These concerns and the reactions are very understandable. However, with regard to the photos and the commentary at the original poster's site, it raises these questions:
Are those tanks strictly for water removal?
Are those tanks seeing double duty, sometimes as water withdrawal, sometimes for frac waste? I doubt it, but I don't know tanks.
Surely no one is stupid/crooked enough to haul frac waste container tanks there and park them? I ask that even though I am just as dubious about this business as anyone else.
If the orange containers are the only color tanks being used for frac waste on the one hand, and water removal on the other, it makes it very hard to monitor if illegal waste dumping is happening given all the activity that happens at that site (1 million gallons a day approved for removal). Some who are seeing these photos may think this is a drilling area.
I, perhaps naively, think it is unlikely that frac water is anywhere near that site. It is tempting to presume the worst and wonder if frac water is being dumped under the cover of the high water conditions where the dilution helps hide that. If you presume the best you could wonder if they took advantage of a high water event to draw water, which would be a good thing.
The above is a long way of saying I don't know, but the poster of the photos is to be supported for keeping an eye on things. However, to call for firings without answers to the questions outlined above is another example of people being scared, making worst case assumptions, lashing out first, asking questions later.
Good post though because it shows how hard it is to monitor what is going on and the opportunities for harm if the operators are unscrupulous.
