Hello all,<br><br>Our local NPR station, WSKG will be doing a story on
Gas Drilling in our area soon. Will let you know when. I am assisting a
most wonderful, spunky woman friend, Susana Schwartz, who has been
endlessly helping our environment, animals, you name it by lobbying in
her home town (no
one pays her), writing, going door to door, aside from managing her
horses and her daily job. So, from her amazing gas drilling researching
abilities
and writing skills she peaked the interest of our local NPR
station to do a one hour story / interview on her. She will have a
panel of experts in their field speaking on gas drilling
and its consequences.<br>
<br>Dare I ask ... could you make calls into this
station whether they have this open to the public or not? And let them
know how you stand on gas contaminants and its detrimental effects on
our land and our health? (I've written a few down below and if you want
more I'll send on. Just ask.) I'll let you know day, time and telephone
number as soon as I find out. And of course thank them for their
coverage and ask for more of this. We want to get our food, air and
water clean again, and keep it that way. Gas drilling is definitely not
one of those ways to do this. <br>
<br>Don't feel guilty if you're using gas at home. We'll come up with a
better way sooner than later. Its inevitable. For now, we need to speak
out about the destructive effects gas chemicals have on our soil,
water, air and food. <br>
The following is what I wrote to Susana for her interview.<br><br>Points of concern I take on Gas drilling chemicals (or just about any chemical for that matter): <br><br>1) - <b><i>No tolerance for the use of <u>any</u> gas drilling chemicals.<br>
Even the so called "safe" levels set by the EPA and/or DEC.</i> </b>These and <br>
other chemicals are over burdening natures ability to filter out. If filtering is <br> even possible any longer. Since man made mixes and the deluge of chemicals <br> from countless sources bombarding our environment may no longer be <br>
discernible for our ecosystem to be able to filter. As a registered <br> nurse, its inescapable to not notice how there's an increase of healthy <br> people coming down with chronic diseases. It seems to be in direct <br>
relation to the increase of chemicals and environmental contaminants <br> in our society as a whole.<br>
(See recent French Study reported in Mother Earth Magazine - Dec. '09 <br> issue on Roundup, a glyphosate herbicide, found EPA safe standard <br> levels "may", god I dislike that word, "may" not be so safe after all.)<br>
<br>2) - <i><b>N</b><b>o tolerance for even <u>low</u> levels of Gas drilling chemicals.</b></i><br> The incalculable and unavoidable number of environmental <br> contaminants in our air, water, soil, food, clothing, body and <br>
hair care products, ... must I go on? ... all having so called <br> 'safe levels' set by whatever governing body, and, that governing <br> body often times are <i>paid</i> by those chemical company's (see below). <br>
I believe these chemicals are a major cause of the chronic <br> diseases we are seeing. In particular they are endocrine <br> disrupting toxins. Toxins which are known to cause oxidative <br> damage to our reproductive & endocrine mitochondrial cells <br>
as well as <u>every</u> mitochondrial cell in our body. Mitochondria cells<br> are our power house in every cell, giving them the energy to properly<br> function. If destroyed or weakened, research shows it results in chronic<br>
diseases and conditions such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, Heart Disease, <br> Diabetes, and some such as Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue, <br> we've not seen before 30 or so yrs ago. <br> <br>(The
DEC did receive Gas Drilling money. This information came about thanks
to Erik Miller and according to a report from the NYS Comptroller
"during the six years ended December 31, 2005, the Department of
Environmental Conservation received over $10.4 million in lease
revenue" from gas drilling.)<br>
<br>Invaluable environmental and health related sites:<br>TEDX.org<br>The Endocrine Society <br><br><b>Question for you Susana:</b>
Do you have information correlating the
incidence of disease in relation to gas drilling sites? If not and we
have time, I will try to find. I'm curious about this correlation for
drilling sites
that have 'never' had a gas drilling incidence to drilling sites that
have had one or more
incidences. <br><br>Thank you for listening everyone and hope you don't mind. <br><br><b>One last point</b>:
We
as herbalists and helper healers know that faith, mindfulness,
botanicals
(subtle to concentrates), nutritional foods and supplements can make a
difference at turning around some or many of these disease conditions.
However, if we continue to randomly pump chemical cocktails into our
environment, the saturation point will obviously tip. My sense says
that it has
already. <br>
<br>Blessings, <br><br>Marguerite<br><br>PS: I'm not scared. I'm not angry. I'm not pissed. <br>I'm just confused. Confused at what rationales and motives some humans are guided by.<br><br><br><br><br><br>
<br><br><br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"DON'T BITE THE LAND THAT FEEDS YOU"<br>unknown<br><br><br>'Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.' <br>
Cree saying.<br><br><br>Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, R.N., Herbalist<br>TheHerbalNurses™<br>226 Kelso Rd. / Sanders Lane <br>East Meredith, NY 13757<br>(607) 278-9635<br>