Gas drilling emissions toxins in residents' blood, urine (Dallas, Fort Worth: 2015, how much)

[northlakemetro]

Environmental studies have shown that there could be terrible health consequences to living in a community surrounded by gas drilling.

Many suburbs around DFW have gas drilling, including Coppell, Lewisville, Trophy Club, Arlington and others. Certain suburbs such as Flower Mound have enacted severe restrictions. Here is another recent study showing that toxins from the drilling can be found in blood and urine:


Tests detect Barnett Shale emissions toxins in Dish residents' blood, urine | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News
All of this drilling and the air and water pollution caused by it makes certain parts of DFW less desirable places.




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[northlakemetro]

Anyone know which cities in or around North Texas do not have any gas drilling?

[loves2read]

there have to be other samples from other areas or you don't know how much of this IS the nearness to the gathering systems and how much could be the result of the over-pollution of the entire world...

what about baseline blood/urine samples for people who don't live in that area???
from people who live in Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton, Granbury, Garland, Flower Mound, Decatur, Bridgeport, Tyler, Ranger, Seguin, LLevelland--and yes even in Beaumont or Texas City or La Porte where there are big petrochemical plants...



this information warrents further study but without something to compare it TOO--you can't make a judgement about its cause...
and yes--I would definitely want to test children as a sample group because
1--they have been less exposed to years of random exposure and
2--they are more likely to have stayed within a smaller geographic area so their results might more specifically reflect influence from the NG toxins in that area

[FarNorthDallas]

I thought the news reported that the folks with the raised toxins in their blood were all smokers.

[lh_newbie]

Originally Posted by northlakemetro

Anyone know which cities in or around North Texas do not have any gas drilling?

I thought the Barnett Shale was mostly in the Western portion of the DFW area. We live in N-E Dallas and we are not in an area with natural gas. My parents and brother live in Grapevine and they were both approached by natural gas companies last year.

[loves2read]

the article in today's ftw star telegram reports that the elevated levels of certain toxins were in some people who are smokers--and that is normal elevation for that category...

frankly the Star Telegram is not doing anyone any good by reporting findings that are less than scientific in how they were taken and what they might mean...

if you find someone with blood on his shoes does that mean you are looking at a murderer????

too little info, too much hype...
some people are just paranoid about spreading how dangerous emissions from gas wells/processing equip can be...while that might be true in the general--
as in smoking causes cancer
you have to do more to prove the specifics...there are people who smoke and never develop cancer--there are people who don't smoke who do...
it is not as simple as black/white type of cause/effect...

[case44]

Originally Posted by northlakemetro

Environmental studies have shown that there could be terrible health consequences to living in a community surrounded by gas drilling.

Many suburbs around DFW have gas drilling, including Coppell, Lewisville, Trophy Club, Arlington and others. Certain suburbs such as Flower Mound have enacted severe restrictions. Here is another recent study showing that toxins from the drilling can be found in blood and urine:

Tests detect Barnett Shale emissions toxins in Dish residents' blood, urine | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News
All of this drilling and the air and water pollution caused by it makes certain parts of DFW less desirable places.

I live here and have driven by those places, and the last time I checked, I am just fine. Not a thing to worry about.

[northlakemetro]

"Some regulators and many environmentalists worry that the fluids injected into many U.S. gas fields could be contaminating drinking water with benzene, methanol, and other toxic substances."
Does Natural-Gas Drilling Endanger Water Supplies? - BusinessWeek

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"Gas drilling creates several kinds of pollution.

Carbon dioxide and soot are created by the engines used to power pipeline compressors.

Methane, the primary ingredient in natural gas, is a powerful greenhouse gas. It can escape from leaky pipes and equipment, and it is also sometimes vented into the air when wells are being completed.

Volatile organic chemicals, including hazardous chemicals such as benzene and formaldehyde, are released from leaky tank batteries, where crude oil is separated from natural gas.

The year-round average for all types of drilling-related pollution is 191 tons per day. In the summer, when North Texas' air pollution is at its greatest, the emissions can rise to 307 tons per day because the heat causes more evaporation."

Read more: Study of natural gas drilling air pollution at Texas site released | McClatchy

[dgz]

Originally Posted by northlakemetro

Anyone know which cities in or around North Texas do not have any gas drilling?

The gas drilling that uses the hydraulic fracturing--commonly associated with leakage of toxic chemicals such as benzene-- is in the Barnet Shale area, also called the Ft. Worth Basin. It extends from the western edges of Dallas, then crossing Tarrant County and westwards. There is a group in Flower Mound that is concerned because Williams Drilling is proposing a transport or collection facility there.

People are facing similar contamination issues in upstate NY near the Marcellus Shale and in western Colorado.

For more details on what is happening here in North TX:

Flower Mound Citizens Against Urban Drilling

[codytravers]