You can’t watch any of the videos from the DISH meeting where the Texas DSHS gave their dog and pony show without hearing how testing the children in DISH would be too invasive. Another excuse given that we have already proven false was that there are no previous studies that included children to use as a reference.
It seems that testing children in other areas of Texas is not all that invasive.
Testing in Houston from 2007 Conclusion: “no public health hazard.”
Report Prepared by
Carrie M. Bradford, MS, PhD
Toxicologist
DSHS Health Assessment & Toxicology Program
Testing at Leander ISD, Austin Texas in 2008 Conclusion:
Report Prepared by
Carrie M. Bradford, MS, PhD
Toxicologist
DSHS Health Assessment & Toxicology Program
Industry has money and regulators on their side. We have the power to vote and we have PEOPLE who know how to use “teh Google.”
Remember who makes the appointments at all the state regulatory agencies.
VIDEO: Texas DSHS massacre in DISH
VIDEO: Exposes Texas DSHS lie in DISH health study
Finally, the media gets it about the DISH health study
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State fraud.
The State found a convenient reason not to test children. Too invasive? I guess setting a Summa cannister near their home would have just been too traumatic for them.
Slowly but surely, as we've seen in DISH, more recently in Corinth, and now Flower Mound, people are taking matters into their own hands.
The State can pretend to test and be concerned and stall all they want. We know they have been the chief source of the problem for a long time, now. The day is coming soon when the State is going to be joining the Industry at the defendant's table.
Another Texas state agency at work. Doing their appointed chores. WAJ
A few months ago my 13 yr old's doctor ordered a VOC test on him and Aetna Quest Diagnostics labs no not do them, the TX state would not either, we have to pay a private commpany $500 in Dallas to get one done.
Kim Feil
Who is the doctor?
This is the letter I sent Arlington City Council detailing my son's mysterious illness…….The rhyme "Drill baby drill / drill baby kill" is more than just an rhyme. My son goes to Bailey Junior High and I've been upset about the gas well drilling there as well. We have also endured being downwind from the nearby UTA gas drilling rigs for the last three years too. During our recent white out snow event, my son suddenly became ill with a mysterious illness of lethargy, headaches, dizziness, chest pains and nausea that normal blood work and chest & sinus x-rays could not explain. I say “normal” blood tests because only specialized labs perform VOC tests. Even though my doctor ordered a VOC test, we did not have access to one though the Aetna labs at Quest Diagnostics. The Arlington local health Department never returned my calls and the TX state dept. of health first said they would only test my son if we had proof that he needed to be tested like in the DISH TX case. Later, after the state doctor spoke with my son's doctor, they both concluded that it is more probable that my son could have been experimenting with drugs and sniffing something. That is preposterous because my boy scout, patrol leader son was at a church lock in with eight other boys the hours leading up to him being symptomatic of an exposure to chemicals. I believe pollution during our “white out” snow event was "pushed down" to us and that is where my son was exposed to a large dose of “multiple source toxins” when he was outside playing a lot in the snow. I have been secretly glad that my son has been preoccupied with indoor gaming because I’ve been fearful of the quality of our air in my neighborhood that shares close proximity to businesses such as at least three automotive paint shops, a dry cleaners and the General Motors Plant. I now limit his outdoor activities more than ever.
After his ten day illness following the snow event, and once he was caught up with his school work (he missed seven days), I allowed him to go to his friend’s house close to Bailey where they rode bicycles. Within an hour or two riding bikes out in the general outdoor air, I had to rush him to a neighborhood doctor for an acute sinus infection that went into his ears and almost burst his ear drum.
The TCEQ about that, they told me that if they send someone out to my house, that unless the TCEQ worker feels ill (nauseated or dizzy) from fumes while we are outside talking, that no action will be taken. It is too late in my opinion if takes becoming nauseas or dizzy (like my son was for ten days) for action to be taken. There currently are no regulations on “multiple source pollutants”. I like to call that toxic soup because when you mix different chemicals together, you get a unique, synergetic result that could be exponentially dangerous.The toxic soup in my north central neighborhood has dangerous ingredients. These are from local businesses, new road construction, added auto emissions from Cowboy Stadium events, the local GM plant, and now the proposed gas drilling across from the new stadium. This is quite an overload for a residential neighborhood. If we as Barnett Shale citizens must endure the unknown dangers of gas drilling for the greater good of the country in providing natural gas, the least our government can do is to equip EVERY building and home with a specialized air filtration system.