When we were reporting in the Eagle Ford Shale area of Texas, a handful of residents living near fracking operations told us about similar, odd symptoms theyd experience every so often. Headaches, nosebleeds and a nauseating odor, but when they complained to regulators, monitoring data would usually show air quality that was normal. A new study finds the air monitoring techniques used most often are based on averages over 24 hours or more, making it very difficult to detect a severe spike in toxic emissions. A Texas environmental advocate with the Sierra Club put it this way, If the police had to use 24-hour averaging for enforcing speed limits, nobody would ever speed. It would average out, he said.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:45:34 +0000
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