{"id":47642,"date":"2019-08-06T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47642"},"modified":"2019-08-06T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:04:17","slug":"report-no-evidence-that-fracking-can-operate-without-threatening-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47642","title":{"rendered":"Report: \u2018No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/therevelator.org\/fracking-health-studies\/\">Report: \u2018No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010 when I first started writing about hydraulic fracturing \u2014 the process of blasting a cocktail of water and chemicals into shale to release trapped hydrocarbons \u2014 there were more questions than answers about environmental and public-health threats. That same year Josh Fox\u2019s documentary&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/one.gaslandthemovie.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gasland<\/a><\/em>, which featured tap water bursting into flames, grabbed the public\u2019s attention. Suddenly the term&nbsp;<em>fracking<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 little known outside the oil and gas industry \u2014 became common parlance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the following years I&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facesoffracking.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visited with people in frontline communities<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 those living in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthisland.org\/journal\/index.php\/eij\/article\/an_extreme_energy_roadtrips_postcard_from_the_edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gas patches and oilfields<\/a>, along pipeline paths and beside compressor stations. Many were already woozy from the fumes or worried their drinking water was making them sick. When people asked me if they should leave their homes, it was hard to know what to say; there weren\u2019t many peer-reviewed studies to understand how fracking was affecting public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those days are over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June the nonprofits Physicians for Social Responsibility and Concerned Health Professionals of New York released the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/concernedhealthny.org\/compendium\/\" target=\"_blank\">sixth edition of a compendium<\/a>that summarizes more than 1,700 scientific reports, peer-reviewed studies and investigative journalism reports about the threats to the climate and public health from fracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research has been piling up for years, and the verdict is clear, the authors conclude: Fracking isn\u2019t safe, and heaps of regulations won\u2019t help (not that they\u2019re coming, anyway).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: \u2018No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health\u2019 More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature. In 2010 when I first started writing about hydraulic fracturing \u2014 the process of blasting a cocktail of water and chemicals into [&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":[331,412,3854,1875,19783,18491],"class_list":["post-47642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-public-health","tag-shale-industry","tag-tara-lohan","tag-the-revelator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47642","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=47642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47643,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47642\/revisions\/47643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}