These Texas Fracking chemicals: no one seems to worry

SAN ANTONIO, TX, may 1, 2012 /24-7PressRelease / -it chalk to the oil boom.

As America seeks to produce more of its own energy, a dominant technology was created for the purpose to extract oil and gas from our existing parts, as Eagle Ford shale and Barnett Shale oil fields in Texas and the land owners and oil companies (and the workers of the oil and gas) are that there is money to do.

"Hydrofracking," abbreviation of fracturing hydraulic, is a process in which Drillers combine water, sand and chemicals to the breakdown of the layers of rock to hard shale, get these fossil fuels to the flow.

Matthew Tresaugue and John MacCormack report for the Houston Chronicle, an oil of approximately 6,000 and gas wells use fracking.

On 1 February, the State began to require energy companies to disclose the chemicals they use. So far, 4 200 companies have shown chemicals on FracFocus, a registry online well sites, and information available publicly hope to allay fears about the type of chemicals that could be detrimental to the environment and the local population.

But no one appears to have access to a complete list of ingredients; Indeed, the oil companies are not required to list every single thing that they use in their processes. In other words, companies are allowed to cite "trade secrets".

And the chemical, water and sand "cocktail" used in the fracking vary from well to well. Even scientists admit not knowing if a combination of chemicals may interact in a way that could lead to the contamination of ground water or other problems.

In fact, no one seems to worry. As the report Tresaugue and MacCormack, some landowners in the Eagle Ford shale seem not worried: "if they were using dangerous chemicals it would be a problem,"Jim Byrd, a diet County landowner, was cited saying.""But I do not know that they are. »

Source: Fracking chemicals disclosures triggered a few alarms

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