Health Conference Focused On Everything From Shale Drilling To Bed Bugs

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The effects of Marcellus Shale drilling on our water and air were among the subjects at a conference at Oglebay Park on public health issues.

The annual conference, hosted by the Ohio County Health Department, presented experts including the man who sampled air quality at Mt. St. Helens and the Kuwait oil fires.

They spoke at length about gas drilling in the Ohio Valley.

The health experts on the panel today said wells in the area are leaking benzene, toluene, formaldehyde and xylene.

They say three wells in this area have exploded in the past.

Hundreds from the public health fields attended.

Speakers addressed how air quality could be better monitored, and how the experts feel about the proposed well to be drilled near Wheeling Park High School.

"Well, I think it's a mistake for the industry to come in and subject the students to what is really a poorly designed experiment," said Dr. Benjamin Stout of Wheeling Jesuit University. "What is our kids' health going to be like 10 or 20 years down the road?"

And Dr. Michael McCawley of West Virginia University spoke on the need for monitoring air quality.

"Of course the concerns are the volatile organic chemicals and the particulates," said McCawley. "And one of the things I've been talking about is making the concentrations in the air a transparent issue, with the monitors to be set up online, with the data available to anyone who wants to see it."

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