Microsoft Office Outlook - Memo Style - Montana Board of Oil and Gas
Microsoft Office Outlook - Memo Style - Montana Board of Oil and Gas
Microsoft Office Outlook - Memo Style - Montana Board of Oil and Gas
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Richmond, Tom<br />
From: Ann Harding [annmontana11@gmail.com]<br />
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:30 AM<br />
To: DNR FracComments<br />
Subject: Fracking chemical disclosure<br />
144 Daly Ave<br />
Hamilton, MT 59840<br />
<strong>Montana</strong> <strong>Board</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Oil</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Gas</strong> Conservation,<br />
I would like to add my voice to those requesting you implement rules requiring the listing<br />
<strong>and</strong> disclosure <strong>of</strong> the chemicals injected underground during the fracturing process in natural<br />
gas exploration.<br />
Many <strong>Montana</strong>ns strive to maintain a clean water resource, both above <strong>and</strong> below ground. We do<br />
not dispose <strong>of</strong> our used motor oil on the edge <strong>of</strong> the road anymore; many <strong>of</strong> us do not apply<br />
herbicides <strong>and</strong> pesticides on the ground for the same reasons. We save our old paints,<br />
solvents, medicines, computers, <strong>and</strong> cleaners for county‐sponsored safe disposal days so they<br />
will not end up in local l<strong>and</strong>fills where their toxicity could percolate to the groundwater.<br />
Considering the potential scale <strong>of</strong> pollution posed by the variety <strong>of</strong> unknown liquids being<br />
used in fracking is alarming.<br />
The degree <strong>of</strong> risk associated with this practice is over the top for logic, especially given<br />
the current state <strong>of</strong> awareness <strong>of</strong> pollutants. Why do we require scrubbers on coal‐powered<br />
power plants? Why are industrial manufacturers required to filter their effluent waters?<br />
Why are our organic wastes serviced by tertiary water treatment plants? COME ON ! To<br />
introduce voluminous quantities <strong>of</strong> unnamed liquids underground is contradictory to decades <strong>of</strong><br />
testing, analysis, laws, comprehension, <strong>and</strong> effort.<br />
The people who live on the surface <strong>of</strong> gas reservoir zones are entitled to at least know the<br />
agents which may infiltrate their water wells. This is a simple issue <strong>of</strong> protecting one's<br />
private property rights. Elevating a gas company's "trade secrets" above those <strong>of</strong><br />
individual <strong>Montana</strong>ns'<br />
rights is highly objectionable.<br />
I urge you to take the first obvious step to insuring that our state's ground waters are not<br />
irrevocably harmed, by requiring drillers to post the contents <strong>of</strong> their drilling mixes.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Ann Harding<br />
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