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Fracking linked to rape, meth addiction, and STDs
2013-10-21 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: 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...
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