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Tom Langen Associate Professor Departments of Biology & Psychology Clarkson University Box 5805, Clarkson U., Potsdam NY 13699-5805 Phone: 315 268 7933, Fax: 315 268 7118 www.clarkson.edu/~tlangen -----Original Message----- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Halpern Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 9:51 AM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] PA high school to host bizarre swim meet - in fracking fluid http://blog.ucsusa.org/pennsylvania-high-school-to-host-bizarre-swim-meet-in-fracking-fluid/ In what one concerned parent is calling "outrageous," the Pennsylvania Department of Environment is allowing two eastern Pennsylvania high schools to stage a bizarre boys swim meet this coming Friday-in a swimming pool filled with fracking fluid. The event is being held to demonstrate the safety of the fluid, a byproduct of the oil and gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking. Some politicians have pulled similar scientifically questionable stunts to reassure the public that fracking fluid is benign. Governor John Hickenlooper (D-CO), for example, went so far as to drink a glass of the fluid <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/gov-john-hickenlooper-drank-fracking-fluid-hydraulic-fracturing_n_2674453.html> in 2012. <snip> -Michael Michael Halpern Center for Science and Democracy Union of Concerned Scientists Follow me on Twitter @MichaelUCS<https://twitter.com/michaelucs> Read my most recent blog posts<blog.ucsusa.org/author/michael-halpern> Call me at 202.331.5452
