SayNoToFracking

Organization information

Organization

Protecting Our Waters

Website address

http://www.protectingourwaters.com

Description

Protecting Our Waters is a Philadelphia-based grassroots alliance committed to protecting the Delaware River Basin, the state of Pennsylvania, and our region from unconventional gas drilling and other threats to our drinking water, environment, and public health.

Unconventional gas drilling negatively impacts water, air, habitat and human communities, and current state and federal regulations are wholly inadequate to prevent environmental destruction by this heavily polluting industry.

To protect our streams and rivers, drinking water, air quality, forests, habitat, and public health, we call for a MORATORIUM on shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania at least until:

* New Pennsylvania wastewater treatment requirements for shale gas drilling waste are in place & enforced;
* An Environmental Impact Statement has been completed for Pennsylvania;
* All federal exemptions for hydraulic fracturing are lifted: Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, & Clean Air Act;
* The Environmental Protection Agency study is complete;
* A fund has been created enabling landowners to perform baseline testing of private water wells

History

Member for

1 year 47 weeks