WHY - 2012 HC Report kept from public???

WHY - 2012 HC Report kept from public???

Postby Oscar » Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:43 am

Why was a 2012 Health Canada Report, admitting significant health hazards and risks to groundwater and air from hydraulic fracturing, kept from the public?

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Posted on October 1, 2014 by admin

Potential Health Hazards from Shale Gas Exploration and Exploitation by Severine Louis, M.Sc., Toxicologist Project Manager- Risk Analysis and Marie-Odile Fouchecourt, Ph.D. Toxicologist Project Director-Risk Analysis, May 4, 2012, for Mr. Richard Carrier, Head, Chemical Assessment Section Safe Environments Directorate, Health Canada, 0/Ref.: RA 11-410, Y/Ref.: SO No. 4600000047

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[The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) did not reference or mention this report, even though Health Canada's frac hazards analysis was completed 2 years before the CCA frac panel report was released. The report was sent to journalist David Kattenburg late March 2014 under his Freedom of Information Request.]

Important quotes from the Heath Canada report:

Although the risks related to hydraulic fracturing itself (creation of multiple cracks underground) and to further injection of chemicals are currently unknown (lack of monitoring data and lack of information on migration through cracks in the long-term), it is anticipated that this practice could potentially contaminate the groundwater after several years or decades.

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