February 11, 2012
I talked about visiting a Marcellus Shale drilling site last spring. I didn’t say much about the noise. But it was …loud. I guess the noise starts well before the drilling begins. And we know quite a bit about the effects of noise on human health. The Environmental Protection Agency summarizes it at this link: http://www.epa.gov/air/noise.html …things like increased blood pressure, hearing loss, sleep loss, and then loss of productivity…
http://youtu.be/g_95vu-J6Vs
