Study shows firms in Colorado, including Chevron, have pumped 30m lbs of chemicals in 18 months without meeting all disclosure rules
That’s in spite of first-in-the-nation rules requiring operators and their suppliers to list all chemicals used in drilling and extraction, while also banning any use of Pfas “forever chemicals” at oil and gas sites.
Since the transparency law took effect in July 2023, operators have fracked 1,114 sites across the state, but as of 1 May chemical disclosures have not been filed for 675 of them – more than 60% of the total, the analysis says.
Chevron, the world’s third-biggest fossil-fuel company by market cap, is by far the most serious offender, operating about 375, or more than half, of the non-compliant wells.
It is almost like these companies are polluters.
Disregard for the law? No fear of consequences? Gee, I wonder where they got such ideas.
The obstructionist known as the Democrats or the reptilikins known as the Republicans.
Nothing to see here. All is well.
Reminds me of that Dark Waters movie; they didn’t report chemicals because the phrasing was “report known chemical pollutants,” they didn’t know what chemicals they were polluting (it was a new compound nobody had seen before), so they didn’t report it.
If they wanted to fix this the penalty for not filing should be to have all the oil that site extracted seized and sold to the highest bidder. Profits from the sale to be set aside to cover the costs of the inevitable super fund site.
