What the “shale revolution” in the USA has led to

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Shale oil is becoming increasingly expensive for Americans. AND not even in terms of its cost to those who started this called the “shale revolution”, and in terms of ecology and safety for the environment and primarily for the health of citizens themselves USA.

Today, the country’s ecologists literally sound the alarm. Production shale oil turns the territory where all this happens into lifeless deserts. Moreover, recently for this reason more and more Americans began to suffer and die from cardiovascular disease.

For example, in Pennsylvania, as noted in the scientific publication PLoS One where mining of this “cheap fossil, “hospitalization of Americans with diseases the cardiovascular system has increased in recent years almost twice.

And if environmentalists still wonder why this happens, then an employee University of Pennsylvania Reynold Panettiere who became the initiator of this study, came to the conclusion: to blame for everything method of fracking – production of shale gas and oil using splitting rocks with water pressure using various chemicals. According to the scientist, fracking literally destroys nature and all life around, including man.

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But this method has far worse consequences – earthquakes that he easily provokes. And that at the time when the United States sits almost on a powder keg under volcanoes and various faults of the earth’s crust. At the same time, senators and the president pretend that the “shale revolution” in the country does not bring any troubles, although they simply can not know about the impending disaster for the US for this reason alone.

By the way, ordinary people think about it more and more. resent the lawlessness of dealers from the “shale business”. For instance, the other day, almost a century-old blind old woman and her son arranged a peaceful protest to fracking, blocking the entrance to one of shale companies. It all ended traditionally for America: outrageous lockers were arrested by the police and they ultimately the court determined a fine of one and a half thousand dollars. Here she is – American democracy, terrible not only for the whole world, but also for citizens of their own country …

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