Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New Yorkers Show the Faces of the Anti-Fracking Movement in Albany

New York State currently has a six-month moratorium on fracking in place and there is a call to ban the water and toxin intensive, environmentally dangerous hydraulic fracturing technique altogether. Certainly we would all agree that uses millions of gallons of water and over 900 chemicals should be subject to the protections embodied by EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act, right?
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/new-yorkers-show-the-faces-of-the-anti-fracking-movement/

Food & Water Watch Action page to add your voice to the movement to protect public drinking water threatened by the fracking rush.
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/take-action/

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) information:
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/index.cfm


PA Oil and Gas Inspectors Free to Issue Violations Without Approval From Top, Enviro Chief Says
http://www.propublica.org/article/pa-oil-and-gas-inspectors-free-to-issue-violations-without-approval-from-to

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