“My children started getting sick,” says Lois Bower-Bjornson, a campaigner(活动人士) at the Clean Air Council(清洁空气委员会) in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
“我的孩子们开始生病了，”宾夕法尼亚州华盛顿县清洁空气委员会的活动人士洛伊斯·鲍尔-比约恩森说道。
“My oldest son had rashes(皮疹) all over his body. His ears, his eyelids, everywhere. My youngest had terrible nosebleeds(鼻出血), it was so bad that he became anaemic(贫血的) and would almost pass out(晕倒). He would wake up bleeding.”
“我的大儿子全身起皮疹。耳朵、眼皮，到处都是。我最小的孩子鼻血严重，严重到贫血，几乎要晕倒。他醒来时还在流血。”
Bower-Bjornson blames her children’s health problems on the 36 fracking(水力压裂法) wells that surround her property in the greater Appalachian region of the US. She also places some of the responsibility on Ineos, a British company privately owned by British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner of Premier League football club Manchester United. New analysis has revealed that Ineos is spearheading growth in the US fracked ethane trade to produce plastic that is used in consumer items in Europe, with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions.(新分析显示，英力士正引领美国压裂乙烷贸易的增长，用于生产欧洲消费品中的塑料，可能带来深远的环境和社会影响。)
鲍尔-比约恩森将孩子们的健康问题归咎于环绕她家在美国阿巴拉契亚大区的36口压裂井。她也把部分责任归到英力士公司身上——这家英国公司由英国亿万富翁、英超曼联俱乐部共同所有者吉姆·拉特克利夫爵士私人拥有。新分析显示，英力士正引领美国压裂乙烷贸易的增长，用于生产欧洲消费品中的塑料，可能带来深远的环境和社会影响。