This is somewhat troubling:
http://www.erierising.com/human-hea...ment-of-unconventional-natural-gas-resources/
Basically, it says that those living within a 1/2 mile (that means a one mile circle with the gas well in the center) are subject to vastly more cancers and other diseases. Because of the way cancer and other diseases work, those further away also will have more problems, but they are harder to measure - and also cumulative.
Clean does not always mean clean. I am of the opinion that someday - and maybe even now - they would be able to extract this gas in a cleaner fashion, but why do so when they don't have to?
http://www.erierising.com/human-hea...ment-of-unconventional-natural-gas-resources/
Basically, it says that those living within a 1/2 mile (that means a one mile circle with the gas well in the center) are subject to vastly more cancers and other diseases. Because of the way cancer and other diseases work, those further away also will have more problems, but they are harder to measure - and also cumulative.
Clean does not always mean clean. I am of the opinion that someday - and maybe even now - they would be able to extract this gas in a cleaner fashion, but why do so when they don't have to?