All the way back in 2010, researchers had already found that: *
“We were unrelenting in our communications work, garnering a continuous drumbeat of sto- ries that emphasized the harms of fracking, spoke to the breadth of the opposition, and pres- sured the governor to ban it. Through our com- munications campaign, alongside the tremen- dous work of health professionals and scientists, the New York movement served to define frack- ing across the country and the world as a public health, environmental, and climate disaster.”
25% of fracking chemicals could cause cancer
37% could disrupt our endocrine systems
John Armstrong Frack Action Statewide Grassroots Coordinator
40-50% could affect nervous, immune, and cardiovascular systems
As one former DEC technician said in 2012, “If you were looking for a way to poison the drinking water supply, here in the north-east you couldn't find a more chillingly effective and thorough method of doing so than with hydraulic fracturing.” Other communities had already experienced this first-hand. The residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania became faces of the anti-fracking movement after a fracking company poisoned their drinking water supply. Residents-turned-activists began traveling the country to shed light on what they were experiencing. NYAF partnered with Dimock residents to share their stories with New Yorkers. We brought volunteers, donors, organizers, and elect- ed officials to Dimock and towns throughout Pennsylvania that had suffered similar harms.
*From Colborn et al. “Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective.” (September 2011)
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