Save Our Salem Community Presentation

Who is the POC?

Our Team

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Introduction

Truck Traffic Drill Rigs Valves/fittings Compressor Stations

Processing Plants

Pipe LinesStorage & Treatment

Introduction

Risk of Exposure

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Risk to Workers

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Will Current Regulatory Standards Protect Families & Communities?

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Emissions Sources

Truck Traffic Drill Rigs Valves/fittings Compressor Stations

Processing Plants

Pipe LinesStorage & Treatment

Emissions Sources

Operational

Fugitive

Emissions Sources

Pollutant Health EffectsParticulate matter (PM)

Pollutant Health Effects

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s)

Truck Traffic Drill Rigs Valves/fittings Compressor Stations

Processing Plants

Pipe LinesStorage & Treatment

Health Impacts

Steinzor, Subra, and Sumi, NEW SOLUTIONS, Vol. 23(1), 2013 https://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/SteinzorSubraSumiShale

GasHealthImpacts2013.pdf, McKenzie, et all. Colorado School of Public Health “Birth Outcomes and Maternal Residential Proximity to Natural Gas Development in Rural Colorado.” Environmental Health Perspectives, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1306722

Pregnancy and Birth Defects

Health Impacts

Proximity

Peter M. Rabinowitz, et al. “Proximity to Natural Gas Wells and Reported Health Status: Results of a Household Survey in Washington County, Pennsylvania.” Environmental Health Perspectives, September 2014 https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307732/

Health Impacts

Toxicity

Health ImpactsNoise & Light

McCawley, Adequacy of Current State Setbacks for Directional High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus, Barnett, and Niobrara Shale Playshttps://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/advpub/2016/2/ehp.1510547.acco.pdf

Risk to Children

Bodies are still developing

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Risk to Children

Risk to Children

Fracking In Your CommunityOur Community

Concerns In Salem

Fracking In Your CommunityOur CommunitySalem & Surrounding Community

Images from:

Fracking In Your CommunityOur CommunityStatewide Progression

Our CommunityMariner East 2

Kirk Jalbert, PhD, MFA, Fractracker Alliance, Mariner East 2: At-Risk Schools and Populations

https://www.fractracker.org/2016/12/me2-schools-populations/

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What You Can Do

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What You Can Do

What are Act 14 Municipal Notifications?

Why are they important?

Role of Local GovernmentWhat You Can Do

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What You Can Do

Municipalities have the power to:●

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What You Can Do

Take PrecautionsWhen an activity raises threats of harm to the environment

or human health, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.

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Added Protections

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Air Monitor in Homes & Schools

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Communicate Your Needs

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Create a Remediation Plan

What You Can DoKeeping Families Safe

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● Salem Township Pipeline Explosion, April 29th, 2016. Resulted in a

one-quarter mile evacuation and injury to one person, destruction of

one home and damage to several others.

What You Can DoCommunity Involvement

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What You Can Do

Contact Appropriate Agencies

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Summary

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Take action to protect the residents & workers by requesting health & safety technologies be used

Goal: Health & Safety of Community & Workers