MARTHA OIL FIELD IN MARTHA, KENTUCKY CAUSED BY ASLAND'S WRECKLESS
DRILLING PRACTICES. THEY BROUGHT NORM (NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIOACTIVE
MATERIALS) TO THE SURFACE WHILE TRYING TO RECOVER OIL.
The low-level radiation from the closed Martha oil field was
discovered in 1988, when some old pipes from Ashland Inc. tripped a
scrap yard’s radiation detectors.
high brine content because the Martha Oil Field is located just above
it.”Ashland Oil was operating this oil field, and they had a low-level
extraction procedure going on.
In the Martha Oil Field a lot of produced water was just
dumped into creeks. Remember what General Kern called Yatesville Lake:
Dead Sea II from all the brine.
The Martha Oil Field, located in Lawrence and Johnson Counties,
Kentucky, is comprised of three areas totalling over 50 square miles
(80.45 square kilometers).
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.
operations in its Martha Oil Field in eastern Kentucky. On September
15, 2006, the Kentucky Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Cantrell
v. Ashland Inc.
wells in the Martha oil field were injected with pressurized water to
force out crude, it contends the material poses only a minimal threat
to the public health and maintains the
gives 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.
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Cabinet indicate that there are, in the Martha oil field in Johnson
County, Kentucky, a significant number of land areas where oil
production-related wastes and wastewaters from oil/water separation
tanks, brine/sludge and
dozens of brine/sludge pits in the Martha oil field that were formerly
used for separation of oil and produced water (brine), and for
disposal of oil-related sludges and clays as well as other land
located in the Martha oil field to ascertain whether there are
elevated levels of cancers or other illness associated with excessive
radiation exposure.
contamination at Martha oil field, Lawrence and Johnson counties,
Kentucky, LAWRENCE, JOHNSON, EASTERN COAL
Faye, R.E. (investigator) and Blalock, M.E.