It is rare that I
decide to post two articles in one day, but on WKBW and WIVB (I
believe) I saw an issue that just had to be addressed.
It deals with the
Town of Amherst and their impending decision (today – November 2nd)
to use fracking wastewater on their roads to deal with icy road
conditions.
This is something
that anyone that live in Amherst, in the surrounding areas, or
downstream from Amherst, needs to speak out against.
Strongly.
Fracking water is
contaminated with cancer causing chemicals and radioactive elements.
The cancer causing chemicals are treated as “trade secrets” - no
thank you Dick Cheney - so we are not allowed to know what is in
them.
In the process of
fracking, when the deliberately contaminated water is injected into
the ground and then suctioned back up, radioactive chemicals are
brought up with the water.
The water is so
polluted that even the Niagara Falls Waste Treatment Plant admitted
in an article in the Buffalo News some years ago
that it can not clean it up. The Niagara Falls plant is one of the best in the US. And they can't clean it.
How safe is it? Really?
In
an Op-Ed article some years ago, a farmer in North Java told how a
containment pool of fracking water burst open and flooded his land.
It killed it. He used to grow hay on it. He can't grow anything on
it now. The land is dead. He
now has to buy hay for his farm. (Wonder why milkprices keep
climbing? How many times has this happened?)
And
that cancer causing chemical wastewater is what Amherst wants to
spray on its roads.
When
that wastewater gets into the streams, who is going to clean it up?
And keep it out of Lake Erie?
What
will happen to children that play in snow that is plowed off the road
and has those chemicals in it?
People
of Amherst, Buffalo, Williamsville, and all over Erie County need
to stand up and speak out against the use of fracking wastewater on
the streets.
If
it is safe, let the CEOs of the fracking companies use it in their
communities.
Just
keep it out of ours.
All
out against wastewater on OUR streets!
Expect an update.
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