News from the citizen groups Western New York Drilling Defense, Food & Water Watch, New Yorkers Against Fracking and more.
(A Brief Note from NAL – For those in Niagara, Ontario wondering why the movement to continue a ban on fracking in New York State is important, if this state across the border caves to petro-chemical industry pressures to use high pressure water laced with chemical agents to drill for gas from deep layers of shale here, pressure to do the same may grow in Ontario. All this around legitimate concerns that this practice may be seriously contaminating underground water aquifers, especially in rural areas where people need health underground water supplies the most.)
Global Frackdown 2014 in Buffalo, NY
The Growing Link Between Fracking & Our Health
Saturday, October 18, 2014 – Bidwell Park (off Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York – 11 A.M.
RSVP on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/events/1439902756288411
About The Global Frackdown
The first-ever Global Frackdown in September 2012 brought together 200 community actions from over 20 countries to challenge hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—a risky technique that uses millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals to break open shale rock deep underground to release previously unrecoverable deposits of oil and gas. The oil and gas industry has spent millions of dollars on slick PR campaigns and high-profile lobbying efforts to buy the ability to extract fossil fuels from our communities with as little government oversight as possible, all while destroying our water resources and our climate.
While the industry is working hard to protect its profits and drown out the worldwide demand for clean, renewable fuels, there is a tremendous movement afoot around the world to protect our global resources from fracking.
The Global Frackdown will unite concerned citizens everywhere for a day of action in October, 2014 to send a message to elected officials in our communities and across the globe that we want a future powered by clean, renewable energy, not dirty, polluting fossil fuels. The journey to a renewable energy future will not be fueled by shale gas. Climate scientists warn that continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic climate change.
As the oil and gas industry escalates its public relations offensive, it is critical that our elected officials hear the truth from their constituents. Fracking is an inherently dangerous technology and shale gas is not a bridge fuel to a low-carbon economy. It’s time to expose the oil and gas industry’s desire to profit at the expense of our communities and our environment. It’s time to hold our elected officials accountable. It’s time for another Global Frackdown.
Participants in the Global Frackdown will organize events in their communities to challenge decision makers to oppose fracking, united around a common mission statement calling for a ban on fracking and investment in a clean energy future.
Rita Yelda
Food & Water Watch
Buffalo, New York
ryelda@fwwatch.org
www.foodandwaterwatch.org
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Best wishes to our American friends. Big Canadian lobbyists for expanded fracking and beginning fracking in Ontario are the Goodman family and their corporations.
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