NY Times Magazine: The Fracturing of Pennsylvania

[Kolesar]

Great account of the deaths and disease caused in Amity, Pennsylvania. Griswold's article also explain how brine water salts cannot be removed at municipal waste treatment plants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/fracking-amwell-township.html?adxnnl=1&ref=general&src=me&adxnnlx=1321640480-2IXL6TdHF57iH/G5Uq4TXQ&pagewanted=all

...The money would help to pay the taxes on their farms. The land man who came to the Haney home to sell the lease showed pictures of a farm and pasture with a well cap “the size of a garbage can,” Haney said, which she found reassuring. And it didn’t seem as if the drilling would affect their lives much. Range Resources was involved in the community in small ways too. For the past several years, it operated a booth at the Washington County Fair. In 2010, the company offered kids an extra $100 for the farm animals they auctioned. That was the year Stacey Haney’s son, Harley, took his breeding goat, Boots, all the way to grand champion.

At the fair, Haney ran into her next-door neighbor, Beth Voyles, 54, a horse trainer and dog breeder, who signed the lease with Haney in 2008. She told Haney that her 11 /2-year-old boxer, Cummins, had just died. Voyles thought that he was poisoned. She saw the dog drinking repeatedly from a puddle of road runoff, and she thought that the water the gas company used to wet down the roads probably had antifreeze in it. “We do not use ethylene glycol in the fracking process,” Matt Pitzarella of Range Resources told me. He also said that the dog’s veterinarian couldn’t confirm the dog had been poisoned and that another possible cause of death was cancer.

A month later, Haney’s dog, Hunter, also died suddenly. Soon after, Voyles called Haney to tell her that her barrel horse, Jody, was dead. Lab results revealed a high level of toxicity in her liver. Voyles sent her animals’ test results to Range Resources. In response, Range Resources wrote to Voyles to say that, as the veterinarian indicated, the horse died of toxicity of the liver, not antifreeze poisoning. The company did acknowledge that the vet suspected the horse died of poisoning by heavy metals. Subsequent tests of the Voyleses’ water supply by Range Resources revealed no heavy metals.
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[kristopher]

1. I can't say how much I dislike Dick Cheney and what he did to this country. K&R

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Here's what was recently found in fracking mixture ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2285105&mesg_id=2286228

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2285105&mesg_id=2285105

2-butoxyethanol is an example of an "amphiphile" -- a substance soluble in both nonpolar substances (such as oil) and highly polar ones (water)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiphile

Many important biological molecules are amphiphilic, and 2-BE may be masquerading as one of these molecules in vivo.

[txlibdem]

3. Now they want to do the same to Ohio - end fossil fuels NOW!!!

We need to end the use of these dangerous fossil fuels ASAP and get out government off their behinds to move forward with renewable energy replacement of every ounce of fossil fuel.

I want my grandchild to be able to ask me "What were fossil fuels?"

[grntuscarora]

4. They sold to Range Resources?

Hmmmmm, that name sounds familiar....

Oh, yeah. The outfit that said they hire military psy ops specialists to work the Pennsylvania communities:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11317/1189273-503-0.stm

Guess they'll be using their "special talents" to try to persuade people they're not really sick. :mad: