CandySlice
This is a Dark ride
Because if you do, I guess you're gonna have to go vegan (or, at least eat something other than beef), because apparently, it's not only lighting people's water on fire, it's now creeping into the food source.
In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil- and gas-drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. While scientists have yet to isolate cause and effect, many suspect chemicals used in drilling and hydrofracking (or fracking) operations are poisoning animals through the air, water or soil.
Earlier this year, Michelle Bamberger, an Ithaca, N.Y., veterinarian, and Robert Oswald, a professor of molecular medicine at Cornells College of Veterinary Medicine, published the first and only peer-reviewed report to suggest a link between fracking and illness in food animals.
The authors compiled 24 case studies of farmers in six shale-gas states whose livestock experienced neurological, reproductive and acute gastrointestinal problems after being exposed either accidentally or incidentally to fracking chemicals in the water or air. The article, published in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health, describes how scores of animals died over the course of several years. Fracking industry proponents challenged the study, since the authors neither identified the farmers nor ran controlled experiments to determine how specific fracking compounds might affect livestock.
The death toll is insignificant when measured against the nations livestock population (some 97 million beef cattle go to market each year), but environmental advocates believe these animals constitute an early warning.
Exposed livestock are making their way into the food system, and its very worrisome to us, Bamberger said. They live in areas that have tested positive for air, water and soil contamination. Some of these chemicals could appear in milk and meat products made from these animals.
In Louisiana, 17 cows died after an hours exposure to spilled fracking fluid, which is injected miles underground to crack open and release pockets of natural gas. The most likely cause of death: respiratory failure.
In New Mexico, hair testing of sick cattle that grazed near well pads found petroleum residues in 54 of 56 animals.
Livestock falling ill in fracking regions - Open Channel
Yep..............keep getting rid of the regs...........seems to help business, but not the people.
Texas is known primarily for two things . Oil and prime beef. They co-exist beautifully and have done so for 100 years with a minimum of conservation effort and a little common sense.
I suggest to ANYBODY who doesn't like the idea of drilling for oil to throw away their car and SUV keys and fix your mouth for the taste of Arab butt.
Hey, no bicycles either. You have to OIL the chains.
Biker, that means the Bike AND the Battleship have to go, get it??