Monday, November 28, 2011

FARM ANIMALS ARE GETTING SICK AND DYING.. PEOPLE WILL BE NEXT - BAN FRACKING EVERYWHERE UNTIL IT CAN BE SAFELY REGULATED!



More than 35% of North Dakota’s natural gas production is being flared/not marketed, due to insufficient pipeline and processing capacity, the US Energy Information Agency reports.”The percentage of flared gas in North Dakota is considerably higher than the national average; in 2009, less than 1% of natural gas produced in the United States was vented or flared. No doubt, many of the effects on animals recorded in this video are from gas flare byproducts, as well as from open waste fluid pits and condensate tanks. This breaks my heart.




From Texan Sharon's excellent blog. here are the results of the private air testing done in the Bakken on the farm in that video. The State has no facilities to test for this wide range of chemicals that keep turning up again and again around our homes, schools and hospitals. There are the links to the health effects caused by each chemical.

HOUSE BASEMENT
Chemical
Benzene
Chloromethane (Methyl Chloride)
Dichlorodifluoromethane (F12)
Dichloromethane (Methyene chloride)
Toluene
***TICs
Propane
Isobutane
Butane
C5 Hydrocarbon
Ethanol
Acetone
Unidentified alcohol
C10 Hydrocarbon
HOUSE MAIN LEVEL DINING ROOM
Benzene
Chloromethane (Methyl Chloride)
Dichlorodifluoromethane (F12)
Dichloromethane (Methyene chloride)
Ethylbenzene
Styrene
Toluene
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene
m&p-Xylenes
o-Xylene
***TICs
Propane
Isobutane
Butane
Acetone
Ethyl methyl cyclohexane
1-Methylpropyl cyclohexane
Proply cyclohexane
C12 Hydrocarbon
1-Methylpropyl cyclohexane
D-Limonene
C13 Hydrocarbon
WEST FIELD
Benzene
Chlorobenzene
Chloroform
Chloromethane (Methyl Chloride)
1,2-Dichlorobenzene
1,4-Dichlorobenzene
1,1-Dichloroethane
Dichlorodifluoromethane (F12)
1,2-Dichloroethane (EDC)
cis-1,2-Dichloroethene
Ethylbenzene
Hexachlorobutadiene
Styrene
1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane
Tetrachloroethane (PCE)
Toluene
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene
1,2,4-Trichlorbenzene
Trichloroethene (TCE)
m&p-Xylenes
o-Xylene
***TICs
Propane
Isobutane
C4 Hydrocarbon
Acetone
Tetrahydrofuran
Methyl Isobuthy Ketone
C13 Hydrocarbon
INSIDE RED BARN – NO EQUIPMENT
Chloromethane (Methyl Chloride)
Dichlorodifluoromethane (F12)
Toluene
***TICs
Propane
C4 Hydrocarbon
Butane
C5 Hydrocarbon
Acetone

I don't know about you, but I find this both depressing and frightening that people and their animals are expected to live in, bathe in, eat, drink and breathe in a sea of noxious pollutants but appear to have no protection or comeback with regards to this industry.

Ventura County, CA, has determined that flaring gas results in emissions of benzene, formaldehyde, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, including naphthalene), acetaldehyde, acrolein, propylene, toluene, xylenes, ethyl benzene and hexane. http://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/pdf/COMBEM2001.pdf and researchers in Canada have measured more than 60 air pollutants downwind of natural gas flares. West Virginia Dept of Environmental Protection DOES NOT EVEN HAVE the equipment to monitor these harmful chemicals which include carcinogens, respiratory irritants, neurotoxins, mutagens and hormone disruptors. If gas drilling is so bloody wonderful.. such a "clean" resource, then WHY IS THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY EXEMPT from the Safe Drinking Water Act and Superfund regulations? The illegal flaring is STILL going on at Richwood, WV. They should have been fined around $630,000 already I believe....

A Duke University study published in May found that methane levels in dozens of drinking-water wells within a kilometer (3,280 feet) of new fracking sites were 17 times higher than in wells farther away. Yet states have let companies proceed without adequate regulations. States are flying blind. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now conducting comprehensive field research. Preliminary results are due in LATE 2012. Until then, states should put the brakes on the drillers, especially as the massive glut in gas production results in these dangerous flaring practices.

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