Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers

NPR ^ | 05/15/2012 | Rob Stein

[Arrowhead1952]

But Porbin is skeptical that many people are getting sick from the drilling, which is commonly called "fracking."

Fracking is not part of the drilling process. It happens after the well is drilled straight down or horizontally.

[aruanan]

Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers

Poor dopes. Fracking has been going on for 40 years.

[thackney]

Then go on to explain how the OIL COMPANIES don’t really mind the melt and the warming.....because it make their operations easier......

In the arctic North Slope, Alaska, heavy loads including drill rigs can only be moved around during the winter ice season when the weight bearing capabilities are high. You can not move a rig to a new area to explore drilling except in the winter.

The winters have become overburden with traffic trying to move in equipment and years supply of chemicals and the like to some sites.

[Arrowhead1952]

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

Several years ago, a meth lab / trailer house about 10 miles from us blew up from a leaking acetone container.

[thackney]

Fracking has been going on for 40 65 years.

Hydraulic Fracturing History
http://www.spe.org/jpt/print/archives/2010/12/10Hydraulic.pdf

[Dusty Road]

Ya know with all the threat of dangerous chemicals and fumes coming from frac jobs there must be bodies piled knee deep around the locations.

[Sea Parrot]

Oh ye, don’t know what it is, but lay the blame on those evil frackers.

Frac jobs have been standard procedure for enhancing flow of gas and oil in tight formations since the 1920s with no problems.

Now suddenly fracking is going to end the world as we know it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The activists have opened a “free medical clinic” south of Pittsburgh. They are running classified ads and are literally out there trolling for victims.

[tomkat]

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[Dusty Road]

Never worked in that area but have friends that have and they say warm conditons make things much worse. When it melts everything get stuck or bogged.

[thackney]

Hydraulic fracturing was first used in 1947.

Pneumatic fracturing goes back to the 1860’s.

[Dusty Road]

Don’t forget the nitro frac’s. My dad said he lost an uncle outside of Hobbs NM when the 40 quarts of nitro he was hauling went off.

[Sea Parrot]

Same here, I have been the company man on well completions for Marathon Oil Co. in Wyoming back in the 70s and 80s.

This is all green weenie generated hysteria to spook the public on fracking causing everything from earthquakes to chemical poisoning of water aquifers.

[thackney]

Whoops, the 1860’s WAS nitroglycerin fracturing, not pneumatic.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

...all of a sudden your tongue gets this metal taste on it...There’s a smelting plant down the road

I think I might see a connection...unless they are talking about the fish.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: Nail polish remover? That’s acetone ::

Some remover is made with Ethyl Acetate, a known upper-respiratory irritant. And your right, neither is used in fracking fluids.

I wonder of there is a need for Acetone or Ethyl Acetate in the “smelting” business.

[Pietro]

In the first place Burgettstown is no bucolic rural area. That place was strip mined to bare bones years ago and there are still active mines in the area. Also as the article mentions the smelting plant down the road in Langeloth is Climax-Malib (sp?) and it has a smoke stack about 150' high; there's some badass juju in that place believe me. Not to mention old fabrication and industrial locations long since abandoned.

Trying to pin whatever is going on there to fraccing is really a stretch. Besides most of the fraccing in the area is towards the east of Burgettstown near Hickory and Chartiers..

[Sequoyah101]

NPR, the national enquirer of the airwaves.

What a steaming pile of crap.

This passes for journalism an objective reporting? I really don’t think that is what they are going for anyway.

[JimRed]

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.

And there are lots of enviro-whackos who will deliberately release something smelly to try to make it appear that whatever activity they oppose as their cause du jour is causing problems. Never discount THAT possibility.

[JimRed]

The EPA just issued a new ruling that says the drillers will have to disclose that information after a well is fracked...

Then the enviro-whackos will know what symptoms they have to fake to get the fracking stopped.