Fracking Poses Serious Risk to Livestock, Warns Expert...
Source: The Independent
Fracking for gas and oil in the British countryside poses such a significant risk to livestock that a moratorium should be imposed on the industry until its impact on food safety can be assessed, a leading researcher has warned.
Professor Robert Oswald, co-author of the first study into links between hydraulic fracturing and sickness in farm animals, said his findings of deaths and deformities in American livestock are so alarming that Britain should halt growth of the practice while further research is conducted...
Among the incidents investigated by Professor Oswald and a colleague was a leak in Louisiana of waste water from fracking – the process to force gas from rock by blasting it with a chemical fluid – which allegedly left 17 cows dead from respiratory failure. In Pennsylvania, a herd suffered a 50 per cent stillbirth rate after cows grazed in a field contaminated with chemicals spilling from a waste pit....
The scientist said that all fracking should be halted in Britain until a testing programme is put in place to assess the impact on farmland, livestock and food supplies of the chemical cocktail used to force gas and oil from shale deposits. Campaigners have said an array of chemicals, including carcinogens, is deployed during fracking. Unlike in the US, British operators must release details of the chemicals they use...
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fracking-poses-serious-risk-to-livestock-warns-expert-8822746.html
Hmmmm...
...Gotta wonder where all that meat & milk from our exposed cattle ends up. Of course our government (which promotes fracking) wouldn't let any any of it end up our our tables.
