PA Fracking and Cancer Rates Report

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

Using the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry, the cancer study looked at 507 children, aged 0-19, who were diagnosed between 2010 and 2019 in southwestern Pennsylvania’s shale gas hot spots: Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, Beaver and Butler counties, and all of Allegheny County around the City of Pittsburgh, which has a ban on hydraulic fracturing.

It focused on the three most common cancers in children and adolescents in the United States — leukemias, brain and central nervous system tumors, and lymphomas — and added rare bone cancers including Ewing sarcoma, at the urging of concerned parents in Washington and Westmoreland counties and former-Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration.

Lumping all the cancers together, researchers calculated that, “children diagnosed with any of the four malignancies included in the study were about four times more likely to live in a house within 0.5 miles” of a shale gas development site than those who lived elsewhere.

[link:https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2023/08/15/shale-gas-fracking-health-studies/stories/202308150112|

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1. Shale-Gas Revolution

Hey, those folks (who own land over the gas reserves) probably are getting a pretty penny for their troubles.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the actual company chief officers and stockholders were asked to live around their wells and suffer the same fate as those who didn't have a choice?

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

2. those folks are getting something

but, yeah, nothing like the energy executives who don't have to sacrifice their health for a bit of money

Not to mention your drinking water catching fire (and this was a decade ago)

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