{"id":3041,"date":"2014-12-15T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:32:07","slug":"chemicals-from-fracking-acidizing-and-gravel-packing-make-us-sick-faces-of-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"Chemicals from fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing make us sick &#8211; Faces of Fracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facesoffracking.org\/chemicals-fracking-acidizing-gravel-packing-make-us-sick\/\">Chemicals from fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing make us sick &#8211; Faces of Fracking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">It is well-known that many of the\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #138488; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: border, background, color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial, initial; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px !important 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/229547071\/Air-Toxics-One-Year-Report-Oil-Companies-Used-Millions-of-Pounds-of-Air-Polluting-Chemicals-in-Los-Angeles-Basin-Neighborhoods\">chemicals used in fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing<\/a>\u00a0are harmful to our bodies. Just look at the above graphic. What hasn\u2019t been so clear is the evidence that highlights incidences where these chemicals have actually made people sick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">There are two main factors why we still don\u2019t have a comprehensive overview of the health impacts of fracking: industry secrecy (there are laws that protect companies from disclosing the chemicals they use) and government inaction (for example,\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #138488; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: border, background, color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial, initial; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px !important 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/epas-abandoned-wyoming-fracking-study-one-retreat-of-many\">the EPA has backed off several studies<\/a>\u00a0to investigate the health impacts of fracking). Additional factors compound the problem: non-disclosure agreements, sealed court records, and legal settlements (all which prevent families and their doctors from talking about how they got sick).<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\">Nevertheless, the stack of evidence that tells us that fracking and similar techniques does make us ill is piling up. Based on peer-reviewed studies, accident reports, and investigative articles, we know now that fracking can not be practiced without endangering human health. Chemicals can and do\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #138488; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: border, background, color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial, initial; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/09\/15\/study-bad-fracking-techniques-let-methane-flow-into-drinking-water\/\">leak from well casings and get into the water supply<\/a>. Chemicals released into the atmosphere\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #138488; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: border, background, color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial, initial; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ehjournal.net\/content\/13\/1\/82\/abstract\">worsen our air quality<\/a>. Chemical spills from pipelines get in the<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #138488; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: border, background, color; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial, initial; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px !important 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/171504\/fracking-our-food-supply\">\u00a0soil we use to grow food<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"OLE_LINK1\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemicals from fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing make us sick &#8211; Faces of Fracking. It is well-known that many of the\u00a0chemicals used in fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing\u00a0are harmful to our bodies. Just look at the above graphic. What hasn\u2019t been so clear is the evidence that highlights incidences where these chemicals have actually made [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[331,1942,638,723,1215],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-fracking","tag-fracking-chemicals","tag-pollution","tag-shale-oil","tag-toxins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}