Texas Sharon has an excellent blog, Bluedaze. She has been intimately involved in the gas drilling problem in Texas since at least the early 2000s. She helped me get started on my journey as an anti-fracking activist. In this post she relates the stories of the Parr family and the Ruggierios who were neighbors surrounded by gas wells and the illnesses they all experienced.
Read much more here.
Flowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and Safety (2011)
Daily Kos coverage of this topic
Showing posts with label health hazards of chemical exposure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health hazards of chemical exposure. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Wilma Subra: Who Is She And Why Do We Need To Know?
Wilma Subra, a diminutive grandmother, has long challenged the corporate polluters in one of the nation's most toxic regions.
At 69, Subra is still working to rein in environmental degradation along Cancer Alley, an eye-watering corridor of more than 150 industrial facilities along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that produce a quarter of the nation's petrochemicals. She's a winner of a MacArthur "Genius grant" who totes her grandchildren to public hearings, giving them crayons to scribble on the back of scientific papers. She's a fighter who has taken on refineries, chemical manufacturers and oil and gas companies, including BP over its cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.
The police asked the right question.
"Can you think of anyone who would want to do you harm?" investigators asked Wilma Subra, trying to understand who might have fired a gun at the diminutive grandmother.
Read the full article here.
Vote for her to receive 2012 Louisiana's Cox Conserves Heroes here.
At 69, Subra is still working to rein in environmental degradation along Cancer Alley, an eye-watering corridor of more than 150 industrial facilities along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that produce a quarter of the nation's petrochemicals. She's a winner of a MacArthur "Genius grant" who totes her grandchildren to public hearings, giving them crayons to scribble on the back of scientific papers. She's a fighter who has taken on refineries, chemical manufacturers and oil and gas companies, including BP over its cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.
The police asked the right question.
"Can you think of anyone who would want to do you harm?" investigators asked Wilma Subra, trying to understand who might have fired a gun at the diminutive grandmother.
Read the full article here.
Vote for her to receive 2012 Louisiana's Cox Conserves Heroes here.
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