TINY PERCENTAGE OR BIG PROBLEM? Fracturing natural gas wells requires hundreds of tons of chemical liquids Each site requires hundreds of tons of liquid additives

TINY PERCENTAGE OR BIG PROBLEM? Fracturing natural gas wells requires hundreds of tons of chemical liquids Each site requires hundreds of tons of liquid additives by Bob Downing, February 12, 2012, Beacon Journal
The chemical additives are used as iron-control agents, corrosion inhibitors, clay stabilizers, breakers, gelling agents, friction reducers, bactericides, scale inhibitors, pH adjusting agents, cross-linking agents, solvents and surfactants. “There’s no doubt that there are some nasty chemicals going into Ohio wells, and no one disputes that,” said Dr. Jeffrey C. Dick, chairman of the geology department at Youngstown State University…. “It takes an incredible amount of chemicals,” he said. It will take hundreds of truckloads of chemicals and water to frack each well, he said. “It’s a big, big operation.”