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The Physicians for Responsible Medicine’s Compendium Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking

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The Physicians for Responsible Medicine (www.PSR.org) have complied scientific studies related to the impacts of fracking. The conclusion is that the technology as done today nation wide, has inherent deleterious health and environmental impacts.

There is no such thing as safe fracking!!! From health impacts, to contamination of drinking water, methane gas pollution, geological agitation, increased earthquakes, the compendium PSR has created should be used by every State and County fighting to place a complete moratorium on all fractured rock gas extraction.

Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking
(Using Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction), Fourth Edition, November 17, 2016

USGS links rise in earthquakes to oil & gas wastewater disposal

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USGS links rise in earthquakes to oil & gas wastewater disposal

U.S. government scientists have identified 17 areas in eight states that have seen an increase in earthquakes triggered by human practices.

Earthquake activity in the central and eastern United States has increased significantly since 2009 and this has been linked to the disposal of oil and gas wastewater by injecting it into deep wells.

The new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers a comprehensive assessment of the hazard levels associated with induced earthquakes in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas.