液压破裂法Fracking介绍.pptx

Natural gas and fracking;Natural Gas;;Formation;Shale Rock;What is Fracking?;Extraction;Problems;Use/Contamination of Water;Contamination of Water;Deregulation;“States provide an exemption to the disclosure requirements for information deemed to be a proprietary ‘trade secret.’ A trade secret is a formula or other information about a product that gives a company a competitive advantage in the marketplace, such as the secret formula for Coca-Cola. When a law requires disclosure of chemicals, companies may desire to keep what they consider to be trade secrets confidential. Regulators must have in place a legitimate and transparent process to determine what information genuinely deserves trade secret protection.”;“To ensure that trade secret claims are legitimate, companies should be made to provide specific factual justification which demonstrates that they are entitled to prevent public disclosure of the information. There should be a clear process for evaluating each claim and the public should be able to challenge exemptions that are granted. In addition, it should be made clear that trade secret status for the formula of a product (i.e. the amount of each chemical that goes into the product) is not equivalent to trade secret status for the identity of the chemicals that constitute it. Companies should have to provide separate factual justification for each claim.”;Assessing Health Impacts;Cases of Animal Deaths;Exemption Laws;Are there benefits?;Benefits to Natural Gas;Vocabulary;Sources