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>Unsurprising. Over a decade ago I was searching for a dissertation topic and a self-reporting fracking site... it's unsurprising because in all human endeavor

• teachrdan 1y ago
  > Has nothing to do with fracking. I wish you had read OP's comment more carefully: > Further, not all the chemicals being leaked... were reported, as any that had trade secrets (at the time and to the best of my recollection) were excluded. The exact mix of chemicals used in fracking fluids is proprietary -- in all likelihood not because it's so valuable as a trade secret, but as an excuse not to report the presumably toxic / carcinogenic contents to the public. This is absolutely something specific to fracking.
  • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
    > in all likelihood not because it's so valuable as a trade secret, but as an excuse not to report the presumably toxic / carcinogenic contents to the public It’s both. The former ranges from performance to make management look like they have a secret sauce to actual chemical breakthroughs in surfactants.
  • DoctorOetker 1y ago
    They are not mutually exclusive: from the perspective of fracking companies, deceiving the public may itself be the trade secret?
  • fsckboy 1y ago
    "non shale drillers turn on each other as toxic waste..." would that headline surprise you? it has nothing to do with fracking. The news is that there is a fracking related toxic water issue, one entirely similar to what we are very familiar over a history of the handling of many toxic chemical industrial sites. It has nothing to do with turning on each other which is what the headline says is the news.