I’ve blogged about Strudley family before when, like so many others, they had to flee their home due to fracking health impacts.
The Strudleys sued Antero Resources in 2011 and they just won an appeal that threw the case out of court.
Strudley family wins appeal in gas-poisoning case
Post Independent
This is a picture of the rash their son suffered.
UPDATE: This boy’s rash looks a lot like Lisa Parr’s rash. Remember Lisa Parr? She’s the one with horrible health problems–rashes, oozing welts in her scalp, ping-pong size lumps on her neck, breathing problems, balance problems, headaches and etc.–yet no one could find anything wrong with her until an environmental doctor tested her blood and breath and found drilling chemicals.
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That’s good to hear. Maybe the courts up there are not as crooked and oil-soaked as the Texas Courts!!!!!
would love to know what side the appellate judge stands on with regards to fracking.
So, are you looking for another crooked judge?
Looks liked a water blister from being too stupid to check the bath temperature before dropping his ass into it. More useless trash money sucking claims by these brainless idiots!
So, Howdy, are they fracking in your backyard yet? Sounds like they should be…
u go girl.
Jeanette, it’s too late. Howdy has been drinking that water too long already.
Given where his head is, he’s been drinking that water AND dipping his ass in it at the same time. He thinks it feels like money.
Being familiar with the case, the trial judge imposed ‘lone tree’ legal requirements on the Strudleys. That meant they could not use discovery. The Appellate ruled the trial judge wrong which most legal experts had surmised they would.
The issue was hydrogen sulfide getting in their water supply. Before drilling water tested fine and after drilling the water became more and more contaminated. Laboratory tests confirmed the H2S. H2S in water makes sulfuric forms of acid that can burn or cause ‘rashes’. The H2S and acids can cause respiratory distress and nose bleeds, nausea, dizziness, weakness and if in enough concentration – death. For those asking if the Appellate was politically motivated, you would have better asked that of the original trial judge that granted the Antero request for such a ruling. And as for the critic with the ‘too hot water’, I would offer up that unlike sitting in a tub, these people used a shower and that made the problems worse by releasing even more of the H2S. And by the way, this area is underlain by a volcanic flow from the uplift and tear of the crust when formed. Other drillers had deemed the area ‘too problem ridden for economic development’.
looks like Auto-immune problems or Liver issues
To me it looks like rashes on people who live in the fracking zone of sacrifice.
It’s so foolish what people make up I’ve been fracking for 3 years haven’t see those kinda worts on my ass yet lol and I do drink the water ,
So are they gonna build your car out of solar panels cause plastic is a by product of oil , grease and oil changes for your car shure sounds like they come from solar panels too lol and your tires for your solar panel car hope they can make them out of solar panels also the wireying for your solar panels come from by product of oil
Why are all these Canadian trolls coming to view this post?
I expect they’re a little overwhelmed and worried Sharon, judging by the 539 facebook likes to your post – the toxic word is spreading … fast.
When the poisoning is this evident, they seem to become aggressive and resort to deflect and divert, they may be scared and in denial (lots of fracs planned for Canada, maybe they live in an earmarked area).
I’ve seen oil and gas professionals implode here when they find out they’re going to be on the wrong end of a frac. It’s very interesting to see the professional crowd try to deal with the fact they and their families are going to be or are being frac’d. Some of them seem to mobilize, some just shut down, and of course some just try to run away. Although I have no idea where they think they’re running to … everything is going to be frac’d here, and pretty much everywhere really.
And for the ones who haven’t found themselves in the cross-hairs just yet, I expect they’re trying to make as much money as they can, as fast as they can, before the onslaught – and it probably doesn’t look good to the other countries they’re trying to sell this to, when they open-up their sales binders and someone’s skin falls out.
I’ve seen the same thing, Alberta Neighbor. In fact, I sold part of my property to a couple who later sold to another couple. The man worked for CHK then later for Williams. Wen he found out they wanted to do seismic in our area, he came speeding down to my house on his golf cart begging me to not allow seismic on his property because it would ruin his well, septic and foundation. Of course, I had already sent them notice that they were not allowed on any of the property under which I owned the minerals.
Now that’s a good neighbor!
If you were my subsurface-mineral-lordess, I would have utilized that cup holder in my golf cart and brung you a beer.
Love to share a cold beer with you sometime.
That would be lovely.
Canadian here, not a troll.
Canada is experiencing an interesting dichotomy. Our Prime Minister is heavily focused on oil and gas exploration in the west (in particular the Athabasca Oil Sands and some major pipelines). This country has a lot of mineral resource, as well as oil and gas. Much of our economy is run on mining and production. As a consequence, many of our population look towards mining and drilling favourably as the money is great. Additionally, we’re a sparsely populated country, so these effects aren’t happening. Drilling is occurring in the middle of nowhere.
