Sunday, September 01, 2013

Fracking destroys federally protected species.

The species is part of a food chain. They are consumed by birds and other wildlife. Over predation was never an issue; a female spawns over 1500 eggs at a time. It is human pollution that originally was killing them and this is just about as pathetic as it comes. Thank Dick Cheney for this idiocy.

5:23 pm
Wed August 28, 2013
A joint study (click here) by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pointing to natural gas fracking as the cause of widespread death of fish in an Eastern Kentucky stream.
The report found that hydraulic fracturing fluids—which are used to help extract the gas from the ground—spilled from a natural gas well site near Acorn Fork in 2007. After that, scientists saw a sharp decline in aquatic life in the stream. One of the species affected—the Blackside dace—is federally threatened....
“One particular area immediately downstream of one well (click here) had conductivities, which is a measure of dissolved minerals and salts in the water, more like what you’d find in seawater. Now in those areas, you can imagine, there wasn’t much living there.” –Anthony Velasco

Just in case there is any doubt.

Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R4–ES–2008–N0183; 40120–1113–0000–C4]
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; 5-Year Status Review of 20
Southeastern Species
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION:Notice. 
SUMMARY:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service) is initiating 5-year
status reviews of the slender chub(Erimystax cahni), blackside dace(Phoxinus cumberlandensis), vermillion
darter (Etheostoma chermocki),...
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