No wonder conservative/repuglican states and provinces have been so busy destroying education. Knowledge brings power to ordinary minds, which rapists (frac’ers, churches, and other industries) do not want us to have.
No wonder my lawyer Murray Klippenstein withheld my website from me for so long (even though I had paid for it in full) and ignored my correspondence trying to get it from him after he quit. Just another frac’er.
States with fracking disclosure rules have higher water quality: study by Zack Budryk, Feb 13, 2023, the Hill
Increasing transparency requirements around fracking activity and the specific fluids used in the process are associated with lower pollution levels from that activity, new research shows.
A recent study from the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute examined water quality in watersheds where fracking occurred.
Specifically, researchers analyzed salt concentration, a common indicator for fracking impact due to its associated health and development hazards.
They found consistent improvement on this benchmark in cases where the state imposed disclosure rules. In states with transparency rules, salt concentration fell by up to 17.8 percent. In contrast, their research found no comparable decline for pollutants not specifically associated with the fracking process.
Meanwhile, researchers also found that in states with mandatory disclosure rules, fracking firms’ use of chloride-related chemicals declined, and about 5 percent fewer new wells were drilled. They further found that other mechanisms of public pressure were also associated with lower salt concentrations.
For example, the greatest drop occurred in areas with more local newspapers and local environmental nongovernment organizations, as well as states with higher rates of Google searches for hydraulic fracturing.
The research also indicated water quality is better in regions where more fracking wells are owned by publicly traded companies.
“Transparency in this context worked remarkably well, leading one to believe that disclosure mandates for other industries and for other causes—from reducing harmful chemicals in products to reducing carbon emissions—could also be successful, and even more so when it leads to the public imposing pressure on firms,” co-author Giovanna Michelon, a professor at the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute for the Environment, said in a statement.
Researchers analyzed the impacts in 16 states: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
“This notion that targeted transparency can be used to influence corporate behavior has been around for a long, long time,” co-author Christian Leuz, the Charles F. Pohl distinguished service professor of accounting and finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, told The Hill. “But for the type of behavior where the impacts are much more widespread and not as easily visible or detectable, it wasn’t clear to us that targeted transparency was going to work.”
However, he said, the research suggests that “when public pressure was picking up on the transparency, as the analyses suggest when we look at things like Google Trends or media coverage, the pressure was essentially amplifying the effect of disclosure regulation, and that, in turn, seems to have been crucial for the impact of these disclosure mandates.”
A 2005 law bans the federal government from requiring disclosure of the composition of fracking fluids. 
So sick. Canada is just as sick with secrecy around toxic industries, notably frac’ers, oil and gas, and our judges.
However, 26 states issue disclosures through FracFocus, the Ground Water Protection Council’s national fracking chemical registry.
Only California required disclosure of all chemicals with no exception for trade secrets, with Colorado set to implement the same requirement in 2023.Not true! Last minute amendment keeps frac’ers happy with ability to claim trade secrets
Refer also to:
Even the known frac harms are kept secret by our agencies paid to protect us, our environment and public health:
Texas: 58,199 wells frac’d (some by Encana/Ovintiv) in 9 years with 6.1 billion lbs “trade secret” chemicals, nearly 100,000 lbs PFAS (extremely toxic at low levels) “forever” chemicals and precursors. How much in Canada? Hint: No one is looking.Keep in mind, those billions of pounds of trade secrets used were in just one state. Pity the children growing up with so much toxicity accumulating in their veins.
Colorado oil and gas regulator “took the unprecedented step of ordering an operator to switch from the carcinogenic (Gibson D822) drilling mud to a synthetic (Neoflo 4633) mud.”Regulators have the power to regulate, but in my view of the last few decades, they choose not to and instead choose to engage in fraud to cover-up crimes by frac’ers and bully and shame the harmed to try to shut us up. In Canada, our judges join in their cruel abuses to try to silence those willing to sacrifice everything to expose the rotten criminals.
2022: Colorado: After thousands harmed, Bill introduced for an Act on Oversight of *All* (not just some frac) Chemicals Used in Oil & Gas Production (to also disallow trade secrets). Will the oil & gas industry and the rich (judges included) allow this to pass? Of course not! The bill was sneakily amended to allow trade secrets.
2022 05 11: Colorado fracking disclosure bill changed to allow trade secrets
…But, in an amendment backed by the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, the state’s oil well regulator, fracking companies would still be able to guard formulations as proprietary trade secrets, as allowed under current law.
The combination of alphabetical disclosure but the preservation of trade secrets claims is a compromise that appeared likely to speed the bill to passage….
FROM THE AMENDED BILL, PG 3:
“If a manufacturer believes that any information that will be included on a chemical disclosure list is a trade secret, the manufacturer must file a trade secret claim with the commission. If the commission determines that the information covered by the trade secret claim constitutes a trade secret, the commission shall not include the information in any applicable chemical disclosure list.”
Caveman Canada, land of secrets, including kept by our regulators, govt’s and courts:
Environment Canada Keeping Nearly a Thousand Frac Chemicals Secret
It’s not just the intentionally toxic brews frac’ers inject (including into drinking water aquifers), it’s the toxic often radioactive wastes they produce, and in some jurisdictions, such as California, are legally allowed to inject into protected drinking water aquifers and in most jurisdictions in USA and Canada are allowed to spread on roads, use in pools, overload landfills, inject in poorly or not at all maintained and leaking injection wells etc., leading to surface and ground water contamination and harming public health.
California: Oil industry lobby group demands groundwater protections stripped
California authorizes oilfield waste dumping into drinking water aquifers
Frac’ers get billions in subsidies from us via gov’ts we pay. We get contaminated air, water and health, secrets & lies: The Big Lie Continues, former US Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar says: “We know that, from everything we’ve seen, there’s not a single case where hydraulic fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone”
Northest Territories fracking water license allows for company to keep ‘trade secrets’
Two-thirds of frack disclosures omit ‘secrets’
The Big Secret? Fracking Fluids
Potentially harmful fracking chemicals are considered secrets
Wyoming regulators keep 146 fracking chemicals secretEncana/Ovintiv frac’d into drinking water aquifers there, just like the company did in Alberta. Of course the regulators will keep frac chemicals secret.
Not just in North America: Results of controversial ‘fracking’ for shale gas in UK will be kept secret …