Fracking Hazards Obscured in Failure to Disclose Wells By Benjamin Haas, Jim Polson, Phil Kuntz and Ben Elgin - Aug 14, 2012 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-14/fracking-hazards-obscured-in-failure-to-disclose-wells.html
[Excerpted] Seeking to quell environmental concerns about the chemicals it shoots
underground to extract oil and natural gas, Apache
Corp. (APA) told shareholders in April that it disclosed information about
“all the company’s U.S. hydraulic fracturing jobs” on a website last year.
Actually, Apache’s transparency was shot through with cracks. In Texas and Oklahoma,
the company reported chemicals it used on only about half its fracked wells via
FracFocus.org, a voluntary website that oil and gas companies
helped design amid calls for mandatory disclosure.
Energy companies failed to list more than two out of every five fracked wells
in eight U.S. states from April 11, 2011, when FracFocus began operating,
through the end of last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The gaps
reveal shortcomings in the voluntary approach to transparency on the site, which
has received funding from oil and gas trade groups and $1.5 million from the
U.S. Department of Energy....
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