Posted: Monday, November 21, 2011 9:00 am | Updated: 9:54 am, Mon Nov 21, 2011.
By Sarah Meehan Capital New Service | 0 comments
WASHINGTON — Critics have blamed hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for environmental disturbances including landscape degradation, air pollution and groundwater contamination — conditions which may affect the health of surrounding areas. But the jury is still out on whether these claims are valid.
“We still see it as very early days of the process here. … At this point, we’re still collecting data,” said Samuel Lesko, a Northeast Regional Cancer Institute physician who is exploring fracking’s health impacts on Pennsylvanians. “We’re trying to be very broad about it since we don’t know what types of illnesses might be attributed to these activities.”
Although the effects of fracking remain undefined, its threats are gaining credence as drilling creeps closer to Garrett and Allegany Counties.
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