SkyTruth Releases Fracking Chemical Database
| Voluntary industry disclosures of the chemicals used in fracking operations nationwide are now available in the SkyTruth Fracking Chemical Database. |
industry to FracFocus, for
gas and oil wells fracked between January 2011 and August 2012. The SkyTruth
Fracking Chemical Database is the first free public resource enabling research
and analysis of the chemicals used in fracking operations nationwide.
A few examples:
- Using this dataset we calculated the volume of water used for fracking across the United States, and compared that to the amount flowing over Niagara Falls and the area covered by Central Park.
- We looked at the ongoing, unpermitted use of diesel fuels in fracking, apparently in violation of the Safe Drinking Water act.
- Most recently, we examined disclosure rates in West Virginia and concluded that state and industry data were so incomplete that the disclosure of chemicals used in fracking ranged from only 0% to 31.6%.
Responding to public calls for greater transparency Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and five other states require disclosure via FracFocus. But with the limited tools
provided by FracFocus, data aggregation and analysis is impossible. Despite
these and other critical shortcomings, the White House has suggested FracFocus is a
suitable platform for public disclosure.
apply to drilling on millions of acres of public land, and may be on the verge of designating FracFocus as the public disclosure platform. But we think the data must be much more accessible, shareable, and useable for the public to be adequately informed about the types and amounts of chemicals used in fracking operations.
this SkyTruth action will make the task of research on the effects of fracking
much easier,” said Dr. Tony Ingraffea, professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Cornell University. “This large and ever-expanding dataset is
invaluable for cross-referencing with other datasets such as health and
environmental quality.”
Those interested in this resource are encouraged to contact SkyTruth for
more information on the data and to discuss research potential.
2012-11-14 11:04:55
Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2012/11/skytruth-releases-fracking-chemical.html
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