The catch with the OSHA
standard is it only covers employees.
What if a patient is not an employee of a drilling corporation and has
been exposed to the chemicals?
The Superfund Act does require disclosure of chemicals. However, Section 327 Exemption of the Superfund Amendments And Reauthorization Act Of 1986 (SARA) states:
Except as provided in section 304, this title does not apply to the transportation, including the storage incident to such transportation, of any substance or chemical subject to the requirements of this title, including the transportation and distribution of natural gas.
How Much Does a Driller Really Know?
In Western Pennsylvania a family is trying to find out what chemicals contaminated their private water well. The driller in question is Range Resources. A judge ordered Range to provide the family's attorney with a list of chemicals. Range was unable to do so because the manufacturers of the chemicals would not release the information to Range.
Read:
A Motion for Contempt and for Sanctions in the Form of An Adverse Inference Docket No. 2011-149-R
Motion
to Compel Red Oak Production
What's at stake?
To review a few factors are involved:
The lack of a procedure or system for medical professionals to request the chemical composition of fracking fluids used at a well site
A Pennsylvania confidentiality agreement apparently doesn't exist
Pennsylvania DEP and other state departments don't know anything about this except that a medical professional must sign a confidentiality agreement that doesn't exist
Drillers do not know what chemicals they are using, so even if there were a system in place and a confidentiality agreement existed, the information a medical professional would receive would be incomplete or incorrect.
The inability of a medical professional to obtain the information in an accurate, complete and timely manner is compromising his/her ability to treat a patient effectively.
Ultimately, our health and possibly our lives are at stake.
2015 by Dory Hippauf
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