People die from fracking, both from contamination and on the job.

Deaths from fracking contamination

Cause and effect is notoriously difficult to prove for deaths from chemical or radiation contamination, but here are some that seem very likely:

• Sharon Kelly, Desmogblog.com, 24 July 2014, After Rancher’s Death, Calls for Fracking Health Study Grow Stronger,

  Last month, Terry Greenwood, a Pennsylvania farmer whose water had been contaminated by fracking waste, died of cancer. He was 66 and the cause of death was a rare form of brain cancer.

  His death drew attention Continue reading Deaths and occupational hazards from fracking →