Regulation of industry good for our health

It's a good thing we have the Environmental Protection Agency (imperfect though it is) and laws like the Clean Water Act to protect our health from corner-cutting industries. In Mexico, their laws and enforcement are weaker, and people are dying as a result.

This sad film, Silent River, discusses diseases of residents near Rio Santiago, Guadalajara brought on by unregulated industrial pollution:

http://www.silentriverfilm.com/film.html

Thank goodness we created the EPA decades ago. Remember how Pittsburgh's rivers used to be dead like this?

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Permalink Reply by Annie Miller on March 15, 2016 at 5:12pm
Regulation of ALL industries is needed in ALL countries; not just ours.

Nail polish remover is made of acetone, not xylene. Xylene is a more highly volitle substance. Plus, the acetone is highly diluted with water in nail polish remover. Very little danger with it; unless you tend to smoke while removing your nail polish !

Having lived within a half mile of the huge Gulfport's wells in NE Monroe county Ohio, I can tell you water contamination was not a problem at all. However, the air pollution released during the entire fracking process, and subsequent bleeding off of the wells was very unpleasant, and sent several local residents to their primary care doctors and respiratory specialists for treatment of acutely developing respiratory problems within 5 days of the commencement of fracking.

The worst offender of said air releases was hydrogen sulfide, unmistakabke in smell, and depending on which way the wind was blowing or not blowing, caused headaches, nausea, vomiting, and chronic severe coughing. Some residents had cardiovascular effects as well.

Myself; I developed a severe and chronic cough within 3 days of being directly downwind of the fracking commencing. Went to my PCP first; then a highly respected pulmonary specialist. A couple of thousand of dollars of tests were done; nothing was wrong with my lungs other than reaction to the ongoing exposure to fracking fumes.

So, I learned to not stay outside when the hydrogen sulfide stink was even remotely present; keep all the windows shut tightly at all times; and have been on Singulair RX since the pulmonary specialist diagnosed sensitivity to the fracking fumes. It reduces the bodies immune response to inhaled irritants.

You really don't comprehend the true effects of fracking until you experience it by living a half mile down wind of the airborne fumes.
Permalink Reply by Mike Fulper on June 9, 2016 at 1:28pm

My house is 400 yards from the Fracking on our property...

17 High Powered Diesel powered trucks hooked into a COMMONE MANIFOLD

to frack our wells....

There was NO PROBLEMS with the Fracking process... other then "NOISE' 

No bad fumes.... nobody got sick......birds are fine..... Deer stood 100 foot away and

"watched" the Fracking process.....

No contamination...

Those of you complaining about "fumes" and contamination..... are full of it....

Other then NOISE. and  I mean lots of noise.....no problems..

Ground didn't shake......grass still grows.... air is clean.....animals were happy.....

The majority of people on this site think all this whining is BS....

I WILL say... when the "bled off" the wells.......THEY KILLED MILLIONS OF MOSQUITOS !!

We havnt had ONE CASE OF MALARIA since the Fracking process.... 

I'm sillt waiting for the Dates and results of EPA Jury trial results....ha...

0ym9x5ag7ury2Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on June 9, 2016 at 5:38pm

That Stack at the well would be a sight to behold if you had a Methane Camera, or could see what is burning off into the air your neighbor breathes.

Everybody has to die eventually. Losing a few years off the end of your life is worth the royalty you get. Strike the words "you get" and replace them with "Should Have Gotten".

0ym9x5ag7ury2Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on June 9, 2016 at 5:54pm

In Summitville and West Of Agusta North of Carrollton, the number of strokes and heart attacks jumped up during the well drilling just in those two areas. One person was in his early 50s.

The Cracker Plants, compressors, NGL storage facilities and terminals to transfer these Miracle Toxic Carbons will force people to move to cleaner spaces in a non shale play state.

Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on June 6, 2016 at 2:36pm

More PFOA news:

"People in a rural area near Decatur, Ala., are bracing for a summer without regular access to tap water, after a water authority warned about 100,000 people not to drink or cook with it because of elevated levels of potentially toxic chemicals. ...

The EPA advisory declared that water authorities with elevated levels of these chemicals should “notify consumers and consult with their state drinking-water agency to discuss appropriate next steps. Public notification is especially important for pregnant or nursing women because of the impact these chemicals can have on the development of fetuses and breast-fed or formula-fed infants.” ...

Factories for decades used PFOA as a plastic coating to make consumer products such as Teflon nonstick pans, waterproof jackets and pizza boxes. PFOS was used to make stain resistant carpets and other products. A multiyear medical study in the 2000s of 70,000 people near a plant in West Virginia that made PFOA found “some suggestions” of “probable links” between high exposure to the chemical and illnesses, including cancer. Studies have found PFOS to be harmful to the immune systems of animals."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/alabama-community-warned-of-potentially...

0ym9x5ag7ury2Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on June 9, 2016 at 5:45pm

Paul,

      What happened in Parkersburg WV and Marietta OH, was DuPont producing the miracle coating Teflon using C-8 a highly carcinogenic chemical, probably renamed PFOAs.

The number of people I was raised with in that area that have died over the last 20 years due to cancer is phenomenal. I'm sure there are no identified cancer clusters or a class action lawsuit would have broken out by now.  

Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on June 10, 2016 at 1:01am

See my December 7 post on this thread. There is a class action, it involved 80,000 people in the Parkersburg area, and DuPont might pay out over $300 million in compensation to those that were poisoned before it's all over. See 

https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/

Permalink Reply by Gas Boy on June 8, 2016 at 9:57pm

Paul would also say "U.S. Government spying on you is good for your safety".

Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on June 9, 2016 at 2:10pm

When PA regulators seek solely to protect the quality of our air and water, that is a good and laudable thing.  We saw this agenda during the administration of (Democrat) Governor Ed Rendell.

However, importantly:

The true goal of more crazed regulators is finding a way to shut down oil and gas development in PA through over regulation.  They actually believe fervently in the anthropogenic global warming fantasy.  Fossil fuels, to these fools, are anathema.  Such insane regulators exist within the administration of (ultra-liberal Democrat) Tom Wolf.  Wolf himself would halt PA O&G development right now were doing so politically feasible.  It is not, so Wolf is instead taking an incremental approach to shutting us down, by and through any means available.

Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on June 9, 2016 at 3:55pm

Wow, still stuck on "anthropogenic global warming fantasy"? You need to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg

Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on June 9, 2016 at 9:49pm

I need to watch nothing.  I have far more than sufficient scientific background to be able, on my own, to recognize BS "science" when I encounter it.  AGW is strictly a political issue being promulgated by the liberal left.  And "wow" back atcha.  If you believe in the AGW myth you are an idiot.

Finally, I do not profit from the burgeoning AGW industry.  Those who do, of course, hold different views.  If you want to discern why you have merely to "follow the money", provided you possess sufficient common sense and understand human greed.

0ym9x5ag7ury2Permalink Reply by 0ym9x5ag7ury2 on June 9, 2016 at 5:32pm

My Brothers and I traveled to Pittsburgh with our Dad, well way back, and when we went through the Tunnels near the Point, the sky was ORANGE from the steel mills.

I'm betting this highly populated area we live in today will become the wasteland of the Oil & Gas Empire that chose to take it all without honoring the leases they signed. No one has the SPINE to call a theft what it is, A Criminal Matter not a Civil Matter.

I'm sure American Indians that remain in the area know exactly what I'm talking about. When the rich and the Great White Father (or Great Black Father) in Washington want something, they take it without payment violating all Treaties they signed.

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