{"id":337,"date":"2011-11-23T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T15:20:00","slug":"the-fracturing-of-pennsylvania-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"The Fracturing of Pennsylvania – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fracturing of Pennsylvania – NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is less than 20 miles away from my home…<\/p>\n

That same day, when Voyles told Range Resources she had developed blisters in her nose, it offered to put her up in a hotel, as it does for all nuisance complaints, but she didn\u2019t want to leave her dogs and horses behind. (Range later said that it had no record of the complaint.) Next door on McAdams Road, Haney and her kids began to have intense periods of dizziness and nosebleeds. Of the three, Harley was the worst off. Haney took him to their family physician, Craig Fox, in the nearby town of Washington. Like most local doctors, Dr. Fox had never seen such symptoms before.<\/p>\n

Haney says that Dr. Fox\u2019s advice to her was unequivocal: \u201cGet Harley out of that house right away. I don\u2019t want him anywhere near there, even driving by, for 30 days.\u201d So Haney took Harley to a friend\u2019s house in Eighty-Four, a town named for the lumber company. She took her daughter to her parents\u2019 house in Amity. Each day, she spent about four hours in the car shuttling the kids from school, to and from friends\u2019 homes and driving to the farm to feed the animals, which were O.K. some days and vomiting or collapsing on others. Haney found a cousin willing to take her pigs, but she had nowhere to house the other animals, so they remained at the farm. She stayed home for less than an hour at a time, long enough to put a load of laundry into the washer. Every two days, she spent $50 on gas. Their farmhouse stood abandoned. \u201cOur home has become a $300,000 cat mansion,\u201d Haney said when I visited her in July.<\/p>\n

Haney is no left-leaning environmentalist; she is a self-proclaimed redneck who is proud to trace her roots here back at least 150 years. This is not the kind of fight she usually takes on. \u201cI\u2019m not going to sit back and let them make my kids sick,\u201d she says. \u201cPeople ask me why I don\u2019t just move out, but where would I go? I can\u2019t afford another mortgage, and if I default on this place, we will lose it. \u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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