New Study Finds Life-Threatening Formaldehyde Levels at Fracking Sites

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by Amanda Frank,



People living near fracking sites have reported health problems for years, with symptoms ranging from respiratory ailments to birth defects. But because air and water quality are often not monitored near fracking sites, surprisingly little is known about the overall public health impacts of the gas drilling process. To help fill the knowledge gap, a new study explores air quality at fracking sites across several states and finds numerous instances of toxic chemicals above national safety standards.

Coming Clean and Global Community Monitor conducted the air quality study in six states – Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Wyoming. It is the first peer-reviewed study on air pollution from fracking that uses samples from multiple U.S. sites.

Breathing Toxic Air

Local residents collected air samples near fracking wells and production pads, as well as wastewater pools and processing stations. (In New York, for example, samples were collected near compressor stations on natural gas pipelines, as the state currently has a moratorium on fracking.)

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http://www.foreffectivegov.org/blog/new-study-finds-deadly-toxins-fracking-sites

[hootinholler]

1. How about a kick?

[nc4bo]

2. Well shit, if no one volunteers to tell us what's in fracking fluid, we know

NOW!

I wonder if there's a way to detoxify all the water they're poisoning as well as the earth.....I give up on air quality.

[KT2000]

3. as noted in the article

the safe levels are set for health young adult males - not women, children, pregnant women, the elderly or the sick.
The people who do become permanently ill will essentially be thrown overboard. They will not get medical care that will help because doctors do not offend powerful business interests - otherwise they will be visited by their insurance companies and the state medical association and medical boards. They will likely be diagnosed as having stress or depression and be given antidepressants.

If they are unable to work due to the illness they will have a hard time getting disability. In some instances of environmental poisoning, applicants must claim mental illness, thereby protecting the liable business. The ones that get cancer will have an easier time though.

There will be lots of sick people as a result of fracking but there have been many more before them from other environmental disasters. The future for such people is sickness, poverty and silence. Just a heads up.

[adirondacker]

4. K&R! nt

[rhett o rick]

5. Pres Obama says that fracking is the bridge to a new energy. Stand by. nm

[WhiteTara]

6. The American People have spoken

they love it! Now move along, there's nothing to see here.

[MoonRiver]

7. I guess Republicans are immune to the toxic effects of fracking

and other forms of corporate pollution.

[n2doc]

8. They just don't allow fracking near their beautiful houses

At least, if they are a 1%'er.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/02/22/exxon-mobil-tillerson-ceo-fracking/5726603/