in Pennsylvania that has proven and demonstrated to the DEP that our technology can generate dewasted water. To our knowledge there is no one else in North America who’s able to do that with oil and gas brines.”
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