Halliburton Fracking Spill Mystery: What Chemicals Polluted an Ohio Waterway?

[Whoa_Nelly]

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This episode highlights a glaring gap in fracking safety standards. In Ohio, as in most other states, fracking companies are allowed to withhold some information about the chemical stew they pump into the ground to break up rocks and release trapped natural gas. The oil and gas industry and its allies at the American Legislative exchange Council (ALEC), a pro-business outfit that has played a major role in shaping fracking regulation, argue that the formulas are trade secrets that merit protection. But environmental groups say the lack of transparency makes it difficult to track fracking-related drinking water contamination and can hobble the government response to emergencies, such as the Halliburton spill in Ohio.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/halliburton-ohio-river-spill-fracking

[nykym]

1. the formulas are trade secrets that merit protection

Well OK but if a spill occurs then you have to disclose and clean it up.
the way it should be