Posted by on March 16, 2015
Filed Under: air pollution, compressor stations, deaths, exposure, fracking, GasVet Studies, health impacts, hydraulic fracturing, minisink ny

Project studying illnesses near Minisink gas compressor

Resident says family suffering maladies

TOWN OF MINISINK – Public health toxicologist David Brown does not call his work with people living around gas compressor stations “research.”

“When people are sick, you don’t do a study. You find out what they’re sick from,” he said.

Brown is a founder of the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project, a nonprofit group begun in 2011, initially devoted to providing public health information and services related to natural gas extraction in Washington County.

Now the Environmental Health Project is studying 30 people living near the Millennium Pipeline gas compressor that was built in Minisink 18 months ago.    (READ MORE…)

https://gasvets.org/2015/03/16/747/

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Posted by on January 5, 2015
Filed Under: air pollution, community impact survey, compressor stations, exposure, fracking, Gas Worker News, GasVet Studies, health impact survey, health impacts, hydraulic fracturing, water sources, water supplies, worker harm

Respiratory and skin complaints more likely within 1 mile of a gas well….

From the January 2015 issue of the scientific journal, “Environmental Health Perspectives” come these excerpts from a health study of 180 households (492 persons) with ground-fed water wells living within 1-2 miles of fracking in Washington County, PA:

“Gas well proximity for each household was compared with the prevalence and frequency of reported dermal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and neurological symptoms.

Results: The number of reported health symptoms per person was higher among residents living < 1 km (mean ± SD, 3.27 ± 3.72) compared with > 2 km from the nearest gas well (mean ± SD, 1.60 ± 2.14; p = 0.0002).

… reported skin conditions were more common in households < 1 km compared with > 2 km from the nearest gas well….

Upper respiratory symptoms were also more frequently reported in persons living in households < 1 km from gas wells (39%) compared with households 1–2 km or > 2 km from the nearest well (31 and 18%, respectively) (p = 0.004).

Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that natural gas drilling activities could be associated with increased reports of dermal and upper respiratory symptoms in nearby communities; these results support the need for further research into health effects of natural gas extraction activities.”

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/123/1/ehp.1307732.alt.pdf

https://gasvets.org/2015/01/05/734/

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Posted by on December 16, 2014
Filed Under: accidents, air pollution, compressor stations, deaths, dumping, exposure, fines, foreseeable harm, fracking, Gas Worker News, health impacts, hydraulic fracturing, spills, water contamination, water supplies, worker deaths, worker harm

Phenomenal work by Marcellus Outreach Butler in compiling this partial month-by-month list of Spills, Accidents, and Violations by frackers. The link takes you to reports for 2014 but MOB has plenty for before this year, too. Thank you, MOB!

http://www.marcellusoutreachbutler.org/spill-baby-spill

https://gasvets.org/2014/12/16/725/

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Posted by on May 3, 2014
Filed Under: air pollution, compressor stations, exposure, GasVet Studies, health impacts, methane

Wilma Subra: Minisink, NY Environmental and Human Health Impacts

Wilma Subra Exposes Some Truths about the Minisink, NY Compressor and Gas Fired Power Plant.

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/03/502/

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