It was slightly comforting ( I use the word comforting hesitantly) to read this article online.
"Cuomo on Monday said a decision on shale-gas drilling will be 'one of the most important decisions we will make as a government, with far-reaching consequences.'"
Oh good. The (state) government is openly admitting that while fracking is a wonderful "right now" way to get natural gas it's possibly not going to be good for the long term. I say possibly because no matter how skeptical I am I do have pose the possibility that though fracking may pose threats to our personal and environmental health, it may not be the doomsday I sometimes make it out to be.
Yet, there's been a lot of talk about high levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals in areas that have a history of drilling spills. It rings some warning bells for me. When PCBS were being investigated the EPA said they were not going to test for endocrine disrupters and inhalation pathways even though non fish eaters were showing high levels of PCBs. When fracking was first becoming a huge issue people reported that their families were becoming sick for no reason and their pets were getting sick as well. People in the gas industry wanted nothing to do with these claims. Now that investigations are happening, investigations that are looking at the health of locals in areas with fracking I think it will be a lot harder for gas companies to push aside their accusations.
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