Did you know the gas running through Rover will be radioactive?

This information comes from Marvin Resnikoff, PhD in Physics from the University of Michigan (source: https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/radiation/radonmarcellus.pdf )

• The natural gas that the Rover pipeline will be transporting comes from the Marcellus shale. Resnikoff notes: "wellhead concentrations [of radioactivity] in Marcellus shale are up to 70 times the average in natural gas wells throughout the U.S."
• This is further reason for us to be concerned about the fact that Rover does not plan to add scent to the gas. We now have three major safety­related reasons to be alarmed about this lack of scent:

○ Increased danger of explosion (see https://sites.google.com/view/overwithrover/faqs)

○ Increased danger of carbon monoxide poisoning

○ Elevated risk of lung cancer from radon.

• The gas's radioactivity also means that the gas will pose a health risk to the end­users in Canada. "Being an inert gas, radon will not be destroyed when natural gas is burned in a kitchen stove."
• This will end up killing Canadians. Supposing the gas were to go to New York State instead of Canada, Resnikoff writes: "We calculate the number of excess lung cancer deaths for New York State. Our results: the potential number of fatal lung cancer deaths due to radon in natural gas from the Marcellus shale range from 1,182 to 30,448. This is an additional number of lung cancer deaths due to radon from Marcellus Shale over deaths from natural radon already impacting New York State homes and their residents."