{"id":21076,"date":"2016-06-18T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21076"},"modified":"2016-06-18T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T20:30:49","slug":"high-levels-of-chemicals-found-in-people-living-near-gas-wells-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21076","title":{"rendered":"High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Chemicals from gas wells were discovered in biological samples drawn from residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, at levels as\u00a0much as ten times the national averages, according to a new report. The study is the first to sample both the\u00a0air near drilling sites and the levels of chemicals in people living and working near those wells, allowing researchers to\u00a0study the ways that toxic air pollutants are entering people’s bodies near gas wells and putting their health at\u00a0risk.<\/p>\n

The researchers found evidence of 16 potentially dangerous chemicals in 11 individuals who volunteered to participate in\u00a0the study by wearing air monitors and providing blood and urine samples. They found benzene, toluene, 2-heptanone, 4\u00a0heptanone and evidence of roughly a dozen other substances \u2014\u00a0including some known to be quite dangerous and others\u00a0for which little safety information is\u00a0available.<\/p>\n

Wilma Subra, a chemist and microbiologist who has spent three decades researching the impacts of toxic chemicals, and\u00a0who participated in the new report, told DeSmog that there was reason to be concerned about the health of\u00a0the people\u00a0included in the study, saying that they found chemicals \u201cabove acceptable levels in many\u00a0cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

The health concerns would be about the same in many gas fields across the U.S., she said. \u201cIt is very similar to other\u00a0areas\u00a0where shale has been developed,\u201d she added, \u201cbut also to areas where conventional drilling has taken place\u00a0over\u00a0the\u00a0years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pavillion is perhaps best-known nationwide for its battles over water contamination and fracking, which began in\u00a0roughly\u00a02008 when locals first reported that their water tasted different and carried strange odors. The\u00a0Environmental\u00a0Protection Agency launched a study, then dropped it, leaving the investigation to state regulators who\u00a0have yet to reach any final\u00a0conclusions.<\/p>\n

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High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report Chemicals from gas wells were discovered in biological samples drawn from residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, at levels as\u00a0much as ten times the national averages, according to a new report. The study is the first to sample both the\u00a0air near drilling sites and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[128,5317,3957,14035,395,11167,1215],"class_list":["post-21076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-chemicals","tag-desmog-blog","tag-gas-drilling","tag-gas-wells","tag-health","tag-sharon-kelly","tag-toxins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21077,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions\/21077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}