Why did Cheney make gas drilling exempt from the Clean Air and Water Acts. This is why! (VIDEO)

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To White House January 28, 2012

Why did Cheney make gas drilling exempt from the Clean Air and Water Acts. This is why!

Carl Stiles of Bradford County, PA passed away yesterday. He had been fighting health issues ever since finding high levels of barium and arsenic in their well water, and fought hard and suffered much in the last 2 years, has lost the fight tonight. Stiles had intestinal cancer which he blames on Chesapeake’s gas drilling. He and his wife abandoned their home last November at the urging of a toxicologist who found barium, arsenic, and VOCs (volatile organic chemicals) in Carl’s blood. Strontium, uranium and radium were found in their water. They were told to expect to get leukemia within two years. Carl did not have that long.

Your inclusion of shale gas as a panacea for all our woes in the State of the Union speech was reckless and ignorant. You will cause the death of thousands soon and millions down the road if you do not immediately stop this insane process.

There is no reason for it except greed. With a bit of patience, common sense and true concern for the well being of our people, we can follow Germany's example and get off poisonous fuels- nuclear and fossil fossil - forever.

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Some call it murder - What do you think?

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Dear All,

Carl Stiles, who stayed with his fiance, Jude, at my house last year
after his home was contaminated, passed away yesterday. He had been
fighting health issues ever since finding high levels of barium and
arsenic in their well water, and fought hard and suffered much in the
last 2 years, has lost the fight tonight.

His widow, Jude, asked that memorial donations be made to GDAC.
I thought you would be touched.

- paula

Carl Stiles had intestinal cancer which he blames on Chesapeake's gas drilling. He and his wife abandoned their home last November at the urging of a toxicologist who found barium, arsenic, and VOCs (volatile organic chemicals) in Carl's blood. Strontium, uranium and radium were found in their water. They've been told to expect to get leukemia within two years."
http://waterandmoreblog.com/2011/06/21/gas-drilling-disrupts-lives-endangers-...
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How many innocent people have to suffer for the greed of the industry? How many people's families have to be completely destroyed before anyone truly does anything about this 'horror' and 'catastrophe' called hydraulic fracturing?

We say BAN IT NOW!

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Fluid from hydraulic fracturing, a mixture of water and toxic chemicals, is harmful to us and our water supply. This chemical cocktail includes; formaldehyde, ethylene glycol, hydrocarbons, glycol ethers, diesel fuel that contains benzene, toluene, and other chemicals. These chemicals have known negative health effects on the respiratory, neurological, central nervous systems, and can cause cancer.

These fracking fluids are injected into and near water resources resulting in contamination of our wells and watersheds. Communities are also at risk because the trucks containing these chemicals leak and spill. Likewise, the chemicals and fracking fluids are evaporated off at drilling sites. We must stand up together and say: STOP FRACKING THE MARCELLUS SHALE!