Protect the Susquehanna River Basin
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To: rcairo@srbc.net, srichardson@srbc.net, governor@gov.state.md.us
Subject: Protect the Susquehanna River Basin
Your Personal Statement
Dear Susquehanna River Basin Executive Director Paul Schwartz and Commissioners:
President Barack Obama
Governor Martin O'Malley, Maryland
Governor Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania
Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York
I am writing to demand that you act now to protect the endangered Susquehanna River Basin. Please stop permitting water withdrawals for high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Susquehanna watershed. A Cumulative Impact Study for the Susquehanna River Basin and a Health Impact Assessment for the state of Pennsylvania, regarding the full life-cycle impacts of fracking, must be conducted. Please amend your rules to require a cumulative impact study for all life-cycle impacts from fracking in the Basin. The Delaware River Basin, state of New York, and state of Maryland have each instituted a moratorium on fracking. The SRBC should do the same.
I ask, also, that you rescind the permit granted for Aqua America subsidiary Aqua PVR, and any other partners, to withdraw billions of gallons of Susquehanna River water to sell to fracking corporations. The families living at that water withdrawal site have nowhere to go, and construction must not begin. Please protect these families from inhumane treatment, and protect the river basin from accelerated fracking, by rescinding that permit immediately. Don't take the River out of Riverdale!
I ask you to vote "NO" on any and all new water withdrawal permits at the June 7th meeting because:
Dozens of families are now living in a state of emergency without access to clean, safe drinking water in the Susquehanna and Ohio River Basins. Their water has been contaminated by drilling and fracking operations.
Three to four out of every ten smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna River right now have black splotches, according to fishermen (Daily Item, 3/272012). The river is impaired and fish are becoming ill, having reproductive difficulties, and dying. Accelerated fracking will further harm the river ecosystem.
Public health is hurt by fracking. Hundreds of animals have died (Bamberger/Oswald, 2012: Cornell) and many people in Pennsylvania, such as Stacey Haney and her family, have gotten sick from poisons released by gas drilling in all its stages. Bamberger and Oswald identified 16 migratory pathways for toxic fluids to migrate, threatening animal and human health. Yet PA isn't even keeping track!
Fracking in Pennsylvania is destroying our safety. Two disastrous blowouts caused evacuations and badly contaminated drinking water (Clearfield, Bradford Counties). Two compressor stations have exploded and burned in just the last five months. Two homes have blown up due to methane migration.
Fracking threatens healthy farms and foodsheds. Farmers who know their animals have been exposed to fracking contaminants have sold those animals at auction. Farmers have complained about multiple frack chemical spills on their land, only to be told by regulators, "This industry is too big for us to control." We must protect our farms, our food, and our water.
Our future is at risk. Methane migration underground due to fracking is well-documented; it's rampant. But we have no way to track the dispersion of fracking contaminants and chemicals deep underground, putting future generations at risk. Science now shows that methane emissions from fracking accelerate climate change. We must not risk our children's future.
Please immediately halt water withdrawals for fracking. Vote NO on June 7th, the next SRBC meeting, to any new permits for water withdrawals for fracking.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123
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To: rcairo@srbc.net, srichardson@srbc.net, governor@gov.state.md.us
Subject: Protect the Susquehanna River Basin
Your Personal Statement
Dear Susquehanna River Basin Executive Director Paul Schwartz and Commissioners:
President Barack Obama
Governor Martin O'Malley, Maryland
Governor Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania
Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York
I am writing to demand that you act now to protect the endangered Susquehanna River Basin. Please stop permitting water withdrawals for high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Susquehanna watershed. A Cumulative Impact Study for the Susquehanna River Basin and a Health Impact Assessment for the state of Pennsylvania, regarding the full life-cycle impacts of fracking, must be conducted. Please amend your rules to require a cumulative impact study for all life-cycle impacts from fracking in the Basin. The Delaware River Basin, state of New York, and state of Maryland have each instituted a moratorium on fracking. The SRBC should do the same.
I ask, also, that you rescind the permit granted for Aqua America subsidiary Aqua PVR, and any other partners, to withdraw billions of gallons of Susquehanna River water to sell to fracking corporations. The families living at that water withdrawal site have nowhere to go, and construction must not begin. Please protect these families from inhumane treatment, and protect the river basin from accelerated fracking, by rescinding that permit immediately. Don't take the River out of Riverdale!
I ask you to vote "NO" on any and all new water withdrawal permits at the June 7th meeting because:
Dozens of families are now living in a state of emergency without access to clean, safe drinking water in the Susquehanna and Ohio River Basins. Their water has been contaminated by drilling and fracking operations.
Three to four out of every ten smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna River right now have black splotches, according to fishermen (Daily Item, 3/272012). The river is impaired and fish are becoming ill, having reproductive difficulties, and dying. Accelerated fracking will further harm the river ecosystem.
Public health is hurt by fracking. Hundreds of animals have died (Bamberger/Oswald, 2012: Cornell) and many people in Pennsylvania, such as Stacey Haney and her family, have gotten sick from poisons released by gas drilling in all its stages. Bamberger and Oswald identified 16 migratory pathways for toxic fluids to migrate, threatening animal and human health. Yet PA isn't even keeping track!
Fracking in Pennsylvania is destroying our safety. Two disastrous blowouts caused evacuations and badly contaminated drinking water (Clearfield, Bradford Counties). Two compressor stations have exploded and burned in just the last five months. Two homes have blown up due to methane migration.
Fracking threatens healthy farms and foodsheds. Farmers who know their animals have been exposed to fracking contaminants have sold those animals at auction. Farmers have complained about multiple frack chemical spills on their land, only to be told by regulators, "This industry is too big for us to control." We must protect our farms, our food, and our water.
Our future is at risk. Methane migration underground due to fracking is well-documented; it's rampant. But we have no way to track the dispersion of fracking contaminants and chemicals deep underground, putting future generations at risk. Science now shows that methane emissions from fracking accelerate climate change. We must not risk our children's future.
Please immediately halt water withdrawals for fracking. Vote NO on June 7th, the next SRBC meeting, to any new permits for water withdrawals for fracking.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123
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Campaign (<em>2817</em>): <em>Protect the Susquehanna River Basin</em>
Learn more about this campaign here: <em>http://www.citizenspeak.org/campaign/saynotofracking/protect-susquehanna-river-basin</em>
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