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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2013, 03:03 PM Aug 2013

Dead Cows. "Energy companies are exempt from key provisions of environmental laws."

Which means they can legally poison you or your food supply without consequences, both deterring detections and the ability to prove their harm.

If they are killing the cattle, what effects are humans suffering?


"17 cows died after an hour’s exposure"

What are the low dose consequences if a high dose kills after an hour exposure?


Livestock falling ill in fracking regions
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/29/15547283-livestock-falling-ill-in-fracking-regions

By Elizabeth Royte
Food & Environment Reporting Network

In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil- and gas-drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. While scientists have yet to isolate cause and effect, many suspect chemicals used in drilling and hydrofracking (or “fracking”) operations are poisoning animals through the air, water or soil.

Earlier this year, Michelle Bamberger, an Ithaca, N.Y., veterinarian, and Robert Oswald, a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, published the first and only peer-reviewed report to suggest a link between fracking and illness in food animals.

The authors compiled 24 case studies of farmers in six shale-gas states whose livestock experienced neurological, reproductive and acute gastrointestinal problems after being exposed — either accidentally or incidentally — to fracking chemicals in the water or air. The article ....

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Dead Cows. "Energy companies are exempt from key provisions of environmental laws." (Original Post) Coyotl Aug 2013 OP
Good thing they got that exemption hootinholler Aug 2013 #1
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