However, there is also a strong air of progressiveness in Canada. For years Canada was known for it’s environmental standards (currently being dismantled by the Prime Minister – resulting in much hatred for him in the East). Now we have two opposing voices spouting their propaganda and vitriol.(here comes my opinion) The truth lies somewhere in between. Any mining or production has consequences, and all forms need to be monitored and regulated to minimize harm. Natural gas is a wonderful resource and is currently in need, but I’d rather a stronger push for solar, wind, and especially nuclear energy. However, we still need petroleum to produce many hydrocarbons, and I don’t think corn biotech is established enough yet to replace it. Canada should openly plan for a shift in energy production, and wean itself off of oil. Eventually our reputation would be repaired.
Unfortunately, there is a very real problem of money. We are ~ 1/10 the population of the states, and nuclear reactors cost the same. If we stopped making money off of oil, taxes might have to hike up. We’re such a big country that infrastructure becomes very expensive. It’s a bit of a catch 22. To cap it all, much of the population is undereducated on these issues, and this has resulted in a very anti-nuclear situation (some provinces entirely forbid uranium exploration). Perhaps an economist could dissect it much better than a humble geologist.
Trilobot,
You are wrong about the effects not being seen in Canada. There are several Canadians who are regular commenters here and there is plenty of documentation about harm caused by the oil & gas industry there.
Natural gas is a dirty, finite fossil fuel and the production methods are not sustainable. The public will not allow nuclear.
An economist has already dissected it. See Energy Policy Forum.
I’m sure there are some issues in Canada, I was merely giving my understanding of the public opinion. I was unclear and used absolute terminology where I shouldn’t have.
As a fossil fuel, natural gas isn’t very dirty (dirty being the term for high in sulphur). Bituminous oil is the dirty stuff. Natural gas burns a bit cleaner and, more importantly, it’s easier to synthesize into polymers.
And yes, it’s finite, just like everything that isn’t grown – from the gas in your car to the bricks on the sidewalk. This makes it unsustainable, though sustainability must be discussed in respect of the timeframe. That being said, at our rate of consumption the timeframe can be considered very short. But that doesn’t make it useless.
The public in Canada is pretty iffy on nuclear. They ignore it in the west, in central Canada it’s opinions seem to be 50/50 in favour, and here in the east it’s the devil resulting in an overall “against”, but not strongly. I’m not sure what the point is of your phrase, “The public will not allow nuclear.” There’s no opinion in this, making it merely an echo of what I already said. Could you please expand on this?
I have no problem being wrong, and would love if you could link me to any decent news reports about harm to people caused by fracking in Canada. Won’t change me opinion, however, since I believe oil and natural gas should be a thing of the past.
My only concern is how we will replace it? Passive and active solar are great for homes, and wind farms are great for communities. Nuclear reactors are fantastic for large communities and groups of communities, and although the fuel is mined, it is far more sustainable than any other mined fuel. Additionally, unlike solar and wind, nuclear energy can be effective anywhere regardless of windspeeds and daylight hours. But what about transportation? What fuel will we replace it with? Solar may be too unreliable for mass transportation, unless batteries become really really good. I doubt any nation would allow tiny nuclear reactors in everyone’s cars.
I’m getting a little hyperbolic here, but the root of the question I hope is visible. As we work our way from fossil fuels to better, more sustainable and safer energy, how do we replace the one great thing of petroleum – portability? Either we discover a new method, develop an existing technology, or stop using transportation altogether (which would be catastrophic). This aren’t rhetorical questions. I’m legitimately curious what your knowledge and opinions are on this.
There is more to natural gas than the clean burn. The process of extraction–the entire process, including mining, processing and transporting the sand–is horrible dirty and destructive. It’s as bad or worse than coal and it’s simply not sustainable. The water destruction alone is not sustainable.
I mean public opinion of nuclear is very low and they will fight nuclear even more than fracking or tar sands.
I’m sorry, I’m far too busy to try to answer all your questions. Try Googling Rosebud for starters.
Steve,this myopic view of things is what caused this fix. Have you not heard of bioplastics, electric cars, and biodiesel?
Amen, Sister. I used to work at the university where they figured out how to make plastic wrap from corn.
Trilobot,
“we’re a sparsely populated country, so these effects aren’t happening. Drilling is occurring in the middle of nowhere.”
Where do all these people come from?
“As somebody who has reported for 20 years on this industry in the province, I can tell you I’ve met hundreds of people in this province who have signed confidentiality agreements once their water was blown, once their livestock was killed, once a member of their family were injured, once they lost most of their grass or their trees as a result of fouling events, contamination events, air pollution, you name it.
It is common practice in this province to buy people out, and then buy their silence … so there is no record of how this industry quite often performs badly.”
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/industrys-gas-migration/
Trilobot, do you spell canada with a C or a K? I just want to make sure we’re talking about the same place. The effects are happening wherever they drill and frac here, and I don’t think most people would consider Calgary and surrounding area – “the middle of nowhere.”
