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Proximity to fracking more than doubles odds of low birth weight babies.

January 5, 2014 By TXsharon

New study:

guinea pigStudy Shows Fracking Is Bad for Babies
By Mark Whitehouse Jan 4, 2014 3:58
Bloomberg View

…proximity to fracking increased the likelihood of low birth weight by more than half, from about 5.6 percent to more than 9 percent. The chances of a low Apgar score, a summary measure of the health of newborn children, roughly doubled, to more than 5 percent.

Whitenhouse writes that more study is needed. And what that means is that some families will participate in this grand fracking experiment without informed consent. Their babies will be guinea pigs in this experiment with public health.

Whitenhouse concludes with common sense.

Still, evidence that our demand for cheap energy could be doing irreversible harm to children should be reason for serious pause.

Either stop fracking or sign up now to enter your unborn child in a grand fracking experiment that could cause irreversible harm.

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  1. Jana DeGrand (@janadegrand) says

    January 5, 2014 at 10:59 am

    my neighbor, a breeder of top show dogs was lamenting that she has so many that have miscarriages now or just have stillbirths since she moved here. All the beautiful horse properties in Argyle are for sale, and have been for years now. Almost everyone I have spoken with says they do not breed the thoroughbreds in what used to be known as horse country anymore because all the mares cannot carry the foals to term. I know I am talking about animals, I’m deflecting because I just do not want to think about our babies. Thank you for putting out the hard facts. We all know it here in the shale. The deformed wildlife. The wildlife that just drops dead for no reason, the mass insect kills near releases. We know it is happening to us, but we can’t face the thought of children, babies, and unborn. Those things drive me crazy. I watch Twitter feeds and those energy folks get some sort of rush making those of us who care angry. They just don’t get that we are watching our babies suffer, so we resort to improper language usage in the heat of the moment.

    • TXsharon says

      January 5, 2014 at 11:27 am

      They get it, Jana. They just don’t care.

    • Another Alberta Neighbour says

      January 5, 2014 at 12:50 pm

      Energy industry upper management utter profanity in the heat of the moment too, and worse, foolishly demand it erased.

      “Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Encana gets “worst energy sector story” of 2013!”

      http://www.ernstversusencana.ca/do-you-kiss-your-mother-with-that-mouth-encana-gets-worst-energy-sector-story-of-2013

      If encana top dogs swear like this in response to valid questions from investors, imagine what they say to real estate agents when their frac encroached, multi-million dollar homes around Calgary don’t sell.

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