Hazardous waste from Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale boom is outgrowing the plants that treat it, official Neuquén data shows. Here is the hidden cost.
Energy · Argentina
Key Facts
—The surge. Hazardous waste from Neuquén’s oil industry rose more than thirty-five percent in a single year, official data shows.
—The volume. Treatment plants took in more than one million cubic metres of waste in a year, near their limit.
—The worst of it. The drill-rock waste known as cutting, the hardest to treat, jumped about sixty-six percent.
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