Fracking has been found to harm livestock. If livestock are dropping dead within an hour of a fracking fluid spill, what will it do to locals in the area of fracking?

While this company said they do not intend to frack, they also said they did not intend to drill for water and take east ender’s water, then they went ahead and applied for a permit. They also said there would be jobs out east end, then they said they would import workers with 5 years experience. They lie to the media who dutifully reports whatever they say and ignores the truth.

Like canaries sent into coal mines to warn of breathing hazards, livestock in areas where hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is occurring are getting sick and dropping dead in alarming numbers, according to the only peer-reviewed scientific study of the impact of fracking on animals. And if cattle are getting sick because of fracking, what about the health of people who later drink their milk or eat their flesh?

The study, authored by Prof. Robert Oswald of Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and practicing veterinarian Michele Bamberger, compiles case studies of 24 farmers in 6 states whose livestock experienced neurological, reproductive and acute gastrointestinal problems after exposure to fracking chemicals in the water or air.

The case studies include 17 Louisiana cows that died of respiratory failure after an hour’s exposure to spilled fracking fluid; 70 Pennsylvania cows that died after 140 of them were exposed to fracking wastewater from an impoundment breach; and a Pennsylvania herd whose pregnant cows had a 50% rate of stillborn calves after grazing in a pasture contaminated by fracking chemicals from an overflowing waste pit.

Fracking a single well requires up to 7 million gallons of water, as well as an additional 400,000 gallons of additives. A 2011 study compiled a list of 632 chemicals used in natural-gas production and determined that 75% could affect the skin, eyes, other sensory organs, and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems; 40-50% could affect the brain/nervous system, immune and cardiovascular systems, and the kidneys; 37% could affect the endocrine system; and 25% could cause cancer and mutations.

“AIDEA conducted a long and complex due diligence and negotiation process before making the decision to proceed.” …which ignored all previous dealings with people Buccaneer worked for in Alaska, their entirety of existence?

They did not pay on time, they were forced by a court to pay a percentage of what was owed. They are certainly not a company to be trusted and is irresponsible to encourage others to work for them, much less give them state money. What ‘long and complex due diligence.’? I don’t think those words mean what they think they do.

Sounds like AIDEA can’t be trusted. Why do we need to give this company, or any company, money to drill in our state? Government handout! Takers!!

We need to do our own state drilling and stop allowing irresponsible companies that lie to the public and media to have access to our most precious resources.

Our legislators went to Norway to learn how it is done, time to make them live up to what they learned and do what is right for the people of Alaska. This state would be incredibly wealthy if we harvested our own resources (and got rid of Sean Parnell and the rest of the corrupt bastards club)