Halliburton Fails to Give Gas Drilling Data, EPA Says

[kristopher]

Halliburton Fails to Give Gas Drilling Data, EPA Says
November 09, 2010, 1:07 PM EST

By Kim Chipman

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Halliburton Co. has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after failing to provide requested information on hydraulic fracturing, the agency said today.

Halliburton was the only one of nine companies that didn’t respond to the inquiry about chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a technique that shoots water into shale under high pressure to extract natural gas, the EPA said in an e-mailed statement.

The environmental agency is gathering data for a congressionally mandated study on the effects of fracturing on drinking water. The agency issued requests for information to the nine companies in September.

“Halliburton has failed to provide EPA the information necessary to move forward with this important study,” the agency said in the statement. “As a result, and as part of the agency’s effort to move forward as quickly as possible, today EPA issued a subpoena to the company requiring submission of the requested information that has yet to be provided.”...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-09/halliburton-fails-to-give-gas-drilling-data-epa-says.html

[aquart]

1. Halliburton delenda est.

[pscot]

2. Send the sheriff over

with a subpoena and a padlock.