Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste
I used to do the soil lab testing for a guy that dealt with this waste in my state.  They did permitting and paid farmers to be able to spread it on their fields and tell them it is good for them and will make the soil more fertile.  It can be either the salt brine or the more hydrocarbon based stuff that was basically like tar being spread on the farmer’s pasture.  He himself wrote the laws that the state government just rubber-stamped. I felt like I was working for evil, polluting my own state, and quit as soon as I could.  Some real Grapes of Wrath type stuff.  The old farmers don’t have any money, so the money the oil company will pay to spread that garbage on their land seems like a good deal to them and they weren’t informed about the real dangers of what was being spread.<p>Side note, the owner of that company was a very rich man and also one of the unhappiest people I’ve ever met in my life.  It was a good lesson to learn at my young age then.