Radioactive Oil FIeld

Something is BAD wrong when Radiation Safety Officer Wade Smith takes us on a tour of the Martha Oil Fields in eastern Kentucky, land that has been dangerously contaminated with radium 226 because of Ashland Oil's oil exploration in the area. Includes a fly-over of the KY EPA approved dump site... official selection of 2010 atlanta film festival, twin cities film festival, louisville international festival of films, new jersey film festival, kahbang film festival, american conservation film festival and more

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[toxicsouptv]

@tjorvenxD0o01ste The video was shot in Kentucky in the United States.

[NZGameReviewer]

how the hell did it get that contaminated??

[toxicsouptv]

@NZGameReviewer it got that contaminated because Ashland Oil overpressurized the water that they injected into the earth to bring the oil out faster ("water flooding"). the water pressure was too high and fractured / ruptured the earth's plates. there is still oil down there but it is contaminated and useless now.

[MyMIXmedia]

They are deadmen.

No different to radioactive levels like in chenobryl.

[toxicsouptv]

@MyMIXmedia exactly. which is why the KY Supreme Court's decision to refuse to award property damages to the people in Martha, KY is so baffling. they ruled that because radiation is invisible it somehow doesn't constitute actual physical harm to properties. the "logic" there baffles the mind.

[1236bigcat]

Thanks for upload. I was born in there. My ancestors settled in 1820's as pioneers. Ever since discovery of rich coal beds used for industrial revolution, the people "inbred hillbilly rednecks" have been dehumanized, beautiful mtns treated like a 3rd world nation to be exploited, plundered, destroyed. See movie Matewan.

Family left when I was 5. I became a charter capt on the FL Gulf. The nation's set to fall because they've stabbed our bountiful ocean.

Rads to concentrate up the food chain.

[toxicsouptv]

@1236bigcat amen, brother. "matewan" is a classic. this BP disaster is going to have serious repercussions for decades to come.

[modgemtb]

it's where the kfc chickens are bread!

[PhotoNika]

@toxicsouptv that is SO totally their speed - people of Kentucky deserve so so much more than that.

[92RTG]

omg 1000mR/h ? That's very high radiation, in pripat its about 3-10uSv/h

[HWGuyEG]

@toxicsouptv

It's very logical, the US is corrupt on all levels.

[NZGameReviewer]

@toxicsouptv ah ok, thanks - did they rupture a vein of heavy metal to get it contaminated?

[tjorvenxD0o01ste]

in wich country is that ?

[TheZepmeister]

What made that area so hot? Was it something natural that they dug up?