Drillers and those who supply the chemicals they use are secretive about the magic sauce they inject to open the fissures and free the gas. Spotlight PA in Harrisburg and WHYY in Philadelphia are investigating reports that those chemicals may include toxic PFAS.
Nothing that fracking companies do improves the quality of air and water, or the health of Pennsylvanians, NOTHING!
Fracking is not in the public interest, it produces economic benefits to companies that buy political influence and corrupt the legislative process.
FRACK CHECK
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allowed oil and gas companies to use toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in their fracking wells despite warnings from government scientists, new reporting finds.
Records obtained by the nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility found PFAS were approved for fracking in 2011, despite grave concerns about the risk to human health.
Read more at Spotlight PA