Near and far, Tacoma’s natural gas plant is bad for human health September 5, 2019
Photo: Backbone Campaign / CC BY 2.0
Maia Syfers, ARNP, Washington PSR, and Melissa Lem, MD, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment | Crosscut
In the summer of 2017, Brian Derfler, a third-generation farmer from Farmington in northeastern British Columbia, couldn’t sleep. In an interview, he spoke of his experiences with fracking near his farm, including deafening midnight flaring and constant drilling noise, poor air quality, intrusive truck traffic and stress over crop losses from soil degradation. He was also keenly aware of the broader implications of expanding the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry: “What they’re doing here is affecting our health directly, but it’s going to affect your climate,” he said.
Share:
Categories:
More In the News
Protect Columbia estuary from fuel refinery
Photo: Sam Beebe | CC BY 2.0 Joan Rothlein, PhD, Healthy Climate Action Team, Oregon PSR | The Oregonian This industry would potentially destroy over...
Physicians group warns against propping up biodiesel as part of Massachusetts’ clean heat transition
Energy News Network As the state works on the creation of a Clean Heat Standard, a report released last month by Greater Boston Physicians for...
Pulling Back From the Nuclear Brink
Dr. Bob Dodge, PSR BoardMichael Crist, IPPNWThe New York Times There is a grass-roots movement, Back From the Brink (I am on its steering committee),...