Fracking boom

With massive reservoirs of oil and gas trapped in the rocks under our feet, the oil industry is eager to get fracking. But US evidence of chemical related deaths, soaring fatalities and over-exposure to deadly dust has raised seriously unhealthy questions. Evidence shows workers and the wider community are facing elevated exposures to known human carcinogens in the vicinity of fracking sites, including group 1 rated benzene and formaldehyde.

Hazards 126, April-June 2014.

 

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