Fracking Near Bailey Junior High Arlington in Pantego TX Carrizo Site January 2011

While the workers wore respirators, the students up the street did not. View the last five minutes of the AISD School Board Meeting of January 20, 2011 for an overview of how this was allowed. Basically at every level from the school board, planning and zoning, city council of Arlington and Pantego, to the state and federal regulations that were supposed to protect the public's air and water were either nonexistent or loopholed. Now that the EPA is regulating green house gases, the lone state of Texas is refusing to comply. Our misinformed American president referred to natural gas as being in the list of clean energy sources, yet the full life cycle is proving to be just another dirty, fossil fuel and may even be dirtier than coal. See the EPA or the Cornell University, Horwarth study for details. For those skeptical of climate changes being man made, see Stanford University, Jacobson Effect for the urban dome of carbon dioxide (made exponentially worse by methane interacting with sunlight ) for "ground" level OZONE, SMOG that permanently damages our lungs. So if the weather doesn't concern you, ground level, severe air quality should-unless your paycheck depends on natural gas being our bridge fuel...then don't breathe.

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