Fracking - where is it headed ?

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Penn’s fracking sites tied with higher hospitalization rates
Daily Times Gazette - - 7/18/15

Fracking is associated with higher hospitalization rates claims the research done by the Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania.
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They compared Bradford and Susquehanna where drilling is active to their control group, Wayne County where extraction has been banned.

Researchers connected the dots when they analyzed 198,000 hospitalization records from 2007 to 2011 in Northern Pennsylvania counties. They categorized at least 25 medical scenarios and linked those cases with their proximity within different fracking sites.
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The results showed that indeed, hospitalization rates are higher in places where fracking is practice than those that do not. Around 18 zip code areas have been identified to have a well density higher than 0.79 wells per square kilometer. Those citizens residing in those zip codes have at least 27% risk higher than those areas situated far from extraction points.