Utah Baby Massacre Right Now. 'Kill The Messenger', 'Kill More Babies!' Men On The Loose Say

Infants and young babies are being massacred in a wild scene in Utah’s rural Uinta Basin, according to a doctor and a midwife who’ve gotten the message out through Truthout Sunday.

Babies Dying, Kill the Messenger

A sudden and extreme spike in neonatal mortality is occurring and the woman who has exposed this is now being targeted in ways known to virtually all targeted Individuals.

According to Dr. Brian Moenche, toxic air pollution related to fossil fuel drilling/fracking in Eastern Utah is the likely cause of a horrendous dead baby spike, and ”local poobahs want to kill the messenger.” 

Donna Young lives in Vernal, Utah with 20 years  under her belt as a midwife in Idaho and Utah. She lives in the Uinta Basin, the fossil fuel drilling/fracking heart of Eastern Utah.

On May 8, 2013, Young had her first stillbirth. At thefuneral, she noted an extraordinary number of infant graves with recent dates at the cemetery. She began investigating.

She got no help from local authorities, or big money rollers, the type funding O’Keefe for his investigations and targeting individuals. 

Eventually, however, obituaries and mortuaries revealed 12 cases of neonatal mortality (most of them stillborn, or death shortly after birth), in 2013 alone. There was a huge spike in 2013.

This is sparsely populated rural Utah. Vernal is a town of fewer than 10,000 people. But per capita, this is a neonatal mortality six times the national average. 

“It is actually worse than it appears,” Dr. Moench says. “National infant mortality rates have been dropping slowly and steadily for almost 50 years, including about a 10 to 15 percent drop in the last decade.

“Furthermore, most of Utah is about 50 percent Mormon, so the rate of drinking and smoking is less than the national average throughout the state. The minority population in rural Utah, like Vernal, is very low, and the percentage of Mormons is even higher, both of which should lower the infant mortality rates, all other things being equal”

What is going on in Utah’s Uinta Basin to explain newborn babies dying? An abrupt surge in teenage mothers, drug, alcohol use? No evidence of that. A g enetic explanation? Sudden onset of medical incompetence by the area’s health-care providers? No reason to think so. There was obviously another answer.

“Major cities with pollution problems have either high ozone, like Los Angeles, or high particulate pollution, like Salt Lake City, depending on the time of year. But the Uinta Basin has both simultaneously, making it unique and the most polluted part of the state. Studies suggest the two might act synergistically to impair human health, according to Moench.

“Add to that high levels of the by-products of every phase of the oil and gas fracking extraction process – diesel emissions and hazardous compounds like benzene, toluene and naphthene, and you have a uniquely toxic air pollution brew in Vernal.

“Inhaling air pollution has the same systemic health consequences as cigarette smoking, only to a lesser degree – unless you’re doing your inhaling in Beijing, China, then eliminate the “lesser.” The signature physiologic consequence of air pollution, be it from smoke stacks, tail pipes, fracking or cigarettes, is an inflammatory response that reduces blood flow.

“Diseases of virtually every organ system can follow. Strokes, heart attacks, every type of lung disease, cognitive impairment, cancer, accelerated aging and sudden death, including infant mortality, all occur at higher rates among people exposed to air pollution.

Pregnant Mothers

“In the case of a pregnant mother, the placenta is compromised for the same reason, and it should be easily understood then that pregnancy complications and impaired fetal development – think birth defects, miscarriages and stillbirths – can be the result.” 

Study after study show this.

Increased infant mortality in the Uinta Basin could be due to increased air pollution, as suggested by medical research.

“It is not only plausible, but very likely,” Dr. Moench reports..

But wait. There’s more, “much more” according to the doctor.

“If you do a Google search for ‘pollution in Vernal, Utah’ you will see a picture of a man at a street corner holding up a sign that says, ‘Honk if you love drilling.’ Vernal politicians certainly do. With jobs, increased tax base, new community recreation centers, burgeoning store fronts on Main Street, people with money to spend – what’s not to like?

Well, dead babies perhaps, the doctor suggests. What else? “Someone who calls attention to the dead babies – a concerned midwife for example.”

Young has joined the ranks of America’s finest. She became a targeted individual  - “by the community’s power brokers as whistleblowers often are,” Dr. Moench says.

Like most targeted individuals, Young now knows what it’s like to receive a threatening “legal” letter from the local hospital. Sh knows what it’s like to be the but of rumors based on lies. 

A local doctor told Young that everyone is against her – “everyone wants to take her down “politically” and ruin her career,” according to Dr. Moenche.

She knows what it’s like to be threatened with phone call and to hear she’ll be ruined forever, just as james O’Keefe’s buddies phoned to tell  Josh and Becca Tickell this week and just as countless other targets of Big Energy experience.

Young’s received ominous, threatening phone calls.

Since Young stepped forward, however, “a mother in Vernal contacted us about a rare birth defect her six-month old has that threatens her baby’s ability to breathe,” Dr. Moenche reported. “Two houses away, her neighbor’s three-month old baby has the same birth defect.

Checking with the local pediatrics clinic, Dr. Moench and Young found 30 patients with the same rare birth defect – amounting to at least seven times the normal rate of one in 2,100 live births.

This drama is also a larger metaphor with global implications. Eastern Utah could be considered ground zero for the battle to keep the world’s fossil fuels in the ground. Utah is also “blessed/cursed” with the largest unconventional fossil fuel reservoir in the U.S. and perhaps the world – oil shale and tar sands deposits are 25 times larger than those in Alberta, Canada, according to Moenche. 

“Using geology-based assessment methodology, the US Geological Survey estimated a total of 4.285 trillion barrels of oil in the oil shale of the three principal basins of the Eocene Green River Formation, near Vernal, Utah. If those deposits are extracted and burned (and the process would be much more carbon intensive than conventional oil and gas drilling), Utah would become home to the largest known carbon “bomb” on the planet. More “game over” for the planet than the Keystone pipeline.

The international medical community has called the climate crisis, “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century and… could put lives and well-being of billions of people at increased risk.”

The most vulnerable are the unborn, infants and children. Adults paying the highest toll are mothers. 

Utah’s governor, most legislators, and seemingly most BIN readers say that’s just fine with them, not only fine, but enthusiastically promoted by some, including the likes of James O’Keef, his fans, Uinta County commissioners and its local politicians.

It’s fraught with irony because numerous projections on global warming predict Utah will become North America’s greatest warming “victim” outside the Arctic, says Dr. Moenche.

2008 projections suggested temperatures might rise 9 degrees F in Utah by 2100, but scientists’ calculations have have become more alarming since.

“A rise of this magnitude will decimate the ecosystems that are necessary to support human life – it means dramatically more drought, shrinking snow pack and water resources, more wildfires and dead forests, unsustainable agriculture, and apocalyptic dust storms – a complete collapse of the human carrying capacity of the Western United States.

“And it means more dead babies, a lot more.”