40 Acres and a Rule: Draft Federal Fracking Regs Cover Only
A Sliver of Land
by Lena Groeger ProPublica, May 8, 2012, 12:04 p.m.
[Excerpt] "Last week’s media
coverage of the Obama administration’s newly-proposed fracking rules focused so
heavily on how drilling companies would have to disclose the chemicals they use
that it largely overlooked the toughest provisions: Drillers would be required
to test the physical integrity of their wells, and more water would be
protected from drilling...
One major limitation: Although widely understood as
“national” guidelines, the draft rules would in fact only apply to a sliver of
the nation’s natural gas supply. That’s because they would apply to mineral
rights managed by the Bureau of Land Management, which means areas beneath most
BLM and tribal land, but scarcely any U.S. Forest Service, private or
state-owned lands – where most drilling occurs. Industry has criticized the
proposed rules as too restrictive…"
Majia Here: My last post on fracking noted that the proposed regulations only require drillers to reveal the chemicals they used in the fracking AFTER drilling!
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