Wyoming officials worry that Interior Department rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land might unnecessarily duplicate existing state regulations. On Thursday, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell released the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's latest draft rules for fracking - pumping pressurized water mixed with sand and chemicals into oil and gas wells to break open surrounding rock. Wyoming in 2010 became the first state to require companies to disclose the chemicals they use in fracking. The BLM rules likewise would require companies to disclose the ingredients in the fracking chemicals they use. Renny MacKay, spokesman for Gov. Matt Mead, says Mead considers the BLM rules unnecessary but is looking them over. The Powder River Basin Resource Council says Wyoming's rules are stronger in some ways than what BLM proposes.
No comments:
Post a Comment