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What Effects on Water, Air, Food and Our Children's Health?

Will Beaver County Become A Sacrifice Zone to Supply the World with Gas?

Speakers will be:  Bill Hughes, Chair, Wetzel County Solid Waste Authority, WV.
Member of Wetzel County Action Group documenting shale drilling activities, will give first hand accounts of toxic frack spills and the recent water contamination of over 300,000 people in Charleston WV.
Yuri Gorby, PhD, Geomicrobiologist. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will talk about the emerging threats to freshwater resources.
Jill Kriesky, PhD, Associate Director, Southwest PA Environmental Health Project, will talk about the potential health impacts of fracking.
Debbie Lambert, Emcee, a Beaver County resident.
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