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Letter to Hillary from New York Environmentalists
Message from New Yorkers to Hillary Clinton: Stop Touting the Big Oil & Gas Line on Extreme, Dirty Energy
Last week, Hillary Clinton gave a lecture on a range of topics at Hamilton College in Oneida County, New York. Unfortunately, she was gravely wrong to tout the fact that the United States is seeing record-breaking oil and gas production, which is tied to the expansion of fracking. We hope that Ms. Clinton will consider the facts and reconsider her position.
Dear Ms. Clinton,
We are writing to you from upstate New York, a place you recently called “a land of treasures.” We write on behalf of New Yorkers Against Fracking, a coalition which includes more than 200 organizations, 1,000 business owners and 300 faith leaders from across this great state. We appreciate this “land of treasures” every day of our lives and we want you to know that turning our lands into an industrial wasteland from fracking has no place in our environmental or economic future.
In upstate New York this summer, hundreds of residents around Hamilton College were forced to evacuate due to extreme flooding. Even worse, two years ago, Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc on the area.
Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report showing that most of the planet’s warming in recent decades is human-caused. The report serves as a dire warning that we must drastically reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we spew into the atmosphere, or face irreversible and very damaging impacts.
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In upstate New York, residents have been on the receiving end of an onslaught of oil and gas industry propaganda for more than five years. We’ve broken through their slick ads and lies, looked to the science, and as such overwhelmingly reject fracking. Just as we’re not buying it from the oil and gas industry, we won’t buy it from you, and we urge you to do what we have done: look at the science, visit areas affected by fracking, and join us in promoting renewable energy and the better future it will bring.
That’s what would be great – if you would come to upstate New York and tout renewable energy and efficiency, which creates more jobs and protects public health and the environment.
In the meantime, we respectfully invite you to visit Dimock, Pennsylvania to see first-hand the impacts of fracking and talk to the affected residents.
Sincerely,
John Armstrong, Frack Action
Isaac Silberman-Gorn, Citizen Action of New York
Kathleen Nolan, MD, MSL, Catskill Mountainkeeper
New Yorkers Against Fracking
http://nyagainstfracking.org/message-from-new-yorkers-to-hillary-clinton-stop-touting-the-big-oil-gas-line-on-extreme-dirty-energy/
Last week, Hillary Clinton gave a lecture on a range of topics at Hamilton College in Oneida County, New York. Unfortunately, she was gravely wrong to tout the fact that the United States is seeing record-breaking oil and gas production, which is tied to the expansion of fracking. We hope that Ms. Clinton will consider the facts and reconsider her position.
Dear Ms. Clinton,
We are writing to you from upstate New York, a place you recently called “a land of treasures.” We write on behalf of New Yorkers Against Fracking, a coalition which includes more than 200 organizations, 1,000 business owners and 300 faith leaders from across this great state. We appreciate this “land of treasures” every day of our lives and we want you to know that turning our lands into an industrial wasteland from fracking has no place in our environmental or economic future.
In upstate New York this summer, hundreds of residents around Hamilton College were forced to evacuate due to extreme flooding. Even worse, two years ago, Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc on the area.
Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report showing that most of the planet’s warming in recent decades is human-caused. The report serves as a dire warning that we must drastically reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we spew into the atmosphere, or face irreversible and very damaging impacts.
{{big Snip}}
In upstate New York, residents have been on the receiving end of an onslaught of oil and gas industry propaganda for more than five years. We’ve broken through their slick ads and lies, looked to the science, and as such overwhelmingly reject fracking. Just as we’re not buying it from the oil and gas industry, we won’t buy it from you, and we urge you to do what we have done: look at the science, visit areas affected by fracking, and join us in promoting renewable energy and the better future it will bring.
That’s what would be great – if you would come to upstate New York and tout renewable energy and efficiency, which creates more jobs and protects public health and the environment.
In the meantime, we respectfully invite you to visit Dimock, Pennsylvania to see first-hand the impacts of fracking and talk to the affected residents.
Sincerely,
John Armstrong, Frack Action
Isaac Silberman-Gorn, Citizen Action of New York
Kathleen Nolan, MD, MSL, Catskill Mountainkeeper
New Yorkers Against Fracking
http://nyagainstfracking.org/message-from-new-yorkers-to-hillary-clinton-stop-touting-the-big-oil-gas-line-on-extreme-dirty-energy/
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