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Monthly meetings are every 3rd Wednesday, 7- 8 pm, at the Augusta Senior Center
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.
Cozy Theatre
Colfax Municipal Building
613 Main St.
Colfax
Listen to an excerpt describing the health issues resulting from the lack of regulation on airborne crystalline silica (PM2.5) dust.
Watch a Frontline documentary showing people who have advanced pulmonary disease resulting from inhalation of silica dust.
See the data from air monitoring done around local frac sand mines by Dr. Crispin Pierce, a professor of Environmental Public Health at UW-Eau Claire and his graduate students.
Learn what can be done to prevent this catastrophe from happening in Wisconsin.
Celeste Monforton, a former top official at the Mine Safety and Health Administration says, “It’s pretty difficult to hear the miners just working so hard to catch their breath and to know that the reason for that is those exposures at work that we absolutely know how to prevent,” Monforton adds that she now understands the consequences of not focusing on silica dust sooner.
“Had we taken action, I really believe that we would not be seeing the disease that we are seeing now,” Monforton says. “It’s abundantly clear in what we’re seeing. This problem really is a silica problem…this is such a gross and frank example of regulatory failure.”
Respiratory problems are already being seen in people living near frac sand mines. Action needs to be taken before it becomes as widespread as in Appalachia.
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.
Cozy Theatre
Colfax Municipal Building
613 Main St.
Colfax
(Free and open to the public)
There will be a short intermission with refreshments at 2:45 between
the Frontline Documentary and the local air monitoring data presentation
Cozy Theatre
Colfax Municipal Building
613 Main St.
Colfax
Listen to an excerpt describing the health issues resulting from the lack of regulation on airborne crystalline silica (PM2.5) dust.
Watch a Frontline documentary showing people who have advanced pulmonary disease resulting from inhalation of silica dust.
See the data from air monitoring done around local frac sand mines by Dr. Crispin Pierce, a professor of Environmental Public Health at UW-Eau Claire and his graduate students.
Learn what can be done to prevent this catastrophe from happening in Wisconsin.
Celeste Monforton, a former top official at the Mine Safety and Health Administration says, “It’s pretty difficult to hear the miners just working so hard to catch their breath and to know that the reason for that is those exposures at work that we absolutely know how to prevent,” Monforton adds that she now understands the consequences of not focusing on silica dust sooner.
“Had we taken action, I really believe that we would not be seeing the disease that we are seeing now,” Monforton says. “It’s abundantly clear in what we’re seeing. This problem really is a silica problem…this is such a gross and frank example of regulatory failure.”
Respiratory problems are already being seen in people living near frac sand mines. Action needs to be taken before it becomes as widespread as in Appalachia.
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.
Cozy Theatre
Colfax Municipal Building
613 Main St.
Colfax
(Free and open to the public)
There will be a short intermission with refreshments at 2:45 between
the Frontline Documentary and the local air monitoring data presentation
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