Chesapeake uses surgical anesthetic for fracturing.
Preparing for Council to convert Westridge into a gas production workplace requiring OSHA regulations to protect the people who live in the workplace, I researched Chesapeake Common Uses Main Compounds in the Fracturing Fluid.
Google: OSHA+ethylene glycol? Press enter
A medical doctor uses ethylene glycol for surgery as a general gas inhalant anesthetic. Also used as local anesthetic. Chesapeake uses ethylene glycol as a scale inhibitor. It works by removing oxygen and people lose consciousness. Glycol is refined out for surgery, but gycol is a double alcohol which also removes oxygen. Scale is killed by removing oxygen. This is empirical evidence that ethylene glycol removes oxygen from open air which makes people feel bad, hard to breathe, sleepy, asthma. Long term exposure kills by slow asphyxiation. Fracturing is open to the air and the odor can cover a large area. (Been there, done it with Chesapeake Nov 2009.)
Combined some of the ingredients the same way OSHA+ingredient+ingredient? Press enter. Remarkable intensity of chemicals that are open to the air combined with uranium from the rocks! (And our background pollution includes New Mexico past atomic energy stuff blowing in from the west. Guest polluter.)
In an attempt to explain Common Use of Ingredients, Chesapeake has confused residential use with industrial use. Residential use is in small amounts and low concentrations like a pinch of salt or a ¼ cup of laundry bleach. Industrial amounts are highly concentrated requiring protective clothing and are used in large amounts like 55gallon drums, l00 lbs., ( 150,000 gallons of additives - Star Telegram.)
Rule of thumb water supply.
For every 25 gas wells drilled and fractured 2 times using 3 million gallons of drinking water each time, a 2 day water supply for Fort Worth will be lost based on FW Water Dept figures of 108 million gallons average daily supply. For the 3,000 wells permitted by FW, 128 days of water supply will be lost. Roughly 1/3 of a year. (FW Water Dept reports 108.5 million gallons average daily sewer supply if you figure exact math. Same numbers in Star Telegram reporting water. They are prepared to pump up to 166 mil gallons a day, as needed.)
Rule of thumb for safety from Kirk Claunch, atty, who wins benzene exposure based on DNA reports.
If you smell it, you are in danger.
Low-dose long-time exposure causes cancer.
High-dose short-time exposure causes cancer.
Continuous monitoring.
Gas Mask Photo by Shannon Bruns
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