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Please consider signing the following petition @ Whitehouse.gov
We petition the obama administration to:
Protect communities from the negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and natural gas drilling.
Rapid development of fracking has overwhelmed communities with negative impacts: drinking water contamination, intense industrialization of farm and forest lands (with loss of habitat), polluted streams, heavy truck traffic and accidents on rural roads, even earthquakes from deep well injection of wastewater.
Hailed as an abundant bridge energy supply, shale gas drilling was exempted from provisions of major environmental laws, while we now know the supply is much less than previously thought.
We ask the Administration to protect our drinking water by restoring the protections of the Safe Drinking Water Act to natural gas drilling, to eliminate all other exemptions fracking enjoys, to prohibit drilling in national parks and highly sensitive lands and tightly restrict export of shale gas.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/protect-communities-negative-impacts-hydraulic-fracturing-fracking-and-natural-gas-drilling/FznjQPPr
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)A mere 25,000 signatures requires the administration to address the issue publicly...
We can do this!
Please share with your friends, family memebers and through social media outlets...
This Central New York Finger Lakes region resident thanks you from the bottom of his heart...
THANK YOU!
livetohike
(22,147 posts)As your sister across the border in Northern PA, thanks for posting this. Will sign and spread the word.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)I noticed those whitehouse petition links are kind of flaky sometimes.
There is usually a short link that goes to a wh.gov address.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Thank you for the heads up!
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I will be happy to sign on to this petition if I could only find it.