Hormone-disrupting chemicals found in water at fracking sites

[Redfairen]

Source: LA Times

Water samples collected at Colorado sites where hydraulic fracturing was used to extract natural gas show the presence of chemicals that have been linked to infertility, birth defects and cancer, scientists reported Monday.

The study, published in the journal Endocrinology, also found elevated levels of the hormone-disrupting chemicals in the Colorado River, where wastewater released during accidental spills at nearby wells could wind up.

Tests of water from sites with no fracking activity also revealed the activity of so-called endocrine-disrupting chemicals, or EDCs. But the levels from these control sites were lower than in places with direct links to fracking, the study found.

"With fracking on the rise, populations may face greater health risks from increased endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure," said senior author Susan Nagel, who investigates the health effects of estrogen at the University of Missouri School of Medicine.



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[RC]

1. Fracking need to be outlawed.

In too many place,s they are contaminating the water tables and even aquifers. They have little to no control of where and how far the cracks in the subterranean rocks are, or go. Or even what cracks exist before the fracking.

[Ace Acme]

4. The reasons to pursue fracking are only to allow an out-of-control economy to continue

its steady, predictable, out-of-control growth for another very few years.

If a few poor people who drink and cook with tapwater find themselves infertile, that's just gravy for those who can afford bottled water.

[KansDem]

2. Oh, that's all we need: our hormones disrupted.

When will this madness end and sanity prevail?

[mitty14u2]

3. Watch how the PR campaign and Big Oil advertise,

Watch how the PR campaign and Big Oil advertise, BP has had a ongoing PR campaign since they polluted the whole Gulf of Mexico, now ExxonMobil started last month, nether need to advertise, it could be payoff to the Networks in advertising $dollars not to run negative stories. Exxon Mobile is on the verge to make over $30 billion for 2013 in Profits, don’t that make you feel better at the Pumps, the largest polluters of the planet pay off the news media, Hmmm just a thought! Closer to 2014/16 elections you will see more and more Big Oil Commercials…….. Buying the media aint cheep!

[Vincardog]

5. IMO FRACKING is one of the ways big dirty oil disposes of refinery wastes.

[DeSwiss]

6. It's in the food, its in the water, it's in the air......

...it's EVERYWHERE!

- It's just a coincidence, I'm sure.

K&R

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