Normandeau ment!

Normandeau ment ou du moins elle joue tellement sur le sens des mots qu'elle induit en erreur la population.

«Dans le domaine du gaz, les gens se demandent si on cause préjudice aux nappes phréatiqueslorsqu'on fait un forage. La réponse est non. Est-ce que les substances auxquelles on a recours pour forer sont polluantes? La réponse est non»

Curieux, une recherche sommaire sur le très sérieux site Propublica, qui suit ce dossier de très près, révèle que la méthode de la «fracturation hydrique» utilisée pour soutirer les fameux gaz se sert d'un cocktail composé de produits chimiques «dont la recette est secrète».

Precise details about the nature and cause of the contamination, as well as the extent of the plume running in the aquifer beneath this region 150 miles east of Jackson Hole, have been difficult for scientists to collect. That’s in part because the identity of the chemicals used by the gas industry for drilling and fracturing are protected as trade secrets, and because the EPA, based on an exemption passed under the 2005 Energy Policy Act, does not have authority to investigate the fracturing process under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Using the Superfund program gave the agency extra authority to investigate the Pavillion reports, including the right to subpoena the secret information if it needs to. It also unlocked funding to pay for the research.

SOURCE : Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - August 25, 2009 1:36 pm EDT

The process, which forces highly pressurized water, sand and chemicals into rock to release the gas and oil locked inside, gives drillers unprecedented access to deeply buried gas deposits and vastly increases the country's known energy reserves. But as ProPublica has detailed in more than 60 articles, the process comes with risks. The fluids used in hydraulic fracturing are laced with chemicals -- some of which are known carcinogens. And because the process is exempt from most federal oversight, it is overseen by state agencies that are spread thin and have widely varying regulations.
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Two of the largest companies involved in natural gas drilling have acknowledged pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel-based fluids into the ground in the process of hydraulic fracturing , raising further concerns that existing state and federal regulations don't adequately protect drinking water from drilling.

SOURCE : Sabrina Shankman and Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica - February 19, 2010 11:33 am EDT



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