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I’ve requested time after time of Arlington officials to address the public health risk of being near drilling during the intense, active phases of well site activity and get ZERO response. Once I actually spoke live to our Public Health Authority official, Dr Simmons, and taped the failed conversation… http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/letter-to-trey-yelverton-arlington-city-manager-on-chesapeake-risk-management/
Here is an Ohio doctor who is being proactive to warn people to remove themselves from harms way …this advice was also given to me by an industry executive too.
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Subject: A SMART & CARING DOCTOR Cluck and Cynthia Simmons needs to emmulate regarding public health and drillingSo I’ll blog about this article and feature our head in sand Arlington leadership.—– Forwarded Message —-

Debbie Ziegler Lambert 7:36am Jan 26 A SMART AND CARING DOCTOR!!!Ohio loves its Utica shale for jobs, economic growth and energy, but Dr. Deborah Cowden sees a darker side.Cowden is a family practice doctor who is convinced that air emissions from that drilling, especially the new large wells being fractured, or fracked, pose a big threat to site neighbors in Ohio.
She shares her concerns up to four times a month at grass-root meetings across eastern Ohio. She will speak in Portage County at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at King of Glory Church on state Route 303 in Streetsboro.
Cowden’s advice to Ohioans: If there is drilling within a half-mile of your house, get out and stay out as much as possible during the drilling process.
Youngsters should be kept away as much as possible to minimize exposure to as many as 78 toxic chemicals in the air, says Cowden, who lives in Loudonville in Ashland County and works for the Knox County Health Department.
I commented on this article …“The part about the EPA making emission controls to capture 95% does not help on the piece they missed regarding the initial stages of flowback. The industry standard is to use rural method, OPEN HATCH flowback tanks. The urban standard yet to be adopted by Arlington drillers should be to use pressurized, ventless flowback tanks. Shame on Arlington officials to NOT enforce Best Available Emission Control Technolgoies by my family….and shame on them and Chesapeake for not giving me as requested dates for when they flowback the wells so my family would have had an opportunity to leave the area…I made these two videos showing how I was withheld this information”….
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I live at ground zero for urban drilling.
We have about 60 padsites in our 99 sq mile town here in Arlington TX.Our state and local governement will not enforce these two laws....
1) TEX LG. CODE ANN. A§ 253.005 : Texas Statutes – Section 253.005: LEASE OF OIL, GAS, OR MINERAL LAND
“(c) A well may not be drilled in the thickly settled part of the municipality..”2. Texas Administrative Code, Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 101, Subchapter A,
Rule 101.4, Environmental Quality, NuisanceNo person shall discharge from any source whatsoever one or more
air contaminants or combinations thereof, in such concentration and
of such duration as are or may tend to be injurious to or to adversely
affect human health or welfare, animal life, vegetation, or property, or
as to interfere with the normal use and enjoyment of animal life, vegetation, or property.
---------------------------------We had a drill spill in Lake Arlington, our drinking source, a couple of years ago. We also have about 100 drilling laterals under our lake that are at migration risk for seismic events and or cement failures.
We have had maybe a dozen gas release emission events over the last couple of years that I am aware of.
The following are the items lacking in our URBAN oil and gas drilling ordinance….................
1. Use electric rigs & and use nondiesel compressors and fracking and lift compressors and compressor stations. Blowdowns of compressors whose excess goes to the storage tanks should have Vapor Recovery Systems rather than venting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLw_o2P355EYmh7onTqiwcEA&feature=player_embedded&v=js5vVSpWwEw
2. Video tape ALL cement casing pours when it comes back up to the top through the annulus so that there is proof of an even pour and ensure all wells have electric bond log tests.
3. All drilling mud farming (private & commercial) and brine “road spraying” is subject to open records of water & soil test results...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTtI94GGd8&feature=player_embedded Brine spraying
4. We need the industry to invent technology to keep the toxic, silica dust on the padsite-those pathetic pillow case looking socks aren’t getting the job done. OSHA and NIOSH are aware of the problem...
http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2012/05/silica-fracking/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF7fkgzmgO0&feature=youtu.be5. Mandate ventless, emission free flowback tanks by using pressurized flowback tanks instead of open hatch frack tanks....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdKoeBvUHys&feature=player_embedded
6. Global Warming isn't waiting 2.5 years for the EPA mandated Green Completions equipment.... no venting or flaring period...wait for the pipeline.
7. The pipeline should be in place FIRST before fracturing so that flowback doesn’t sit in the ground for months festering bacterial sulfide growth to sour and damage the well and sicken people.....
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/slammed-with-sudden-nausea-from-flowback-odors-business-womans-blood-pressure-soars-after-vomiting/
8. The setback away from people should be substantial. Rural method drilling is not acceptable in urban areas. An environmental tester who has a Phd said that the health effects are being seen downwind from about 1,800 – 2,500 feet. Local and state gov. need to test for methane leaks with FLIR cameras.
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/envir-tester-ph-d-master-public-health-on-fracking-emissions-fallout-distance-1800-2500-feet-of-the-downwind-effect/
9. Have zero tolerance for underinspected, or faked Waste Disposal Injection Well casing pressure tests. Don't risk eventual migration of toxic fluids into our drinking supplies.....
http://www.propublica.org/article/trillion-gallon-loophole-lax-rules-for-drillers-that-inject-pollutants
10. State entities overseeing oil and gas should regulate how close old wells are to new wells....
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/chain-reaction-well-explosions-arlingtons-old-mineral-well-downtown-to-contemplate/
Lets elect officials that will ensure a protective Oil & Gas Drilling oversight. This is in our “collective” power so we must all become active to be proactive because reactive measures are too costly.
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Keep yelling from the rooftops, Kim! You have been right all along!
Comment came in today, 1/27/2013 as “We have a gas well literally in our backyard. I have ADD and have noticed that over the past year my brain is not functioning properly. I have confusion and my concentration is absolutely horrible. I have had more headaches this past year than I have ever had in my entire life. Nosebleeds as well. I thought it was just me depressedMy husband has become really lethargic and depressed. He used to work out every day and now he can barely find the energy to stay up until 8:30 pm. He complains of headaches as well. We both just feel awful all the time. Our kids suffer from headaches as well. I have put off researching gas well effects for fear that this is what I would find. I read an article years ago about a man in Colorado who became deathly ill. The article went on to say that there is really absolutely NOTHING we can do. We have no rights. Its sad. They are killing us!” http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/barnett-shale-arlington-tx-health-effects-diary-natural-gas-urban-drilling-emissions-and-the-canary-effect/