Health Implications Of Fracking

Fracking can be devastating to the environment and the health of the community that lives near any fracking operation. There have been many cases documented where families that either live near a fracking site or that have even allowed fracking companies to frack on their land, having unusual symptoms that are related back to fracking. These symptoms can be but not limited to fatigue, burning eyes, dermatologic irritation, headaches, upper respiratory problems and many more. Along with these health risks that fracking causes directly, there are other long term harms that fracking contributes to. Air pollution is one of them, when you burn natural gas that is extracted by means of fracking you are releasing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. These greenhouse gasses cause many health problems for younger kids and older adults, mainly upper respiratory problems like asthma due to the pollution of the air through the burning of the fossil fuels.
Even though we know that the burning of fossil fuels negatively impacts our environment and our health, we rely …show more content…
The Pennsylvania act 13 of 2012 stats that drilling companies are not required to share information about the components or concentrations of the chemicals that they use, these are deemed proprietary trade secrets. This act also requires health care professional to submit paper work in order to obtain information of the chemicals that are being used as well as a written consent confidentiality agreement. What this act does is slow down the nurses and other health care professional that are treating the illnesses that fracking is imposing as well as hindering the development of effective, evidence based treatments to all the