Tuesday, August 5, 2014

MOTHERS AGAINST FRACKING

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock and release the gas.  Fracking and drilling associated with fracking pose a direct and immediate threat to the drinking water, air, climate, food, health and economies of communities across the United States. Fracking must be stopped IMMEDIATELY.   It is causing huge chemical spills, earthquakes, gas explosions, and is posing a very serious health threat to humans and animals alike.


Americans Against Fracking is comprised of entities dedicated to banning drilling and fracking for oil and natural gas in order to protect our shared vital resources for future generations. All of the organizations listed below are part of the Americans Against Fracking  Movement.  You should think about taking action in your community today! There is quite a lot one person can do in terms of educating her community, signing petitions, and voting appropriately.  To see what you can do visit
AMERICANS AGAINST FRACKING

National Organizations In AAF

Fracking Chemicals

Horizontal fracking uses up to 300 tons of a mixture of 750 chemicals, many of them proprietary, and millions of gallons of water per frack. This water then becomes contaminated and must be cleaned and disposed of. To date, the oil/gas industry has been secretive about what chemicals are used, and has lobbied Congress for a variety of protections. Much of the contaminated water is taken to water treatment plants that are not designed to process the chemicals and radiation found in fracking fluids.
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed by Congress, in 1974, to ensure clean drinking water free from both natural and man-made contaminates.


In 2005, the Bush/Cheney Energy Bill exempted natural gas drilling from the Safe Drinking Water Act. It exempts companies from disclosing the chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing. Essentially, the provision took the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) off the job. It is now commonly referred to as the Halliburton Loophole.
 *from: MADION website


The following information was found on MADION's website.  All mothers should be aware of the various health threats fracking pose.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber Talks About Drilling & Fracking

Dr. Sandra Steingraber is internationally recognized as an authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. Steingraber was formerly on faculty at Cornell University and is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Ithaca College, located in Ithaca, New York. Steingraber has held visiting fellowships at the University of Illinois, Radcliffe/Harvard, and Northeastern University, and served on President Clinton’s National Action Plan on Breast Cancer. “I’ve heard a hazardous materials specialist describe to a crowd of people living in fracked communities how many parts per million of benzene will raise risks for leukemia and sperm abnormalities linked to birth deformities. I’ve heard a woman who lives by a fracking operation in Pennsylvania—whose pond bubbles with methane and whose kids have nosebleeds at night—ask how she could keep her children safe. She was asking me. And I had no answer.” Click to see the Senate Standing Committee on Energy Conservation Public Hearing to examine waste water produced by hydraulic fracturing, sponsored by New York State Senators Mark Grisanti and Patrick Gallivan. January 12, 2011, Canandaigua, NY.
Prize to Fuel Anti-fracking Fight
Biologist giving most of $100G environmental award to opponents
By Brian Nearing
March 27, 2012
Sandra Steingraber, winner of a Heinz Foundation award, decided to use her $100,000 national environmental prize to help a newly formed coalition of six environmental and political groups that are working to keep hydrofracking from being allowed in the state.
“This is a very generous donation that is still a drop in the bucket compared to what the drillers have spent and will continue to spend,” said Cantor. “But we have something that money cannot buy — the passion of a lot of people from across the state.” Read more…
Sandra Steingraber on Fracking and Cancer

Among many of her accomplishments, Sandra Steingraber is also an ecologist, author and cancer survivor. Yet, Steingraber sees her most important role as a parent whose responsibility it is to keep her children safe from harm. Full article…
December 12, 2011: Dr. Steingraber’s letter to Governor Cuomo of New York
“As New York State considers whether to maintain or lift its current moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, we bring to your attention the myriad ways in which the introduction of this industrial practice in New York State will raise our cancer risk even further and add more data points to the New York State Cancer Registry. As such, we echo the call of the more than 250 physicians and medical professionals who, in their letter to you of October 7, 2011, requested that the state fully assess the human health impacts of hydraulic fracturing in advance of issuing permits and as part of the decision-making process.” Full text of letter…

The Whole Fracking Enchilada Violating the bedrock, the atmosphere, and everything in between
BY SANDRA STEINGRABER
Published in the September/October 2010 issue of Orion magazine
I HAVE COME to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too. Full article… Top


Dr. Theo Colborn Talks About Drilling & Fracking


Dr. Colborn earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Zoology (distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry); an MA in Science at Western State College of Colorado (fresh-water ecology); and a BS in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, College of Pharmacy. Colborn has served on numerous advisory panels, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the Ecosystem Health Committee of the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada, the Science Management Committee of the Toxic Substances Research Initiative of Canada, the U.S. EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee, and the EPA Endocrine Disruption Methods and Validation Subcommittee. She has published and lectured extensively on the consequences of prenatal exposure to synthetic chemicals by the developing embryo and fetus in wildlife, laboratory animals, and humans.
World-Renowned Scientist Dr. Theo Colborn on the Health Effects of Water Contamination from Fracking
The Environmental Protection Agency has begun a review of how the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” can affect drinking water quality. We speak to Dr. Theo Colborn, the president of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange and one of the foremost experts on the health and environmental effects of the toxic chemicals used in fracking. Click to see video…

Dr. Theo Colborn Talks Fracking
This video depicts rural areas. However, the drilling and fracking process is the same as well as the contaminants now being released in our urban neighborhoods. To date, very little scientific data is available to inform residents, living only hundreds of feet from a drill pad and tank batteries, of the health problems our children will experience. The scientific community can only speculate what the short term and long term exposure to all the toxic chemicals and gases emitted from each well that is drilled, fracked and producing will have on all our lives.
Theo Colborn, Ph.D talks hydraulic fracturing. Clips were taken from her DVD, “What You Need To Know About Natural Gas Production.”
Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, Taylor & Francis
Volume 17, Issue 5, Sept 20, 2011 Theo Colborn, Carol Kwiatkowski, Kim Schultz & Mary Bachran

ABSTRACT:
The technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals. A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. Literature searches were conducted to determine potential health effects of the 353 chemicals identified by Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers. More than 75% of the chemicals could affect the skin, eyes, and other sensory organs, and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. Full ABSTRACT…



LINKS TO VERY IMPORTANT SITES: 

AMERICANS AGAINST FRACKING
MADION: Mothers Against Drilling in our Neighborhoods
MOTHERS AGAINST FRACKING FACEBOOK SITE

I FEEL VERY PASSIONATELY ABOUT STOPPING HYDRAULIC FRACKING! SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO IN YOUR COMMUNITY!  VISIT AMERICANS AGAINST FRACKING!


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