Why there should be a Moratorium Against Natural Gas Fracking
Here’s a great post from Herb over at http://frackmountain.wordpress.com/
There will be thousands of gas wells drilled over the next two decades using slick water horizontal hydrofracking – turning Central New York into an Industrial “Sacrifice Zone.”
Gas Drilling Will Bring You:
- Lower Property Values
- Higher Taxes
- Polluted and Unusable Water Sources
- Toxic Waste (heavy metals, carcinogens, brine and radioactive materials)
- Open Waste Pits
- Undisclosed Chemicals
- Endocrine Disruptors
- Carcinogens Left Underground
- Air Pollution
- Depleted Water Habitat
- Noise Pollution
- “Involuntary Inclusion” to undermine your land
- Eminent Domain above ground for pipelines
- Loss of Farmland
- Loss of Tourism
- Disrupted Wildlife Habitat
- Higher Crime Rate
- Increased Drug Use
- Choking Truck Traffic
- Broken Roads
- Increased Accidents
- Lower Quality of Life (why do you love this place?)
- Earth Shaking
- Fractured Bedrock Below (where 10 to 30 tons of chemicals per well, liberated radioactivity, brine, and heavy metals are left underground to slowly migrate toward your family’s water supply)
Educate yourself and take action to stop this now! The first horizontal well could be drilled in May, 2011 if we don’t extend the moratorium. The EPA study won’t even be done until 2012.
Don’t be fooled by the propaganda you see on television and billboards. They are paid for by the industry and their flunkies.
1.5% percent of the county households will benefit, 98.5% will suffer.
NOTE – Add on top of this: mismanagement, acts of nature, maximization of profit, and out of state corporations. Then mix in weakened laws and a depleted DEC . And put it all in the context of rapid expansion. Isn’t this a case for MORATORIUM!?
