image sourceKevin SamsonActivist PostDespite corporate propaganda asserting that fracking can actually be good for the environment, the iconic image in the movie Gasland where a man lights his tap water on fire can't be unseen.Or one might consider what Pennsylvania cattle farmer Ken Jaffe of Slope Farms documented around his well-tended property. Fracking began in 2005 there and is now littered with more than 1,500 wells. He and his fellow farmers in fracked regions have begun to see curious things:...the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture quarantined 28 cattle belonging to Don and Carol Johnson, who farm about 175 miles southwest of Jaffe. The animals had come into wastewater that leaked from a nearby well that showed concentrations of chlorine, barium, magnesium, potassium, and radioactive strontium.
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