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Fracking linked to rape, meth addiction, and STDs
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Fracking linked to rape, meth addiction, and STDs
By Holly Richmond
Yet another reason to hate fracking: Its connected with an increase in STDs, car crashes, drug-related crimes, and sexual assault in areas where the oil and gas industry sets up shop. Or in Vice-speak, fracking workers have an insatiable appetite for raw sex and hard drugs. Writes Peter Rugh on Vice:
Yikes. You can correlation doesnt equal causation all day, but Rugh is persuasive: Fracking workers are overworked, undertrained, and seven times more likely to die on the job than the rest of us. (On a rig, 12-hour shifts are the new normal.) So workers are under an unbelievable amount of stress and its yielding antisocial results. Food and Water Watch certainly agrees:
Then again, one retired drill worker told Vice that FWW is smearing fracking because Big Coal is lining its pockets. (FWW program director Emily Wurth, of course, denied this.)
But no matter how you slice it, the correlation between fracking towns and meth-fueled crime, auto accidents, rape, and gonorrhea is hella scary. The easy reaction is Fracking suxx! A more nuanced response might be, Lets get more clean energy jobs, training for those jobs, consent-based sex ed, oil spill condoms widely available contraception, drug treatment programs, and eight-hour shifts.
Thats not very catchy, though.
Fracking linked to rape, meth addiction, and STDs
By Holly Richmond
Yet another reason to hate fracking: Its connected with an increase in STDs, car crashes, drug-related crimes, and sexual assault in areas where the oil and gas industry sets up shop. Or in Vice-speak, fracking workers have an insatiable appetite for raw sex and hard drugs. Writes Peter Rugh on Vice:
Critics of fracking have compared it to raping the Earth, but where drilling has spread, literal rape has followed. Violence against woman in fracking boomtowns in North Dakota and Montana has increased so sharply that the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced in June that it plans to spend half a million dollars investigating the correlation The DoJ speculated that oil industry camps may be impacting domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the direct and surrounding communities in which they reside.
Yikes. You can correlation doesnt equal causation all day, but Rugh is persuasive: Fracking workers are overworked, undertrained, and seven times more likely to die on the job than the rest of us. (On a rig, 12-hour shifts are the new normal.) So workers are under an unbelievable amount of stress and its yielding antisocial results. Food and Water Watch certainly agrees:
Weve found that fracking brought a host of social costs to communities where drilling has begun, said FWWs Program Director Emily Wurth. These are the real costs of fracking that are never discussed.
Then again, one retired drill worker told Vice that FWW is smearing fracking because Big Coal is lining its pockets. (FWW program director Emily Wurth, of course, denied this.)
But no matter how you slice it, the correlation between fracking towns and meth-fueled crime, auto accidents, rape, and gonorrhea is hella scary. The easy reaction is Fracking suxx! A more nuanced response might be, Lets get more clean energy jobs, training for those jobs, consent-based sex ed, oil spill condoms widely available contraception, drug treatment programs, and eight-hour shifts.
Thats not very catchy, though.
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Fracking linked to rape, meth addiction, and STDs (Original Post)
bananas
Oct 2013
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Blue Owl
(50,514 posts)1. Hmm sounds like some good material for Vince Gilligan
Maybe a new series on AMC called "Fracking Bad"?
cui bono
(19,926 posts)3. Fracked Up.
Blue Owl
(50,514 posts)4. Frack Job
n/t
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)2. All Nonunion Workers
The Worst of the Worst Boomtown Rats
applegrove
(118,809 posts)5. I knew a cab driver who moved to Fort
McMurry, Alberta where the Canadian Tar Sands industry is. He only lasted a few months there because he said the illegal drug business that surrounded the oil industry made driving a cab there much more dangerous than driving a cab in Montreal. It seems easy money and youth is a dangerous combination. Why in colorado some dark money tea party group had documents found in a meth house.