Number of students with Tourette symptoms grows

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I really don't understand why everyone doesn't see the obvious. Leroy sits in a highly unusually strong magnetic field, unexplained by scientists for years. This force is a huge draw to alien creatures. There can be no question that these teen age girls have been abducted by the aliens, returned, and are now experiencing neurological abnormalities as a result of too many crossed magnetic pulse field spacial experiments.

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And that explains my exs issues... 8)
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Some results in from EPA testing in LeRoy
Some results are in from EPA testing in LeRoy. The Environmental Protection Agency looked at 240 drums of soil and rock material at the site of a 1970’s train derailment. Cyanide spilled just four miles from the high school.

80 of the drums have been tested and ruled non-hazardous. TCE was detected in one drum. That’s a chemical compound used in industrial solvent. But the EPA says the levels were so low, they aren’t dangerous.

There were no detectable levels of Cyanide in any of the drums. The other drums are still being tested.

All of this comes after more than a dozen people in LeRoy complained of having Tourette-like symptoms. The EPA is trying to rule out environmental factors.

For more Rochester, N.Y. news, go to www.whec.com
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Other theories?
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a relative of mad cow disease
Ugandan nodding disease, a very real and horrible health problem now affecting thousands in that African nation.
caused by a mass psychogenic disorder.
There is, though, one further theory that is gaining some traction: Ergot.

Ergot is a type of fungi that grow in grains and grasses, particularly rye. They produce alkaloids that are dangerous to people and animals that take them in. They’re sometimes mentioned as a suspected cause of the erratic behavior by residents of Salem, Mass., that gave rise to that town’s infamous witch trials in the 17th century.
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Physicians say there are no known toxins that can cause the types of obvious physical symptoms exhibited by the affected Le Roy students. Unfortunately, fracking fluids contain such a mix of toxic chemicals there’s no way to predict, or prove, physical symptoms that result.

There are six gas wells on the LeRoy school grounds. According to permit documents, those are shale gas wells. A CNN report last week said there were two reported spills on school grounds not long before the girls started showing symptoms. Unless those spills were mitigated – those toxic fluids are still in the ground, near playing fields and areas where students sit, play, walk. Is it possible that no adults have developed symptoms because it’s much more likely for students than for teachers to sit on the ground? And maybe girls more than boys because girls are more likely to have bare legs? Why weren’t parents and students told? And why weren’t the sites mitigated immediately? Are there other sites no one knows about yet?

Penn Environment just released a report documenting that out of 4,596 Marcellus Shale wells drilled in PA between 2008 and 2011, gas operators accumulated 3,355 violations of environmental laws. Those are reported violations. How many spills, deliberate leaks, "accidental dumpings" of fracking fluid have taken place since the drilling started? Where? When? We have no way of knowing - and the fines are currently so low that the gas companies are apparently finding it less expensive to risk fines than to make sure fluids are handled safely and responsibly.

Yes, nerve damage has been reported in areas with shale gas drilling. Given the toxic cocktails of unreported chemicals, any kind of nerve damage or other physical reaction would be possible after exposure to a fracking fluid spill.

Anyone who withholds or conceals information about shale gas violations, spills, or leaks should be found guilty of public endangerment and should serve time. And any corporation with repeated safety violations should lose the right to drill and should have its wells impounded.
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Interesting...

From CNN..."In July 2011, some of the tanks at the well sites leaked fluid on to athletic fields. Some trees died."

So in all reality, there is a huge probability that these kids were playing sports or recreating on the fields. Only a month or two after the spill. Although why only a small percentage of them?

It's instances such as these that are making me rethink my stance on fracking. :oops:
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The thing is... there's not a known component of fracked natural gas that causes neurological symptoms such as this...
Luckily though... it's easy to take a sample of known gas and analyze it (gas spectrometry)
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The difficulty with fracking fluid is the combination is different for every company - and no one has tested what the various combinations of fluids or gases would do in the human body. So anyone living near a shale gas well is part of a poorly run, very dangerous experiment, with no one keeping track of inputs, and those with information unwilling to disclose results.
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These types of wells have been in operation around the united states since the early 50's. It is very well known what chemical components are used in fracturing. Regardless of the amounts, no hydraulic fracturing catalyst is known to cause these types of systems.
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