Salon.com > Alison Rose Levy http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fracking’s most horrifying health risks http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/frackings_most_horrifying_health_risks/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/03/frackings_most_horrifying_health_risks/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:54:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13113331 AlterNet The good news is that a public health department— New York State’s Department of Health (DOH)— is finally undertaking an assessment of fracking’s likely health risks. The bad news is that it’s questionable whether it will allow adequate time to do a credible and complete job. So says a new scientific watchdog group launched to assure that science, rather than expediency prevails.

Up until now government has relied on the gas industry's blanket assurances of safety. The industry routinely tries to conflate the safety of vertical gas drilling (in use for a over a century) with horizontal fracking (in use for a little over a decade), a method which deploys a potent arsenal of chemicals so hazardous they defy known waste treatment methods.

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