John Hanger's Facts of The Day: Promised Land Fracks Or Blows It: My Review: Promised Land had an opportunity to be a great movie but blows it. Promised Land blows it, because it could have challenged and prodded al...
A shame indeed. Back to my breathing machine the gas industry blessed me with and so many others with ill health. THE GAS INDUSTRY IS RESPONSIBLE WITH THEIR UNSAFE PRACTICES.
The fight of small group of people in Northern Michigan against the oil and gas industry. All we want is it done safely and know the health hazards! Ah, the dreaded pink tape. Just two women who health has been so drastically changed since 2003 fighting the big boys and educating those who want to be educated and even those who don't.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Thought I would share this with you, interesting....
- Teri Tripp-Lanciault, Sandra Serhan and 6 others like this.
Kristen Hayes List one toxin per month and have the information available on their legislative pages for their constituents on Lead, Mercury, Pesticides etc..- Kristen Hayes ^ I will volunteer my time to do the work for 'the toxin of the month club'. I created a Children's Environmental Health Resource Center for Representative Mirabito--my time, my resources= budget neutral. (I don't know if it's still there, but I pulle...See More
Jaime Rixmann Long Chimner I don't make resolultions myself. Good ideas you have Kristen. Need some help I'm here.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Hurricane Sandy
http://www.weca.org/SET/report/node6.html
Interesting that they had a simulation with a "Hurricane Sandy" back in 1997. What else aren't they telling us.
By the way I was told Pennsylvania banned Fracking? Proud of you. Now Michigan, now let's us get our act together.
Stay safe in the Hurricane coming on the east coast. Get water, food, NOW because the stores will be out of it soon, if not already. A thought,,,,,,,,you can use water from your hot water heater, especially if you have a water filter, which everyone should have . A better one not some of those cheapy ones. If that is all your can afford, like us, something is better than nothing.
Stay safe.
Interesting that they had a simulation with a "Hurricane Sandy" back in 1997. What else aren't they telling us.
By the way I was told Pennsylvania banned Fracking? Proud of you. Now Michigan, now let's us get our act together.
Stay safe in the Hurricane coming on the east coast. Get water, food, NOW because the stores will be out of it soon, if not already. A thought,,,,,,,,you can use water from your hot water heater, especially if you have a water filter, which everyone should have . A better one not some of those cheapy ones. If that is all your can afford, like us, something is better than nothing.
Stay safe.
Friday, September 7, 2012
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Here is the map of Canadian wells and their pipelines in Lake Erie. Thanks Canada!!! For keeping out Great Lakes Clean. Here some were fighting so hard to keep them from the industry and they do it. I don't know why but I was shocked when my husband found that last night. Why are we bothering to fight about anything.........
Here is the map of Canadian wells and their pipelines in Lake Erie. Thanks Canada!!! For keeping out Great Lakes Clean. Here some were fighting so hard to keep them from the industry and they do it. I don't know why but I was shocked when my husband found that last night. Why are we bothering to fight about anything.........
Intensive drilling sustains Lake Erie gas production - Offshore
Intensive drilling sustains Lake Erie gas production - Offshore
Feel like fool actually. Some have been fighting to keep the oil and gas industry out of the Great Lakes, Well it appears Canada has been drilling on their side since the 50's. Why are we fighting at all.....it seems pointless now. Have another map showing the pipelines........
Feel like fool actually. Some have been fighting to keep the oil and gas industry out of the Great Lakes, Well it appears Canada has been drilling on their side since the 50's. Why are we fighting at all.....it seems pointless now. Have another map showing the pipelines........
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Mysterious noise in Chums Corner
2 days ago people in the Chums Corner area of Northern Michigan heard choppers and saw lights. Read the story and remember BLACK chopper. Still on the site to read, really surprised they hadn't been forced to pull it. Scary world we live in. Mysterious goings on in Chums Corner
Monday, August 6, 2012
Natural Gas is Unnatural
http://www.alive.com/articles/view/17263/natural_gas_is_unnatural
Couldn't get link to work to copy and pasted it for you.
Interesting read. You have to read that study I sent with the link if you haven't. It lays all
our symptoms out there...in 2006. Then came upon this one.
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Couldn't get link to work to copy and pasted it for you.
Interesting read. You have to read that study I sent with the link if you haven't. It lays all
our symptoms out there...in 2006. Then came upon this one.
your complete source for natural health
and wellness
Natural Gas is Unnatural
by David Wimberly
Scientific studies are now proving what people with
environmentally induced illness have long known. Not only
is indoor natural gas use a common contributor to multiple
chemical sensitivity needing medical attention, but it
also contributes to respiratory illness. This is a major
disappointment and disillusionment. Multinational
corporations and governments told us natural gas was "the
clean fuel, the healthy fuel." Yet intelligent citizens
have learned to be very skeptical of the claims of those
making billions of dollars purveying petrochemicals.
The founder and director of the Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Tex., William J. Rea, MD, states that, "Of 47,000 patients, the most important sources of indoor air pollution responsible for generating illness were the gas cook stoves, hot water heaters, and furnaces." (Chemical Sensitivity: Sources of Total Body Load, 1994).
Gerald Ross, MD, former president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, writes, "Traditionally, natural gas is a pollutant chemical that can worsen both classical allergy and chemical sensitivity-[patients with complex allergies and sensitivities] will have only limited success with their treatment programs if they are living in a home that has natural gas or if they are in an area where there is natural gas transportation or leakage."
