A lightweight splint used for immobilizing fractured or injured extremities. It is usually an inflatable cylinder, open at both ends, that becomes rigid when inflated, thus preventing the part confined in the cylinder from moving. Synonym: blow-up splint; inflatable splint.
In fact, a growing body of data indicates that fracking is an environmental and public health disaster in the making. However, the true toll of fracking does not end there. Frackingâs negative impacts on our environment and health come with heavy âdollars and centsâ costs as well.
All too often, the natural gas released from fracking is burned, wasted, and damagingly released into the atmosphere â about 400 million tons of carbon emissions per year globally. Every year, the equivalent of 30 percent of E.U. and 25 percent of the U.S. gas consumption is flared globally.