When people put crap into the water supply, nothing good can come out of it.
“Two retirees from the Pennsylvania Department of Health say its employees were silenced on the issue of Marcellus Shale drilling.
“One veteran employee says she was instructed not to return phone calls from residents who expressed health concerns about natural gas development.
“‘We were absolutely not allowed to talk to them,’ said Tammi Stuck, who worked as a community health nurse in Fayette County for nearly 36 years.
“Another retired employee, Marshall P. Deasy III, confirmed that.
“Deasy, a former program specialist with the Bureau of Epidemiology, said the department also began requiring field staff to get permission to attend any meetings outside the department. This happened, he said, after an agency consultant made comments about drilling at a community meeting.”
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Of course these staffers were muzzled. We can’t let citizens learn about the potential hazards of fracking, because, if the the people of PA were to learn of such things as threats to water quality, air quality and other effects linked to this drilling, they might complain to our elected leaders, who would then have to reconsider their stands on this money-making business. Remember, folks, it’s the bottom line that counts, not our health, not this terrarium in which we live. So, shut up folks, just grin and bear it!