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/fracking-calgary/
“Any mining or production has consequences, and all forms need to be monitored and regulated to minimize harm.”
It’s clear the deregulators and governments are not interested in “regulating and monitoring to minimize harm,” they’re too busy deregulating, closing contamination cases and hanging people out to dry.
Meet the Campbells from Alberta. The “world-class” deregulator, the ERCB, just recently closed their contamination case after 8 years.
The Campbell’s water has been contaminated for 8 years with industry’s stray gas. They have butane, ethane, methane, propane and H2S in their water. Fingerprinted years ago by a leading expert independent third party no less.
As the Campbell’s water has been fouled due to oil and gas development, it is the ERCB’s job to sniff out the offender(s), but after investigating only 9 energy wells (over 8 years) out of more than 50 around the Campbell’s contaminated water well, it appears they grow tired and have decided to cease any further investigation and any “duty of care” they have to landowners who now suffer industry contaminated water.
“A strong air of progressiveness?” Yes, progressively enabling the destruction of our life-sources.
You can read more about the Campbells and other Alberta families dealing with industry’s gas migration at the links below, including in a new catalogue documenting the destruction of our water sources “in the middle of nowhere.”
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/alberta-the-campbells/
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/who-votes-for-this/
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/the-regulators-conclusion/
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/industrys-gas-migration/
“Perhaps an economist could dissect it much better than a humble geologist.”
Speaking of geologists, you might do well to get a few of your buddies together, buy a house in one of the frac zones “in the middle of nowhere ” near Calgary perhaps (tons for sale, not much moving currently) and then take the advice of the outstanding geologist mentioned in this article ….
“Chris Huhn is looking for answers after a spring on his Westward Ho property became contaminated following a nearby hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operation conducted by Imperial Oil.
… The spring on the site flows into a small pond, which in turn, drains down a small creek into the Little Red Deer River.
… On Jan. 25 Huhn said he discovered that the spring on the property was emitting a very strong sour sulphur odour. ‘I went out with my son on the snowmobile to have a look and it was smelling so strong it made me cough,’ said Hahn. ‘It’s always been good water and it has never smelled like this. The thing that shocked me even more was that there was a wind blowing and I could still smell this so I knew it was pretty strong.’
‘Before the frac my water did not smell like sulphur and rotten eggs, and now it smells, so I guess readers have to draw their own conclusions,’ he said.
…Huhn said prior to the fracking operation he had been in contact with the company and requested water testing be conducted before and after the fracking operation.
Company officials told him that such testing was not necessary and that the fracturing operations posed no risk to his water spring, he said.
‘Numerous times I asked for that testing,’ he said. ‘I told them I believed there was a risk to my spring and I want it tested. I said I wanted it tested directly before and directly after because if there is an impact I want to see it right away.
‘They said their geologist said there was no risk from the fracking and that they didn’t see a reason to test. They said there was no risk.’
Huhn has filed a 32-page complaint letter with the ERCB over the lack of testing prior to and following the fracking. ‘Nothing has happened with the ERCB,’ he said.
It was the second time in less than a year that fracking near his property may have impacted his spring, he said.
‘Roughly a week after that (first) fracking (in early summer 2012) occurred, I had my spring tested and the water flow was down by a third,’ he said.”
http://www.ernstversusencana.ca/front-page-spring-contaminated-after-fracking-in-mountain-view-county-alberta-landowner-wants-answers
“I have no problem being wrong, and would love if you could link me to any decent news reports about harm to people caused by fracking in Canada. Won’t change me opinion, however, since I believe oil and natural gas should be a thing of the past. My only concern is how we will replace it?”
Well then, good for you for wanting to move forward, but since it would appear your job probably depends on standing still … you may want to add to your “only concern,” and include water … “how we will replace it?”
The Campbells are relying on bottled water, and some people in Alberta are hauling their own … that good with you?
Thanks Neighbor.
My pleasure. Thank you.
I have been a trial judge since 1978 and I have never heard of “lone tree” or a civil case with no discovery.
Would somebody please translate, as I can’t find such in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.
The Strudleys live in CO.
Bravo, what excellent message
I just got off a job in Wyoming, it was a workover drilling rig they had several different wells on the location they was fracking. I was doing my job running some casing every joint we would send down hole would have displacement shooting out of the pipe nothing out of the ordinary when i started filling like acid burning my flesh so i stopped working and looked at it was a nasty rash that covered my entire back and right arm. They had several h2s flares, several wells, and fracking could these factors have something to do with this unknown rash/lumps on my body from the displacement. Pleasegive me some kind of feedback. Thanks
Yeah, most likely it’s related. Can you get to a doctor without anyone knowing? They don’t like it when workers go to the doctor. Click on “Contact me” and send me an email if you want.