Forbs Magazine is not known for its advocacy of the common good. MediaBiasFactCheck.com says, “We … rate them Mostly Factual in reporting rather than High due to some misleading or false stories related to climate science.” So, we have some skepticism when a feature article suggests that the health problems attributed to fracking may be offset by the generalized benefits of fracking to local economies. It is a sorry state of affairs when the marginal economic benefit of fracking to locals is sufficient to improve their lives enough to show up as more and healthier babies.
Nevertheless, here’s the story. You decide if this report is propaganda or a genuine reason to relax prohibitions on fracking.
Fracking uses “proprietary chemicals” whose names or chemical formulas, can not be shared with healthcare professionals if a worker, neighbor or any one else is exposed to them. Chemicals such as benzene, xylene, ethyl alcohol, toluene, sand, emulsifiers, buffers, surfactants, and acids. VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) such as benzene, xylene, ethyl alcohol & toluene can not be filtered or distilled and separated from water. They are anisotropic mixtures rendering water permanently ruined. These VOC’s are poisonous and carcinogenic. That is unhealthy, unnecessary and a crime. We don’t need to use fracking to extract oil and natural gas. They need to remain in ground. We have the alternative, renewable energy to meet our energy needs without fossil fuels or nuclear power. Go to https://thesolutionsproject.org/ for plans for all 50 states and 146 Nations all over the planet. Contrary to the propaganda of the dying, profit addicted fossil fuel, for profit electric utilities, and greed addict nuclear power industries, we will not “starve and freeze in the dark,” nor “wreck our economy in the process.”