Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers

NPR ^ | 05/15/2012 | Rob Stein

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The whole place reeked — like someone had spilled a giant bottle of nail polish remover.

You don't suppose it's actually nail polish remover? (acetone)

[almcbean]

Hysteria masquerading as journalism.

[CalvaryJohn]

Talk about a misleading headline. No bias here. Fortunately, for those curious enough to read the article, there is no evidence.

[Kenny Bunk]

NPR is in full campaign mode. Fuller than normal.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Fracking ping.

[Smokin' Joe]

Nail polish remover? That's acetone, and not used in drilling fluids (WAY too much of an explosion/flash fire hazard, and the crews would be sick, too).

Note, too, the article confuses drilling (cutting the wellbore) with fracking (a different process in which the already drilled wellbore is fractured at depth by using fluid and a proppant--usually sand--to make fractures and shove the proppant in to hold them open).

I hope they find the problem, but I'd look in the clinic basement and storage areas of the clinic for leaking chemicals rather than waste my time blaming a drilling rig.

Maybe someone has a drug lab nearby and is looking to blame the oil and gas inductry.

[Obadiah]

Now, no one knows whether the gas drilling has anything to do with the problems at the clinic. It could easily turn out to be something completely unrelated. There's a smelting plant down the road and old coal mines everywhere.

So why is fracking assumed in NPRs scary headline?

[Uncle Ike]

” Fortunately, for those curious enough to read the article, there is no evidence. “

[With apologies to Voltaire]

If harm from fracking did not exist, it would be necessary for trial lawyers to invent it...

[Straight Vermonter]

I remember when microwave ovens were new and people were suing because they had gotten cancer or impotence or something else from them. I suspect any new technology is subject to this hysteria.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Hey, I know, let’s blame fracking with no evidence at all. Nonsense Public Radio.

[richardtavor]

What utter nonsense. This reporter is a novelist, not a reporter.

[South Dakota]

I worked the Jonah and Mesa gas fieldsin Wyoming on at pulling unit for 3 years and the fracs for 2 years and never missed a days work.

Something tells me this is BS frenzy to create fear

[cripplecreek]

Besides, you get used to the acetone. I was a paint room foreman for years and we went through 55 gallon drums of the stuff.

[DaveA37]

Start looking around for a meth-lab. Could be someone dumped/is dumping waste. Just a thought.

[Uncle Ike]

” Hey, I know, let’s blame fracking with no evidence at all. Nonsense Public Radio. “

Following the sterling example of their favorite quintissential Imperial Bureaucracy -

The EPA has testified before Congressional Committees that there is no scientific evidence to back up their claims that fracking is harmful — but they’re gonna regulate it out of existence anyway...

[ArrogantBustard]

So why is fracking assumed in NPRs scary headline?

Because NPR is run by leftist. Leftists are liars.

Leftists also love increasing government power.

Leftists use their habit of lying to create panic over the appearance of a crisis (real or fabricated). Leftists then lie about the nature of the crisis, and the ability to solve it by increasing government power. Eventually the crisis goes away (if it was even real in the first place), but the increased government power remains.

NEVER trust a leftist.

[mo]

THe Dems Are trying to get their buddies, the trial lawyers a good gig here

[saganite]

Smokin Joe

I googled acetone as a fracking agent and came up with some articles that say its used for such. Of course I bow to your knowledge but are the articles wrong?

[richardtavor]

However, this isn’t new technology. We have been fracking successfully for 60 years. Only the hysteria is new.