Posted by on April 6, 2015
Filed Under: accidents, deaths, exposure, fracking, Gas Worker News, health impacts, hydraulic fracturing, industry exemptions, legal, water contamination, water sources, water supplies, worker deaths

Dallas doctor gets no answers on frack fluid ingredients.

(Gas Vets note:  Courts and corporations have more importance than the public health…)

After his failed attempts to fight the state’s oil and gas law in court, Alfonso Rodriguez, M.D., is ready to sign a nondisclosure form to view a full list of ingredients in hydraulic fracturing fluid. If only someone could tell him where to find it. Read more at the  Hazleton Standard Speaker…..

https://gasvets.org/2015/04/06/752/

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Posted by on February 2, 2015
Filed Under: accidents, deaths, exposure, fracking, Gas Worker News, GasVet Studies, health impact survey, health impacts, health registry, hydraulic fracturing, jobs, worker deaths, worker harm

Tomblin Calls for Study of Increased Deaths from Gas Drilling Boom

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is calling for a study aimed at reversing the increase in workplace deaths that has accompanied the boom in natural gas drilling and production from the Marcellus Shale fields in Northern West Virginia. –

Read more at the Charleston Gazette….

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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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