Could You & Your family be Next? Life in the Fracking sacrifice zone

Marilyn Hunt of Wetzel County, W.V., who found toxic chemicals in her water that migrated from a drilling site one mile from her home.

• Judy Armstrong Stiles of Bradford County, Pa., who tells of finding barium and arsenic in her drinking water, and then in her own blood, after Chesapeake began drilling on her land.

• William Sciscoe, Mayor of Dish, Texas, who explains how air quality tests near a compressor station found cancer-causing substances at 400 times the safe exposure levels set by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• June Chappel of Washington County, Pa., who has lived with a 15 million gallon fracking waste pit just 200 feet from her house.

• Jaime Frederick of Coitsville, Ohio, who discovered barium, strontium, toluene and other contaminants in her water after 25 drilling wells began operating within a mile of her home. She experienced several illnesses and says her property value has been reduced to “nothing.”

• Laura Amos of Colorado, whose story is summarized by others because she is barred by a gag order in a legal settlement with a drilling company from talking about how fracking chemicals polluted her water.

http://environmentamericacenter.org/reports/amc/shalefield-stories