Study Finds 8 Fracking Chemicals Toxic to Humans | EcoWatch
▻http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/19/fracking-chemicals-toxic-to-humans
S’il en reste à convaincre que la #fracturation_hydraulique c’est de la merde
Environmental engineer William Stringfellow and colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of the Pacific told the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco that they scoured databases and reports to compile a list of the chemicals commonly used in fracking.
But the researchers assembled a list of 190 of them, and considered their properties. For around one-third of them, there was very little data about health risks, and eight of them were toxic to mammals.
Fracking is a highly controversial technique, and has not been handed a clean bill of health by the scientific societies.
Seismologists have warned that such operations could possibly trigger earthquakes, and endocrinologists have warned that some of the chemicals used are known hormone-disruptors, and likely therefore to represent a health hazard if they get into well water.
