Sunday, February 23, 2014

Gripping Report and Film Reveal How Fracking Boom Destroys Texans' Lives

From:  EcoNews



Shelby Buehring was born in South Texas and bought a home there in 1995, but he has grown to hate the area.
That’s because the area’s fracking boom caused his wife, Lynn, to depend on an inhaler to help her breathe properly amid an atmosphere rife with thick black smoke, strong stenches and other environmental effects from fracking near their Karnes County home.
The Buehrings are two of several people the Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and The Weather Channel spoke to as part of a most-gripping report and short film package released Tuesday that exposes the impact of fracking as well as any on record.
“There’s nothing we can do,” Shelby Buehring said of living near the Eagle Ford Shale play. “Nobody is listening to us.
“They’re not going to stop, so we have to live with it or leave … This is my home, and I hate it here.”


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