Energy board opens up about chemicals used in fracking process by Trish Audette, Edmonton Journal, February 24, 2012
Currently, companies who inject mixes of water, sand, friction reducers and other chemicals into well sites as part of the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process of breaking up rock to free gas and oil have to report those chemicals to Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board. But the board, while keeping the data on-hand, does not have to make it public. … “Regulators (have been) a little behind the curve on the shift to unconventional gas, and the public concerns that have accompanied that, whether it’s concerns about water contamination, concerns about fracking more generally.”