NewWest.Net: It’s because of Santa Fe County, kids.
‘Fracking’ Bill Gets Buried. SF County shut ‘em down (at least until oil/gas prices skyrocket), and fracking fluids are *not* nontoxic. I love this quote, repeated from industry reps: “… there’s never been a link between hydraulic fracturing fluids and human illnesses.” The writer should at the very least have mentioned the incident in Durango, where not only was a worker sickened and made seriously ill by the fluids, but also the nurse who treated him at the hospital. The fluids are exempted not because they’re nontoxic, but because they’re supposedly pumped far below the water tables, and don’t generally migrate upwards (government assessment, not mine). You could call the exemption “deemed nontoxic by stratification.”
A little less semantics, a lot more observation and regulation, if you please.
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