{"id":177331,"date":"2019-10-18T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/18\/and-yet-hickenlooper-literally-drank-fracking-fluid\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:38:00","slug":"and-yet-hickenlooper-literally-drank-fracking-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/18\/and-yet-hickenlooper-literally-drank-fracking-fluid\/","title":{"rendered":"And Yet Hickenlooper Literally Drank Fracking Fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has released a long delayed study on the health impacts of fracking, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westword.com\/news\/long-awaited-colorado-health-study-finds-significant-risks-from-fracking-11516032\">it&#8217;s pretty much as bad as anti-fracking activists have claimed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A long-delayed public health study commissioned by Colorado  regulators found that oil and gas drilling poses health risks at  distances greater than current minimum &#8220;setback&#8221; distances, a  development that is poised to send shockwaves through a regulatory  environment already in a state of transition and uncertainty.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Exposure  to chemicals used in oil and gas development, such as benzene, may  cause short-term negative health impacts\u2026during &#8216;worst-case&#8217;  conditions,&#8221; the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment  said in a press release. &#8220;The study found that there is a possibility of  negative health impacts at distances from 300 feet out to 2,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>State toxicologist Kristy Richardson said in a press conference Thursday afternoon that the results of the study are consistent with the health impacts that have been reported by Colorado residents near oil and gas sites in recent years.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how former Colorado Governor, and current Senate candidate, John Hickenlooper will justify poisoning his own constituents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has released a long delayed study on the health impacts of fracking, and it&#8217;s pretty much as bad as anti-fracking activists have claimed: A long-delayed public health study commissioned by Colorado regulators found that oil and gas drilling poses health risks at distances greater than current minimum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[457,374,688,460],"class_list":["post-177331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-energy","tag-politics","tag-pollution","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}