Just living near a fracking site increases your risk of life-threatening illness
by: Harold Shaw
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, March 05, 2016
Since the early 2000s, U.S. government bureaucrats have adopted a welcoming attitude towards hydraulic fracturing. By obtaining oil and gas locally, the country doesn’t need to purchase them at an increased cost from other nations. At the same time, jobs are created for an economy that was previously slumping, so that when the 2008 crash occurred, the fracking industry was one of the few that kept its bearings. People needed gas and oil and they need it still. On paper, it makes sense.
The interesting fact is that while hydraulic fracturing has been going on for more than 10 years in the U.S., there are no long-term governmental studies that indicate its effect on the citizens living near wells. The wastewater produced in the process, along with the hundreds of chemicals to extract gas and oil from the earth, didn’t seem like a major concern.
However, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania are worried, and they’re not quite as impressed with the positives of fracking.
Just four years
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