Tuesday, January 31

Mining threat to Manning

MANNING Clean Water Action Group (MCWAG) will renew their efforts to raise community awareness of the growing threat of mining to the Manning Valley.

This follows the release of a study by the University of Massachusetts.
 
The study, Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health by Dr Michelle Bamberger and Professor Robert E Oswald, published in New Solutions: a journal of environmental and occupational health policy by the University of Massachusetts, investigates a number of animal and health incidents related to gas extraction in six US states. It found that stock and domestic animals died, got sick or had a higher number of still births and deformities when exposed to chemicals emanating from gas extraction.
 
The study finds that fracking and waste products from gas extraction are implicated in the deaths of quite a lot of livestock and companion animals, still births and deformities. It also details links between fracking pollution and human health.
 
This has implications for Australia given many of the chemicals and techniques for coal seam gas here are common with unconventional gas extraction in the US.


Manning River Times

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