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The Florida Petroleum Council and Associated Industries of Florida are backing the GOP-sponsored bills, saying fracking would boost domestic energy supplies and bring economic growth. Advocates also argue the oil and gas industry has operated safely and responsibly in the state for decades and will continue to do so.īut groups opposing fracking say the industry relies heavily on outside workers, not local hires. The process involves the injection of mass quantities of water along with chemicals and sand under immense pressure to fracture underground rock formations and release oil and gas.

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“It’s a clear case of a small, well-connected industry running a bill against what is in the interests and the opinions of the majority of Floridians,” said Soto, one of the sponsors of the fracking ban legislation.įracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is common in some states but has occurred only once in Florida. And he pointed out the GOP bills would render the bans moot, handing to the state all authority to regulate the oil and gas industry. Darren Soto, D-Orlando, said more than half of Florida’s population lives in cities and counties that have passed fracking bans or similar measures. The Senate bill passed its first committee stop last week. Ray Rodrigues of Estero, has cleared two committee stops and is set for a third Thursday. GOP-backed bills that would regulate fracking (HB 191 and SB 318) have gotten far more traction in the Republican-led Legislature. But none of the bills have been heard in committee so far this session. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, would put a fracking ban before voters for inclusion in the state constitution. The Democrat-backed bills they’re supporting (SB 166 and HB 19) would ban fracking statewide. Kemble and Stevens, both of whom have appeared in anti-fracking documentaries, joined environmentalists from across the state for the rally, hosted by ReThink Energy Florida, Sierra Club Florida, the Floridians Against Fracking Coalition and other groups. “If that water’s safe in the areas they’re fracking, come and drink it,” he said. 'Fracking,' as the industry calls it, involves injecting a million gallons or more of water and chemicals deep underground to pry out gas thats locked away in tight spaces.

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Steingraber’s full thread here.Craig Stevens, whose land in Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania, also lies near fracking sites, invited lawmakers who “don’t get” the dangers of fracking to sample his water. Is anyone okay with these data? I’m not.” “Personal comment: I’ve been reading fracking and public health data pretty much daily for 10 years, and I still cry. “Back to the results: ‘We find consistent and robust evidence that drilling shale gas wells negatively impacts both drinking water quality and infant health.’ No new chemicals have been added to the Maximum Contaminant Level list for 20 years, nor were limits set with prenatal or infant development in mind. The federal government has legal limits for just over 90 contaminants in drinking water.

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The authors thus conclude that the infant health harms they found were either due to increases in regulated water contaminants below the threshold level OR ‘unregulated contaminants that we, unfortunately, cannot observe.'”ĭr. “Notably, the increases in drinking water contaminants near fracking activities documented by the research team often were not sufficient to trigger regulatory violations. Preterm birth, she added, is the leading cause of disability in the United States. The results, she added, showed that prenatal exposure to a fracking well drilled within one kilometer (or 0.62 miles) of water sources, along with drilling near a mother’s home, raises risks for both preterm birth and low birthweight. The study combined the data with dates of infant births, measurement of water contaminants, and the timing of drilling and fracking activities. Steingraber noted that this is a first of its kind study that used exact locations of mothers’ residences, gas wells, and public drinking water sources. So, here's a link to the goddamn abstract and bc I have a PhD and a full-text pre-proof, I'll do an whole thread but as a mom: THIS IS ENOUGH NEW RESEARCH: #Fracking in PA contaminates drinking water where pregnant women live and harms their infants. The study found evidence that drilling shale gas wells negatively impacts both the drinking water quality and the health of infants, indicating large social costs of water pollution. Sandra Steingraber shared a thread on Twitter along with the link to the study. New research has shown that fracking in Pennsylvania has contaminated the drinking water where pregnant women live.

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