Clinton and Fracking

[EndElectoral]

The environment seems to take a back seat at most of the debates with a courtesy question or two, but little actual in depth discussion. One of the issues of which little has been discussed is fracking and it's consequences.

Below is a Yale Study on the impacts of fracking, and the second is a motherjones article on Clinton's position on fracking while SOS.

http://news.yale.edu/2016/01/06/toxins-found-fracking-fluids-and-wastewater-study-shows

Toxins found in fracking fluids and wastewater, study shows
By Michael Greenwood

In an analysis of more than 1,000 chemicals in fluids used in and created by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Yale School of Public Health researchers found that many of the substances have been linked to reproductive and developmental health problems, and the majority had undetermined toxicity due to insufficient information.

Further exposure and epidemiological studies are urgently needed to evaluate potential threats to human health from chemicals found in fracking fluids and wastewater created by fracking, said the research team in their paper, published Jan. 6 in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental and Epidemiology.

The research team evaluated available data on 1,021 chemicals used in fracking, a process that recovers oil and natural gas from deep within the ground by using a mixture of hydraulic-fracturing fluids that can contain hundreds of chemicals. The process creates significant amounts of wastewater and fractures the bedrock, posing a potential threat to both surface water and underground aquifers that supply drinking water, note the researchers.

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“We focused on reproductive and developmental toxicity because these effects may be early indicators of environmental hazards. Gaps in our knowledge highlight the need to improve our understanding of the potential adverse effects associated with these compounds,” said Elise Elliott, a public health doctoral student and the paper’s first author.

The researchers determined that wastewater produced by fracking may be even more toxic than the fracking fluids themselves. This led the researchers to conclude that more focus is needed to study not just what goes into the well, but what chemicals and by-products are generated during the fracking process.

and the motherjones article

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron

How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World
A trove of secret documents details the US government's global push for shale gas.
—By Mariah Blake

ONE ICY MORNING in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking. The previous year, Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying placards that read "Stop fracking with our water" and "Chevron go home." Bulgaria's parliament responded by voting overwhelmingly for a fracking moratorium.

Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance.

[Punkingal]

1. I think fracking is probably why she lost Oklahoma to Bernie.

[Scuba]

2. Apparently, poisoning our drinking water is now considered "progressive."

[jeff47]

7. No, the "progressive" part is when you show up later, outraged at the poisoning. (nt)

[Octafish]

3. Dick Cheney likes fracking, too.

"Scientific advisory panels at the Department of Energy and the EPA have enumerated ways the industry could improve and have called for modest steps, such as establishing maximum contaminant levels allowed in water for all the chemicals used in fracking. Unfortunately, these recommendations do not address the biggest loophole of all. In 2005 Congress—at the behest of then Vice President Dick Cheney, a former CEO of gas driller Halliburton—exempted fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Congress needs to close this so-called Halliburton loophole, as a bill co-sponsored by New York State Representative Maurice Hinchey would do. The FRAC Act would also mandate public disclosure of all chemicals used in fracking across the nation."

-- Scientific American, Nov. 2011, "Safety First, Fracking Second"

[JEB]

5. The chemicals used in fracking will be disclosed at the same time

as Clinton's speech to Goldman Sachs. Corruption rules the day.

[HumanityExperiment]

4. HRC is a joke...

When it comes to environmental issues involving fossil fuels she's republican light and then some...

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/the-holes-in-hillary-clintons-climate-plan-120682

[amborin]

6. yes, it's a 1000 Flints, all over USA and the world