The Documents Chesapeake Energy Doesn’t Want You To See

The Documents Chesapeake Energy Doesn’t Want You To See August 11, 2011
The documents, obtained by NaturalGasWatch.org from the federal Environmental Protection Agency under a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request, show that the fluid Chesapeake used in operations at the well contained more than two dozen chemicals, including methanol, glutaraldehyde, formaldehyde, 2-butoxyethanol and hydrocloric acid. They also specify the amounts used and detail the role each substance played in the hydraulic fracturing process. … Chesapeaketried to block the documents’ release, claiming that both were protected from release under the FOIA rules because they constituted proprietary and confidential business information. Both documents are marked “confidential.”