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A gas compressor station operates on a hillside 1,600 feet from their homes. A shale-gas well, drilled and fracked in 2010, sits just 500 feet away, atop a ridge above their properties. The well pad is so close that their windows and walls vibrated during drilling and fracking, they said.

Once, when Jeaney Ann’s twin sons, Nathan and Daniel, were playing outdoors, she called them inside as the familiar industrial smell from gas operations filled their valley. Later, while retrieving their toys, Jeaney Ann said, she saw a white haze and iridescent bubbles in the air. She showed a reporter photos of those bubbles.

The smell left her dizzy, then ill, she said. Her skin burned and itched, she began shaking and her face turned red. Later she developed painful blisters in her nostrils and had trouble swallowing, causing her over time to lose nearly 100 pounds.

At the same time, Jeaney Ann’s son Daniel started having seizures while sleeping. Then his hands began to shake. In time, Nathan’s head began twitching and his hands trembled. Jeaney Ann and Phyllis said they instructed the boys to rush inside whenever they smelled that smell.
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the latest Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking that includes 1,778 studies does show that fetuses, infants and children face increased risk of air- and water pollution-induced health impacts from shale gas development, ranging from preterm births and birth defects to asthma, headaches, nosebleeds, neurological problems, depression and cognitive decline.

It also cites “substantial evidence” that drilling and fracking activities and wastewater disposal “inherently threaten groundwater and have polluted drinking water sources.” “

Source: https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/blog/fracking-and-health-2/