Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 10 September 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what safety assessment has been conducted on the effect on drinking water supplies of a tanker carrying fracking chemicals to a pad being used for the extraction of natural gas using hydraulic fracturing of gases crashing en route and releasing the toxic contents into the water supplies.
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Movement of any chemicals, including those used in hydraulic fracturing, need to be considered under the UN Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals to determine whether they are classified as dangerous goods for the purpose of transport. If they are deemed to be so, they will be subject to the requirement for safe transport by road as laid down in the European Agreement concerning the international carriage of dangerous goods by road (ADR), which is strictly policed.
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