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Article Source: Climate Progress OrganizationAmerican Petroleum Institute apparently fine with dumping cancer-causing radioactive waste off Louisiana coast
The New York Times has a multi-bombshell piece on natural gas fracking, "Regulation Lax as Gas Wells' Tainted Water Hits Rivers." CP has done a great many pieces on the potential benefits of fracking — and the potential dangers (see "Getting to the bottom of natural gas fracking and links below).
This is a link to an "article" (posted for the pic) I posted in Nov.
The way to view this is to right click on the image, save it to your desktop, open and ZOOM in to see the data.
#2 - Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:13 PM ESTBig Oil did not want this information out. Thankfully, Joel Fox' film Gasland has stirred interest.
Cheney let them out of all clean water and air regs to do this during his infamous energy meeting where the people had no voice.
#3 - Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:41 PM ESTCheney let them out of all clean water and air regs
I am not surprised nor should anyone else .. considering his 'bed' partners..
The Split Estate is another GREAT doc on fracking and the damage its does to the community.
NY Times Blows Story on Drilling "Dangers"
UPDATE: Further in the article, the Times uncovers what must certainly be some sort of conspiracy.
A confidential industry study from 1990, conducted for the American Petroleum Institute, concluded that “using conservative assumptions,” radium in drilling wastewater dumped off the Louisiana coast posed “potentially significant risks” of cancer for people who eat fish from those waters regularly.
Ooooo… a confidential study. Sounded pretty shady to me, so I contacted a representative of the American Petroleum Institute to find out why they would be keeping such blockbuster information secret from the public. As it turns out, that study has been public for almost two decades and the results aren’t quite what the Times implies.
The API study mentioned in the NYT article was not confidential. In fact,it was turned into API Publication 4532 and published in 1991. Furthermore, it discusses the health risk associated with radium radiation and concludes, “The number of excess cancers predicted per year is comparable to the number expected to result from background concentrations of radium. Because of the many conservative assumptions incorporated into this screening-level analysis, it can be concluded that the risks associated with the discharge of produced water to coastal Louisiana is small.”
Was anything in this article fact checked before they ran it?
#4 - Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:08 PM ESTJust realized that I linked to my seed instead of the original article feel free to delete and I'll repost with the other address.
Not a problem .. tsk tsk tsk.. (shaking head) smirk .. just do not do that again.. lol
Ya, I have a bad habit of opening way too many tabs in a browser/multiple browsers and it can get a little confusing with all the copy/pasting...
I was sending a birthday greetings to my sister .. and instead sent it to my brother..
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