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Salt and Fracking Endanger our Water
by
Watchdog | 02.02.2010
Philadelphia's water, Pennsylvania's water, New York's water is being stolen, and badly polluted. Philly's own University City Review (and Weekly Press) has become the best local source of information about this. Water problems. FYI As far as Philly's health and healthy water are concerned, Philly's own University City Press Review (same as downtown's Weekly Press) has been by far the most thorough, consistent, and helpful source of info on the big "fracking" (gas drilling) threat whereby, for one thing, so much water may be taken from the Delaware that the salt line will move upstream to above the city's water intakes. The benefit of not having to drive down the shore for a salt water experience does not compensate for the environmental disasters. Possible "solution"? Not to stop the fracking---but for the city (NOT the gas drillers et al) to build and pay for zillion dollar de-salinization plants. "Affordable" health care absurdities aside...we may soon be talking about "affordable water". Maybe the poor can get Water Vouchers. Speaking of health care---some of the firms involved in this fracking just happen to be on SEC lists of big investment properties of top health insurers. Here's just two SEC lists of where just two top health insurers invest what was supposed to be our health care money. Lists aren't up-to-date, but....scroll down to find your favorite water-polluting, and "fracking", industries. Many don't know that for-profit health insurers are the BIGGEST investor community on Wall Street. MetLife: http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u3nht.htm People's health-care money to for-profit insurers goes to invest in firms that poison water (for starters) and sicken untold numbers of people...not to mention the harm to wildlife. Here's link to one UC Review article on water and salt. The articles on fracking, going back months, are at that site as well. http://ucreview. com/default. asp?smenu= 1&sdetail=1895 |
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Solidarity
Submitted by Baja K (not verified) on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 7:27pmThis water pollution and environmental destruction area provides grounds for some unity between environmental, toxics, and wildlife activists WITH Health Care activists pushing for a Single Payer national health system...which eliminates the private insurance business in the health care area.
Who wants...and who can trust...a health care administrator that happens to have billions of dollars invested in some of the worst health-damaging businesses?...possibly even the business that caused one's illness?
Good luck to patients sickened by investment properties of such insurers.
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