Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
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.
In the more than 20 years he worked for the department, Deasy said, “community health wasn’t told to be silent on any other topic that I can think of.”
No doubt this was because there is no chance that pumping large quantities of secret, likely toxic, liquids into the earth with enough pressure to break rock deep under the ground is as safe as a pillow fight at a elementary-school sleepover.
Also, pigs, wings.
Much, much more at the link.
Via C&L.
