To: The Environment Agency

Stop companies like INEOS dumping wastewater from fracking into the sea

Tighten the rules relating to the disposal of the waste water produced by fracking.

Why is this important?

There are concerns that advanced treatment technologies may not be adequate to deal with the levels of dissolved solids in produced water, limiting the ability to treat it on site. A spokesperson from Greenpeace Science Unit states that releasing huge quantities of water loaded with large quantities of metals, radioactivity and chemical components into marine environments is a retrograde step. Campaigners have voiced concerns about the problems, such as earth tremors, caused by the actual fracking process but there has been less focus upon the problems caused by waste water.