Fracking
This is some serious shit. David (my husband) and I went to a public meeting about this two weekends ago in PA, but it affects New York as well. Please read this and pass the information on. (I'm doing this quickly, so please copy and paste the URLs into your browers -- I'll change it all into links later) ...
Dear Friend,
As part of the Bush-Cheney legacy, the oil and gas industry is
accomplishing what we feared would come from foreign terrorists: the
contamination of our water supplies.
Gas companies use the Halliburton-invented hydraulic fracturing
process to drill a mile or deeper, forcing one to four millions of
gallons of water and toxic chemicals into the earth with each
drilling. The waste water, stored in open pits on site, contains the
deadly chemicals as well as underground radiation.
The 2005 Energy Bill exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe
Drinking Water, Clean Air, and Clean Water acts.
Gas companies have been drilling and polluting across the country. Now
they’re in New York—and they have leased land near and in the New York
City watershed to drill for natural gas using hydraulic fracturing.
If the drilling moves forward, New York City will have to build a
filtration plant at a cost of at least $10 billion. However, it is
unknown if the chemicals involved in drilling can be filtered out—
especially since by law these chemicals may be kept secret.
How can you help? Here are two ways.
1. Please sign this petition to protect New York City’s water.
http://citizenspeak.org/node/1436
2. US Congressman Maurice Hinchey, from New York, has co-sponsored the
bill HR 7231, reinserting the regulation of Safe Drinking Water for
hydraulic fracturing.
It’s not enough, but it’s a start. Please email your Congressperson
and ask her or him to support HR7231.
Here’s what I wrote my Congressman: Please support HR 7231 and help
protect our drinking water from unregulated gas drilling practices. In
addition to repealing the exemption of the Safe Drinking Water Act
from hydraulic fracturing, please support repealing the exemption of
the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. It is very dangerous for this
practice to be exempt from environmental regulations. Thank you.
For a quick link to your Congressperson, use this link:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
To learn more about hydraulic fracturing, read this Scientific
American article:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=drill-for-natural-gas-pollute-water
"What's In That Fracking Fluid?": http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/08-12-04/fracking.pdf
Dear Friend,
As part of the Bush-Cheney legacy, the oil and gas industry is
accomplishing what we feared would come from foreign terrorists: the
contamination of our water supplies.
Gas companies use the Halliburton-invented hydraulic fracturing
process to drill a mile or deeper, forcing one to four millions of
gallons of water and toxic chemicals into the earth with each
drilling. The waste water, stored in open pits on site, contains the
deadly chemicals as well as underground radiation.
The 2005 Energy Bill exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe
Drinking Water, Clean Air, and Clean Water acts.
Gas companies have been drilling and polluting across the country. Now
they’re in New York—and they have leased land near and in the New York
City watershed to drill for natural gas using hydraulic fracturing.
If the drilling moves forward, New York City will have to build a
filtration plant at a cost of at least $10 billion. However, it is
unknown if the chemicals involved in drilling can be filtered out—
especially since by law these chemicals may be kept secret.
How can you help? Here are two ways.
1. Please sign this petition to protect New York City’s water.
http://citizenspeak.org/node/1436
2. US Congressman Maurice Hinchey, from New York, has co-sponsored the
bill HR 7231, reinserting the regulation of Safe Drinking Water for
hydraulic fracturing.
It’s not enough, but it’s a start. Please email your Congressperson
and ask her or him to support HR7231.
Here’s what I wrote my Congressman: Please support HR 7231 and help
protect our drinking water from unregulated gas drilling practices. In
addition to repealing the exemption of the Safe Drinking Water Act
from hydraulic fracturing, please support repealing the exemption of
the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. It is very dangerous for this
practice to be exempt from environmental regulations. Thank you.
For a quick link to your Congressperson, use this link:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
To learn more about hydraulic fracturing, read this Scientific
American article:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=drill-for-natural-gas-pollute-water
"What's In That Fracking Fluid?": http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/08-12-04/fracking.pdf
posted by Sharon Mesmer at 4:17 PM
2 Comments:
Sharon,
It was great to meet you last night at the reading. I just signed this, serious!
See you and Gary Sullivan next Wednesday, as planned!
A strange addendum to this "fracking" business: The River Reporter is based in Narrowsburg, New York, a small town upstate where I lived for 8 years (long ones, in fact). I got a weird shock opening the PDF and seeing that Masthead!
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