You hear a lot of health complaints like these - and confusion about them - in communities near the oil and gas fields of America. But other tests by universities on the family’s water found high levels of bromide, chloride, manganese, uranium - all compounds associated with fracking chemicals. Local hospital tests on Ryan found nothing wrong. The state tested his water and declared it safe. Latkanich has struggled to get answers to his medical problems. The family started buying bottled water to use for everything. “My son came to me last week and he says, ‘Dad, you cry in your sleep,’” he said. Latkanich himself has been diagnosed with neuropathy, a kind of nerve damage that causes him joint pain. Since the bath that led to his son’s rash, Latkanich said the boy has been diagnosed with asthma and suffered incontinence, “defecating himself almost on a daily basis from just the use of this water, apparently.” In a 2014 report that office said the state’s Department of Environmental Protection “monitors shale waste with self-reported data that is neither verified nor quality controlled for accuracy and reliability.” State oversight of fracking wastewater from 2009 to 2012 came under criticism from the Pennsylvania Auditor General. That’s months before Latkanich said he took his photos. Chevron denies that, saying it removed the wastewater and the liner in the summer of 2012. Latkanich said he took the photos December 15 or 16, 2012.
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Latkanich brought out photos that he said show a crumpled liner on the edge of a pit still full of water.
Latkanich thinks fracking chemicals that were shot down the gas well and came back up were stored in a pit on his property that wasn’t lined - as it was supposed to be - to prevent leaking. Something is wrong with Ryan! And he came out with rashes that were beyond poison ivy or oak.”
Four years ago, when his son, Ryan, 7, was in the bathtub, Latkanich said, “His mother screams upstairs like bloody murder. Latkanich thinks fracking chemicals polluted his water well and made his family sick. Chevron then acquired those rights in 2011. Pretty much since the fracking boom began, people who live near these wells have worried about chemicals getting into their water and making them sick.Ī new set of documents shared with Marketplace by the Partnership for Policy Integrity from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that the agency has previously undisclosed health concerns that some fracking chemicals might cause things like liver poisoning and tumors.īryan Latkanich makes his home in the rural hills of Pennsylvania, smack in the middle of the largest natural gas region of the country known as the Marcellus Shale. Latkanich sold the rights to drill on his property in 2010.
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It relies on shooting high-pressure water mixed with chemicals down into layers of rock to crack the stone and release oil and gas. We’re about a decade into an oil and gas revolution known shorthand as fracking.
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