If the fluid is that safe, why do fracking companies still lobbly to make sure the fracking fluid ingredients remain secret? They have so far been successful in blocking any legal requirement for requiring such disclosure.
David Burg President, WildMetro On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Michael Halpern <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://blog.ucsusa.org/pennsylvania-high-school-to-host-bizarre-swim-meet-in-fracking-fluid/ > > In what one concerned parent is calling "outrageous," the Pennsylvania > Department of Environment is allowing two eastern Pennsylvania high schools > to stage a bizarre boys swim meet this coming Friday-in a swimming pool > filled with fracking fluid. > > The event is being held to demonstrate the safety of the fluid, a > byproduct of the oil and gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, > otherwise known as fracking. Some politicians have pulled similar > scientifically questionable stunts to reassure the public that fracking > fluid is benign. Governor John Hickenlooper (D-CO), for example, went so > far as to drink a glass of the fluid < > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/gov-john-hickenlooper-drank-fracking-fluid-hydraulic-fracturing_n_2674453.html> > in 2012. > <snip> > > -Michael > > Michael Halpern > Center for Science and Democracy > Union of Concerned Scientists > > Follow me on Twitter @MichaelUCS<https://twitter.com/michaelucs> > Read my most recent blog posts<blog.ucsusa.org/author/michael-halpern> > Call me at 202.331.5452 >
