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Monday, April 2, 2012

Fracking disclosures create mostly shrugs

from PrairiePundit 

Fracking disclosures create mostly shrugs: Houston Chronicle:

Energy companies have disclosed some of the chemicals pumped into the ground to extract oil and gas at more than 1,700 locations across Texas in the first two months since the state began requiring the site-specific information. 
Yet the early returns have brought a collective shrug in the Eagle Ford play in South Texas, where almost every oil and gas well is hydraulically fractured – or fracked – with  [...]
Water and sand are the key ingredients  in most fracking operations and that has not changed over the last 50 years.  Disclosure is probably a good thing.  It makes it harder for the anti energy left to scare people about the process.

Agreed.  The anti-frackers use mystery to their advantage.

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