[G Larry]

Discovery’s “Frozen Planet” updated in 2011 continues to pretend polar bear populations are dwindling and the polar ice caps are melting.

They do this in the full knowledge of the HUGE increases in Polar Bear populations over the last 50 years and the lack of any warming over the last 12 years.

Then go on to explain how the OIL COMPANIES don’t really mind the melt and the warming.....because it make their operations easier......

These clowns don’t give a damn about the truth or science.
They have an agenda to damn capitalism, energy production, and population growth, as evils that must be overcome.

[susannah59]

I'd vote for the drug lab, some other sort of leak, or the dumping of someone else's chemicals, too.

Never underestimate the power of suggestion: Oh, they said they smelled something bad and then felt sick; wait, I think I smell something too, and yes, there it is, a pain in my head!

I also don't underestimate the number of people hoping to "win the legal lottery" by signing on to a big-money lawsuit. The prospect of that can make healthy people develop all sorts of symptoms.

I'm not saying they weren't smelling something, or even having problems from it, but blaming it on drilling and fracking must seem like a win-win to the NPR folks: stop the eeeeevil oil/gas companies, and make them pay pay pay for "harming" people.

[Arrowhead1952]

But Porbin is skeptical that many people are getting sick from the drilling, which is commonly called "fracking."

Fracking is not part of the drilling process. It happens after the well is drilled straight down or horizontally.

[aruanan]

Sick From Fracking? Doctors, Patients Seek Answers

Poor dopes. Fracking has been going on for 40 years.

[Sea Parrot]

Oh ye, don’t know what it is, but lay the blame on those evil frackers.

Frac jobs have been standard procedure for enhancing flow of gas and oil in tight formations since the 1920s with no problems.

Now suddenly fracking is going to end the world as we know it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The activists have opened a “free medical clinic” south of Pittsburgh. They are running classified ads and are literally out there trolling for victims.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

...all of a sudden your tongue gets this metal taste on it...There’s a smelting plant down the road

I think I might see a connection...unless they are talking about the fish.

[Pietro]

In the first place Burgettstown is no bucolic rural area. That place was strip mined to bare bones years ago and there are still active mines in the area. Also as the article mentions the smelting plant down the road in Langeloth is Climax-Malib (sp?) and it has a smoke stack about 150' high; there's some badass juju in that place believe me. Not to mention old fabrication and industrial locations long since abandoned.

Trying to pin whatever is going on there to fraccing is really a stretch. Besides most of the fraccing in the area is towards the east of Burgettstown near Hickory and Chartiers..

[JimRed]

Now, no one knows whether the gas drilling has anything to do with the problems at the clinic. It could easily turn out to be something completely unrelated. There's a smelting plant down the road and old coal mines everywhere.

And there are lots of enviro-whackos who will deliberately release something smelly to try to make it appear that whatever activity they oppose as their cause du jour is causing problems. Never discount THAT possibility.

[kcvl]

B S !!!

http://www.energyfromshale.org/sites/default/files/Typical-Shale-Fracturing-Mixture-Makeup.pdf

[denydenydeny]

"People go from physician to physician, because 'nobody seemed to be able to treat this awful rash that I have,' or 'nobody seemed to be able to deal with my gastrointestinal pain that I have'".

Simple. Because it's psychosomatic.