Posted on 04/17/2011 6:24:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oil and gas companies injected hundreds of millions of gallons of hazardous or carcinogenic chemicals into wells in more than 13 states from 2005 to 2009, according to an investigation by Congressional Democrats.
The chemicals were used by companies during a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, which involves the high-pressure injection of a mixture of water, sand and chemical additives into rock formations deep underground. The process, which is being used to tap into large reserves of natural gas around the country, opens fissures in the rock to stimulate the release of oil and gas.
Hydrofracking has attracted increased scrutiny from lawmakers and environmentalists in part because of fears that the chemicals used during the process can contaminate underground sources of drinking water.
“Questions about the safety of hydraulic fracturing persist, which are compounded by the secrecy surrounding the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluids,” said the report, which was written by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California, Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Diana DeGette of Colorado.
The report, released late Saturday, also faulted companies for at times “injecting fluids containing chemicals that they themselves cannot identify.”
The inquiry over hydrofracking, which was initiated by the House Energy and Commerce Committee when Mr. Waxman led it last year, also found that 14 of the nation’s most active hydraulic fracturing companies used 866 million gallons of hydraulic fracturing products — not including water. More than 650 of these products contained chemicals that are known or possible human carcinogens, regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, or are listed as hazardous air pollutants, the report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Just another communist front attempting to shut down America using the Cloward Piven communist plan. History has taught us that there is only ONE WAY to deal with communists that works... the death of the communist.
LLS
milwguy;
you have the facts
greens will use all the fearmongering they can to push us back into the stone age.
The Utica find is under NY and is huge. Are they playing Tony Soprano here and want a big "taste"...Pigs, this is all about control and paying the vig so you can drill. Yes I am cynical. Think about it, especially "Up State" with some of the worse poverty rates and all the young kids leaving. Gee an industry with an exportable commodity ( to other NE states to get off of Saudi and ME oil) and they will screw it up... Damn shame...
Doesn’t hydraulic fracturing, by definition, involve the deadly chemical dihydrogen monoxide? Thank God we have vigilant public servants like Ed Markey and Hank Waxman!
Economic development in the Northeast? We can’t have that now, can we?
If there is no environmental or health threat from Fracking; the EPA will invent one. That's what they do. That's all they do.
So they inject methanol and the like into fields containing methane, ethane, propane, crude oil, etc.
Are people trying to claim a crude oil field was their water supply.
Interesting uses from some of the chemicals the EPA does not like but are included in the fracking process (from the Halliburton site):
Shaving Gel, Facial Cleanser, Shampoo, Car Wash Detergent, Hand Cleaner, Laundry Cleaner, Cat Litter, Plumber’s Putty, Oil Stain Remover, Anti-caking (or sticking) agent for food , Fruit Juices and Nectars, Household Multipurpose Cleaner, Laboratory Hand Cleaner, Laundry Stain Remover, Antimicrobial Soap, Toothpaste, Lipstick, Herbal Supplements, Fruit Jelly, Beer and Malt Beverages, Mustard, Laundry Liquid Detergent, Dishwasher Detergent, Tape Head Cleaner, Hops Extract used for Beer, Air Freshener, Anti-Wrinkle Treatment, Some Baking Soda, Whey Products, Yogurt, Surface Cleaner, Car Wax, Salad Dressing, Frozen Fish Sticks, Infant Formula, Saline Eye Spray, Natural Skin Cleanser, Food Grade Salt, Aquarium Fish Medication, Ice Melting Product, Furniture Oil, Thickened Stripper for Grease, Paint, Ink, and Gum Removal, Commercial Bathroom Disinfectant Cleaner.
No, it’s not just you. The watermelon times are a bunch of lying anti-Americans.
Dihydrogen-monoxide even caused the deadly tsunami in Japan...
Everyone who has ever ingested dihydrogen-monoxide is either dying or in the process of dying but Halliburton injects it into impermeable rock formations thousands of feet below kindergartners, Sunday-school teachers, and puppies. Everyone should write their representatives, the EPA and President Obama and insist that they pass a law to ban the use of such a dangerous chemical.
LOL, I am reading an old SF book, "When Worlds Collide" (the 1930s _book_, not the 195os movie!), Chapter 3 begins in all seriousness:
" IT was no tabloid but the Times —the staid, accurate, ultra-responsible New York Times —which spread the sensation before him in the morning." The grey old lady is clearly in her dotage.
Good One!
There was a time when even the New York Times would limit itself to reporting only claims made by authoritative sources, but those times are long gone...
Fracking is vile
If they wish to play with locked in methane there is plenty of it in the sea.
Fresh water table ought to be free of playing with.
You could make a fortune, that is, if you knew the formula and the method of injection.
That's all coing to come out in court now. Industrial espionage by environmental activism...
Attempts to use reason, facts, logic, or critical thinking skills when dealing with the New York Times, or any legislator with a (D) beside their name, or your average ecotard will ultimately be fruitless.
Good try, though...
If Waxman and Markey are involved, it is, by logical extension,....a lie.
“the deadly chemical dihydrogen monoxide?”
You mean H2O?
snicker, snicker......
Penn. don’t need no stenkin revenue, Ill. don’t need no stenkin revenue, Calif. don’t need no stenkin revenue, I assumed everyone knew that.
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