New study: Air pollution, including wildfire smoke, NOx, ozone and particulate matter, associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Too many humans making too much pollution, notably rich white fuckers frac’ing us to death. Hold your breath in NEBC and Alberta!

Schlumberger frac’ing and polluting Albertans

News Briefs Air Pollution Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis by UCLA Health, February 2026

A study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology found that exposure to air pollution – including wildfire smoke, nitrogen oxides (NOxspewed by frac compressors), ozone, and particulate matter (PM10)-significantly increases the risk for developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and RA-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD).

Above photos: Some of Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx) frac compressors around Rosebud, Alberta

Researchers analyzed data from nearly 80,000 U.S. Veterans, focusing on rates of new-onset RA and related lung complications, compared to exposure levels to different pollutants.

The study showed that exposure to fire smoke PM2.5 (fine particles less than 10 microns) were associated with a greater likelihood of developing seronegative RA, particularly when comparing the highest and lowest pollution quartiles. Seronegative RA is a type of RA where a person experiences classic RA symptoms – such as joint pain, swelling, morning stiffness, and fatigue – blood tests for rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies are negative. This makes it harder to diagnose as physicians must rely on clinical symptoms, imaging, and additional lab tests. The disease often still behaves like seropositive RA and can cause similar joint inflammation and damage. Treatment is usually very similar to seropositive RA.

The study findings confirm that while certain types of air pollution may trigger inflammatory joint and lung diseasesk, not all pollutants have the same effect. The trigger harmful pollutants primarily originate from wildfires, traffic, and fossil fuel combustion and seem to provoke or intensify immune-related inflammation in susceptible individuals.

Oil patch pollution blowing into Calgary, Alberta.

Hold your breath! It’s unhealthy to breath in Alberta!

Night frac in Rocky View County, Alberta. Hold your breath all day and night long.

Encana/Ovintiv et al frac pollution in NEBC

Hold your breath, and that of your loved ones!

Frac central Fox Creek Alberta, photo by Kyle Brittain

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New review: What’s destroying life on earth? Human overpopulation. Having 1 less child is 50 times more effective in reducing individual carbon footprints than other actions. “With human numbers doubling on Earth between 1970 and 2020, demand for freshwater resources for domestic use increased globally by 600%” while frac’ers permanently remove from the hydrogeological cycle 25-100% of the water they inject. “Re-fracturing may take place up to four times” on individual wells.

Another study shows air pollution (caused by human greed and over population) is causing devastating forms of dementia. No wonder the world is filling with Fucker Truckers and MAGAts. COVID harms brains too, which are filling with microplastics. What are the cumulative harms?

Another study shows air pollution (caused by human greed and over population) is causing devastating forms of dementia. No wonder the world is filling with Fucker Truckers and MAGAts. COVID harms brains too, which are filling with microplastics. What are the cumulative harms?

Microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) increasing in humans as oil & gas industry plastics increase in the environment over time; found highest in the brain presenting as nanoscale shard-like fragments and “even greater accumulation…was observed in a cohort of decedent brains with documented dementia diagnosis, with notable deposition in cerebrovascular walls and immune cells.”

New research: Air pollution: a latent key driving force of dementia including Alzheimer’s.

Pollution could be damaging your brain, even leading to dementia but Health Canada still not making public their 2012 damning report admitting significant health hazards and risks to groundwater and air caused by frac’ing!

Fossil fuel pollution (and wildfire smoke) harms brains. “The higher the exposure to PM2.5, the greater the extent of Alzheimer’s disease.” PM2.5 is “easily inhaled, the particles enter the bloodstream and circulate through the body; they can also travel directly from the nose to the brain.”

Ecological disaster unfolding on Australia coast. Anthony Roland: “Everyone was coughing.” Algal blooms can kill, have been linked to degenerative diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s. “It seems that these normally docile and shy fish had somehow become demented by the algal bloom.” Dr. Paul Alan Cox: “There’s a strong link between environmental degradation and loss of human health.”

Tap Water: A Toxic Brew? Quebec study found 50 different kinds of pesticides and metabolites, including brain damaging carcinogen glyphosate.

EPA’s IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System, created in 1985) measures threat of toxic chemicals. Musk’s Nazis intend to kill it. Hello toxicity and frac pollution everywhere. Eliminating use of IRIS’ chemical assessments “completely off the deep end.”

New study: Even *brief* contact with widely used weed ‘n tree killer Bayer-Monsanto’s roundup (glyphosate) can cause lasting brain damage, harms may persist long after exposure ended, and aminomethylphosphonic acid, a byproduct, accumulates in brain tissue. Is glyphosate directly causing the mystery brain illness in over 400 New Brunswickers?

New USA wide study links outdoor NO2 levels and ovarian cancer – the deadliest gynecologic cancer among women (frac compressors/burning natural gas creates NO2).

New research: Fossil fuel pollution irreversibly harms kids’ brains, including causing cancer. Imagine babies born into and growing up in bitumen, H2S and or frac fields (rampant in Alberta) where crews spew clouds of diesel fumes and facilities blast out mystery chemicals 24/7 for years on end as they frac and refrac and refrac. No wonder Albertans vote so stupidly.

West Virginia’s frac cruelty and toxic harms: EQT poisons, sickens and drives four families from their homes. Abby Tennant: “Our home is no longer a home. It is a place of sickness, confusion and sadness.” Remember Baytex?

No surprise: New study by UChicago links frac’ing to heart and respiratory disease among older adults living near unconventional (un)natural gas development.

Pennsylvania Senate Hearing: Large, growing, consistent, compelling body of evidence shows frac’ing negatively impacts public health; PA must act. Ten years later, Health Canada still won’t publicly release their frac hazard study. In Canada, frac panel members lie, ignore evidence; authorities refuse to study cumulative harms; “regulators” like AER refuse to enforce the law while engaging in fraud to serve law-violating polluters (most foreign owned) and further abuse the harmed.

Visualize your brain in a frac field: Air pollution spikes may impair older men’s thinking, study finds, Even short, temporary increases in airborne particles can damage brain health, research suggests

More Oil & Gas Industry Pollution Health Harm Cover-up. Kert Davies: “We’ve seen the oil and gas industry’s disinformation campaign come full circle with the renewed attacks on research that tells us what we’ve known for decades – air pollution kills”

New study: Unconventional oil/gas development has larger impact on ambient particle radioactivity (PR) level compared to conventional; Widespread upwind unconventional/frac activities could significantly elevate PR level in downwind communities and induce adverse health effects to residents.

2021: New study: Fossil fuels caused 8.7 million deaths globally in 2018, one in five of all people who died that year, exceeds combined total who die globally each year from smoking tobacco plus those who die of malaria. “Without fossil fuel emissions…global economic and health costs would fall by about $2.9tn.” $2.9 Trillion!

Frac’ing takes our eyesight too? New study: Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss

Another new study: Living near oil & gas wells tied to low birth weights in infants, adds to growing body of evidence linking proximity to oil & gas to adverse health outcomes, including heart defects, cancer …

Bravo! Prevent Cancer Now calls out AER’s Health Fraud! “The AER has no jurisdiction for human health, and Alberta is famed for a chill against the medical community linking ill health to petrochemicals.”

1982 Alberta: Sour gas and sickness; Smelly smelly run-around. Regulators/Health authorities, then and now, lie to the harmed, coddle the polluters. Alberta’s Pollution Solution: Discredit the poisoned; call them crazy.

Enter hide and seek by health authorities:

Why was a 2012 Health Canada Report, admitting significant health hazards and risks to groundwater and air from hydraulic fracturing, kept from the public?