Colorado Health/Fracking Info Big Picture 020819 Jan Hendryx, DO, FAAO

Our Water, Our Air, Our Rights website:

http://warights.org/

Serious Issues Concerning Unconventional Shale Gas Development Anywhere

Potential Public Health Hazards, Exposures and Health Effects from Unconventional Natural Gas

Development. John L. Adgate*, Bernard D. Goldstein, Lisa M. McKenzie. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2014, 48 (15),

pp 8307–8320.

GLOBAL

REGIONAL

LOCAL

WELL SITE

Silica

CLIMATE

Hazardous

Chemicals

Accidents

Water

Quality

Water

Quantity

Traffic

Noise

Jobs

Air Quality

Social

Disruption

Neighborhood and Community Impacts

Air, Water, Land, Noise Contamination

Diesel Air Pollution from Compressors during Fracking in

Moshannnon Forest 2010

Industrial Activities (24/7)

Waste Disposal (flowback/sludge)

Storing/Venting/Flaring Toxic Volatile

Organic Compounds (VOCs)

Particle air pollution (PM2.5, PM10)

Fracking Chemicals, Hydrogen sulfide

Hydrofracturing Compressors (100 dB

noise at wellpad plus diesel exhaust)

Truck diesel exhaust, noise 24/7

Spills

Frack Sand Air Contamination

COMPOUNDED with multiple wells

Close proximity to residences,

neighborhoods, schools, farms

Wind direction, strength, humidity

determines airborne toxin exposures

Huge flowback impoundments with

large surface areas can concentrate

VOCs, gases and particles that travel

with wind (plume up to 200 miles)

Impoundments leak contaminating

land and ground water

Ground vibration with seismic testing

and fracking

Lifestyle Disruption

24/7 Well Development/pipelines

Exposures people/animals (water, air,

land)

Health Issues (acute/chronic/Cancer)

Decreased Property Values for Lessor

and Neighbors

Mortgage/Loan Issues

Insurance Issues (property, health)

Climate Change (ozone, NOx, etc.)

What is the FUTURE for our children?

HAZARDOUS Frac Fluid Components

Ammonium

persulfate

Form

Hydrochloric

Acid (HCl)

Form

N, N-dimethyl

formamide

Form

Polyacrylamide

Form

Borate Salts

Form

Glutaraldehyde

Formaldehyde

Form

Sodium Carbonate

Form

Ethylene glycol

Form Guar gum

Form Potassium

chloride

Form Isopropanol

Form

Ammonium

bisulfite

Form

CONCENTRATED HAZARDOUS FLOWBACK/PRODUCED WASTEWATER

Heavy Metals and Salts

Strontium Chlorides Arsenic

Barium Sodium Thorium

Bromides Lead Potassium

Borates Mercury Others

Carcinogenic BTEX Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOCs)

Benzene Ethylbenzene

Toluene Xylene

Carcinogenic Radioactive Materials (NORMS and TENORMS)

Radium 226

Radium 228

Radon

Proprietary and Non-Proprietary Chemicals from

Drilling/Fracking Fluids

As Above

Phosphonates MEG

Polyacrylates Methanol

Hydrate Inhibitors Isopropanol

Phosphinopolycarboxylates

Diesel

Other

Hydrogen Sulfide Gas (H2S)

Wastewater Disposal

Approximately 11,700 Unconventional wells have been drilled. It takes 8-15 million gallons of fresh water per

well to frack one well. 20-80% returns to the surface as flowback/produced water which needs to be disposed

of. What are you going to do with all the wastewater? THIS ISSUE NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED UP FRONT AND

FIGURED OUT!

Proliferation of Shale Wells in Garfield County through April 2017

Boulder and Weld Counties through April 2017

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Water Pollution in PA and DEP Cover-up http://publicherald.org/public-herald-30-month-report-finds-dep-fracking-complaint-

investigations-are-cooked/

Pipeline Construction Contamination

http://www.fractracker.org/2013/04/us-pipelines-average-incidents-are-a-daily-occurrence

Wetlands Contamination by Drilling Mud after Pipeline Spill in Ohio 2017.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17052017/ohio-pipeline-spill-wetlands-damage-environmental-activists-

letter-ferc

Unconventional Well Spills/Violations in Colorado https://www.fractracker.org/

Oil and Gas Threat Map Colorado http://oilandgasthreatmap.com/threat-map/colorado/

Frac Sand Hazards for OG Workers/those living nearby

https://www.osha.gov/dts/hazardalerts/hydraulic_frac_hazard_alert.html

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Climate Change Issues from Methane and CO2

Shale Methane Burning: CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H20 Add in: Radon present (cancer causing)

CONSEQUENCES: House Explosion, Bradford, PA 2011

Scientific References: 1. Climate Change Synthesis Report 2014: Summary for Policy Makers. Penn State University.

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf

2. Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking

(Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction). 5th edition, 3/13/2018. Physicians for Social Responsibility

(PSR); Concerned Health Professionals of NY. https://www.psr.org/wp-

content/uploads/2018/04/Fracking_Science_Compendium_5.pdf

3. A Public Health Review of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas Development. NYS

Department of Health. 12/2014.

http://www.health.ny.gov/press/reports/docs/high_volume_hydraulic_fracturing.pdf

4. Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing. EPA Report to US House of Representatives Committee on

Energy and Commerce Minority Staff April 2011.

http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Hydraulic-Fracturing-

Chemicals-2011-4-18.pdf

5. IPCC 2018 Report on Global Climate Change. https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

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