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How to Gas a New Yorker
by Chip Northrup on May 3, 2013
It’s surprisingly easy ! Just ship Marcellus Shale gas into New York City ! Here’s how:
1. First, frack some shale gas, such as the Marcellus Shale in New York that is notoriously rich in radioactive material, such as radium 226, the gaseous “daughter” of which is Radon Gas, the second leading cause of lung cancer in the US. It’s heavier than air, so it settles and can accumulate - invisibly. In any home that has a gas stove or heater.
2. Do not remove the Radon Gas from the natural gas stream ! Radon is only removed when the raw gas has “liquids” in it that can be recovered and sold: propane, butane, ethane. But the Marcellus Shale in New York State (and NE Pa.) is “dry” - no liquids, so the Radon is not removed: itall goes into the gas stream at full potency. Right to Brooklyn. http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/11/08/fracking-radiation/
3. Build a new pipeline to get the gas to NYC fast. The Radon has a very short radioactive half life - a matter of days, 3.8 to be precise. So to deliver the Radon Gas to the New York Yankees at full radioactive strength it has to be done in a matter of hours/ days - which is all it would take to get the gas from an Upstate New York shale gas well into Midtown Manhattan . . . and Presto. The frackers have delivered highly carcinogenic radon gas into people’s homes.
Perhaps you’d like to do something about this before you make it to the List of the Harmed with lung cancer ? Might check this out:
Why Increased Radon Levels in Natural Gas Could Be a Public Health Disaster
The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD), joined by more than 50 cosponsors, presents a public education forum:
Lung Cancer & New York City Kitchens
The forum seeks to inform New York City residents, as well as workers in the restaurant, utility and building maintenance fields, about planned changes in natural gas sources that could result in higher radon levels in gas delivered to the City. Experts on radiation, housing, public health, and worker safety will share their analysis and provide needed information on this potential new health threat, what can be done about it, why this information has not previously been brought to public attention, and how to create a more sustainable energy future in which such health risks are eliminated.
Where:
The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design
The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues, Manhattan
Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, Concerned Health Professionals of NY, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability/NYH2O, Food & Water Watch, New York Committee on Occupational Safety & Health, Sane Energy Project, United for Action.
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1. First, frack some shale gas, such as the Marcellus Shale in New York that is notoriously rich in radioactive material, such as radium 226, the gaseous “daughter” of which is Radon Gas, the second leading cause of lung cancer in the US. It’s heavier than air, so it settles and can accumulate - invisibly. In any home that has a gas stove or heater.
3. Build a new pipeline to get the gas to NYC fast. The Radon has a very short radioactive half life - a matter of days, 3.8 to be precise. So to deliver the Radon Gas to the New York Yankees at full radioactive strength it has to be done in a matter of hours/ days - which is all it would take to get the gas from an Upstate New York shale gas well into Midtown Manhattan . . . and Presto. The frackers have delivered highly carcinogenic radon gas into people’s homes.
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