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Want Cancer? Move to Texas.

October 17, 2007 By TXsharon

Oh boy! This is discouraging. Out of 254 Texas counties, Wise County is number 33. Of Course Harris is #1 with all the oil and gas refineries there that’s no surprise. The Barnett Shale drilling has contributed significantly to Wise County air pollution. WATCH OUT COWTOWN!

#2 Dallas
#5 Tarrant
#7 Denton
#29 Parker
#33 Wise
#44 Cooke

Here’s a handy map that shows the risk of getting cancer by area

Number of People Living in Areas where the Estimated Cancer Risk from HAPs is Greater than 1 in 10,000


RECENT AIR TOXICS STUDIES CONFIRM DIESEL EMISSIONS POSE A SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT

That would be diesel emissions like these from a drilling rig:

Now imagine Fort Worth’s air once Chesapeake gets all those drilling rigs fired up. You might be the next pollution winner.

Cancer Risk from Diesel Particulate:
National and Metropolitan Area Estimates for the United States

Diesel engines are significant contributors to air pollution. Moreover, the adverse
health impacts of diesel pollution are dire, posing a serious threat to public health
nationwide, and especially in urban areas. … Diesel exhaust contains over 40 chemicals that are listed by EPA and California as toxic air contaminants, known human carcinogens, probable human carcinogens, reproductive toxicants or endocrine disrupters.

Also see

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Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

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Filed Under: Barnett Shale, global warming, oil and gas drilling. pollution

Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    October 29, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    Sharon, nice to know that you and I live in the two most toxic states….

    Costa Rica anyone?

  2. Anonymous says

    October 29, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    Our bad air has more to do with TXI & TXU than all of the gas drilling combined. Yes, drilling can add to the problem, but it is not the main problem. Also, the drilling rigs get picked up & moved once they are done. They do not sit there belching smoke forever!

  3. TXsharon says

    October 29, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    In our N. TX area recent studies made by UNT and a university in California determined that the dramatic increase in hydrocarbon pollution was indeed caused by drilling.

    Yes, the drilling rig moves. It is moved to another place by a diesel truck that belches diesel fumes into the air. When the rig reaches it’s new destination, it begins belching again.

    According to the RRC, 240 wells are drilled each month in the Barnett Shale.

    In the 5 years prior to May 2006, there were 1800 wells drilled in Denton County alone. (Please note Denton’s poor air quality score.)

    However, threats to our air don’t come only from the drilling rig, some of the most highly dangerous fumes escape constantly from the valves at the wellhead for as long as the well is operating. And there is flaring and other forms of pollution.

    Please provide links to substantiate your claim about TXI and TXU. They are both serious polluters of our air, for sure, but I doubt they are doing as much damage in the North Texas area as the Barnett Shale drilling.

  4. Anonymous says

    October 29, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    http://www.txpeer.org/toxictour/txi.html

    48% of all DFW pollution from this one plant. That means the gas drillers aren’t to blame. Sorry to bust your bubble Sharon but please point the finger at someone else.

  5. BHUVAN CHAND JUYAL says

    December 14, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    Today global warming news is very danger news for earth life. Now this global warming issues takes big picture for this world. Now we are aware about this issue.

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