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, in their publication, The Clean Air Guide: How to Identify and Correct Indoor Air Problems in Your Home (1993), lists under chemical contaminants the "combustion gases generated by the burning of fossil fuels in gas furnaces, fireplaces, hot water heaters, wood stoves and oil furnaces." Converting to electric is recommended, as "sufficient evidence has accumulated on the negative impact on health of using open flame gas stoves."
The use of natural gas stoves is linked to asthma and other respiratory health problems. Increased risk was established for asthma attacks, waking with shortness of breath, reduced lung function and increased airway obstruction. Use of vents did not lessen the harmful effects (The Lancet, 1996).
Infants exposed to home gas heating had an increased risk of developing asthma, with gas being a more significant risk than tobacco smoke (Epidemiology, 2000).
Children living in homes with smokers or where gas stoves were used for heat were nearly twice as likely to have asthma (Pediatrics, 2001).
Individuals who used a gas stove seven or more times per week were at twice the risk of seeking emergency room treatment for asthma. There’s a significant relationship between regular gas stove use and hospitalization for asthma and urgent visits to a physician’s office. At the 65th annual scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians in Chicago, 1999, Dr Mark Eisnor cautioned adults with severe asthma to avoid gas stove cooking.
"A significant adverse effect of gas stove exposure on respiratory health in children" more than doubles their risk for respiratory symptoms, including asthma. A meta-analysis of all published research in this area finds that, overall, research supporting the health safety of gas has serious statistical and/or methodological flaws (Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 1998).
Acute short-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide from single episodes of gas cooking was associated with immediate airflow limitation. Continued exposure from repeated episodes of gas cooking in asthmatic women was associated with greater use of rescue bronchodilators (Thorax, 2001).
Gas cooking generates very high concentrations of oxides of nitrogen plus more ultra-fine particles than electric cooking. Recent epidemiology suggests that cardiac effects cannot be excluded (Occup Environ Med, 2001).
Gas is toxic due to:
The founder and director of the Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Tex., William J. Rea, MD, states that, "Of 47,000 patients, the most important sources of indoor air pollution responsible for generating illness were the gas cook stoves, hot water heaters, and furnaces." (Chemical Sensitivity: Sources of Total Body Load, 1994).
Gerald Ross, MD, former president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, writes, "Traditionally, natural gas is a pollutant chemical that can worsen both classical allergy and chemical sensitivity-[patients with complex allergies and sensitivities] will have only limited success with their treatment programs if they are living in a home that has natural gas or if they are in an area where there is natural gas transportation or leakage."
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, in their publication, The Clean Air Guide: How to Identify and Correct Indoor Air Problems in Your Home (1993), lists under chemical contaminants the "combustion gases generated by the burning of fossil fuels in gas furnaces, fireplaces, hot water heaters, wood stoves and oil furnaces." Converting to electric is recommended, as "sufficient evidence has accumulated on the negative impact on health of using open flame gas stoves."
The use of natural gas stoves is linked to asthma and other respiratory health problems. Increased risk was established for asthma attacks, waking with shortness of breath, reduced lung function and increased airway obstruction. Use of vents did not lessen the harmful effects (The Lancet, 1996).
Infants exposed to home gas heating had an increased risk of developing asthma, with gas being a more significant risk than tobacco smoke (Epidemiology, 2000).
Children living in homes with smokers or where gas stoves were used for heat were nearly twice as likely to have asthma (Pediatrics, 2001).
Individuals who used a gas stove seven or more times per week were at twice the risk of seeking emergency room treatment for asthma. There’s a significant relationship between regular gas stove use and hospitalization for asthma and urgent visits to a physician’s office. At the 65th annual scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians in Chicago, 1999, Dr Mark Eisnor cautioned adults with severe asthma to avoid gas stove cooking.
"A significant adverse effect of gas stove exposure on respiratory health in children" more than doubles their risk for respiratory symptoms, including asthma. A meta-analysis of all published research in this area finds that, overall, research supporting the health safety of gas has serious statistical and/or methodological flaws (Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 1998).
Acute short-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide from single episodes of gas cooking was associated with immediate airflow limitation. Continued exposure from repeated episodes of gas cooking in asthmatic women was associated with greater use of rescue bronchodilators (Thorax, 2001).
Gas cooking generates very high concentrations of oxides of nitrogen plus more ultra-fine particles than electric cooking. Recent epidemiology suggests that cardiac effects cannot be excluded (Occup Environ Med, 2001).
Gas is toxic due to:
- the methane itself (an asphyxiant) and gases
- impurities (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene)
- contaminants (radon, methylmercury, organoarsenic, organolead)
- additives (mercaptan odourants)
- products of combustion (nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, fine particulates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds (including formaldehyde) and hundreds of other chemicals.
- ultrafine particulates irritate the respiratory system
- particulates and toxins burden the immune system
- overloaded systems can become hyper-sensitized
- gas combustion generates water vapour, increasing dust mites, viruses and bacteria.
About the Author
David Wimberly, Canada's only master flutemaker, has been an outspoken advocate of healthy and ecological alternatives for many years, He is co-manager of the Natural Gas Health Information Coalition (now inactive)._______________________________________________
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