{"id":7114,"date":"2015-04-05T08:28:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2015-04-05T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T13:28:36","slug":"health-professionals-call-ban-fracking-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7114","title":{"rendered":"Health professionals call: ban fracking for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health professionals call: ban fracking for five years<\/a><\/h3>\n

Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The arguments against fracking on public health and ecological grounds are overwhelming. There are clear grounds for adopting the precautionary principle and prohibiting fracking.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Medact<\/a>, the UK-based public health group concerned with the social and ecological determinants of health, have published their\u00a0long-awaited report<\/a>\u00a0on the impacts of fracking upon public health.<\/p>\n

First announced\u00a0last year<\/a>, following Public Health England’squestionable report<\/a>into the impacts of shale gas,\u00a0Medact’s review<\/a>\u00a0considers a number of existing reviews of the evidence of ‘fracking’ on public health.<\/p>\n

Given the likely public health consequences of climate change, it also examines claim that shale gas might aid the transition towards a low carbon energy system.<\/p>\n

The conclusion of the report, which is likely tobeget<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>further vitriol<\/a>\u00a0from the UK’s pro-fracking lobby, is clear:<\/p>\n

“On the basis of our existing knowledge, it would be both prudent and responsible to call for, at the very least, a five year moratorium on all activities related to shale gas development … “<\/em><\/p>\n

Unlike ‘official’ bodies, Medact actually reviewed the evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report reviews a number of existing studies from public health agencies, as well as a wide range of journal papers. For example:<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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Health professionals call: ban fracking for five years Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored. […]<\/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":[331,332,4643,412,4644,3854],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-fracking","tag-fracking-ban","tag-health-professionals","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-moratorium","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","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=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7115,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}