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The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking

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Food & Water Watch's report "The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking" reviews the most recent scientific studies and renews the organization's call for the prohibition of fracking worldwide.

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The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking

n many ways, racking is he environmenal issue o our ime. I’s an issue ha ouches on every aspec o our lives — he waer we drink, he air we breahe, he healh o our communiies — and i is also impacing he global climae on which we all depend. I pis he larges corporae ineress — big oil and gas companies and he poliical leaders who suppor hem — agains people and he environmen in a long-erm sruggle or survival. I is an issue ha has capivaed he hears and minds o hundreds o housands o people across he Unied Saes and across he globe. And i is an area in which, despie he massive resources o he Frackopoly — he cabal o oil and gas ineress promoing his pracice — we as a movemen are making remendous srides as our collecive power coninues o grow. Food & Waer Wach is proud o work shoulder o shoulder wih communiies across he counry and across he world in his effor. Wih mouning evidence abou he harms o racking and he immediacy o he impending climae crisis, his repor lays ou he urgen case or a ban on racking.In 2009, we became alarmed abou he hrea ha hydraulic racuring (racking) posed o our waer resources. Communiies around he counry were already raising he alarm abou he ill effecs ha racking was having, rom increased ruck raffic o spills and even ap waer ha could be li on ire hanks o mehane leaks rom racking wells ino waer sources.Meanwhile, many naional environmenal groups were ouing naural gas as a “bridge uel” — a beter means o producing energy rom ossil uels han coal, a source ha everyone knew we had o move away rom urgenly o reduce he carbon emissions ha were heaing he plane a a dangerous rae. Communiies ha were already eeling he effecs o he echnology, or ha were ighing he coming wave o racking, el berayed ha he place hey lived could become one o he sacriicial zones — wih many environmenaliss’ blessing. Over he nex ew years, scieniic evidence would moun ha no only is racking no climae riendly, bu i has he poenial o unleash massive amouns o mehane ha will conribue o climae disaser.So we began our work on racking wih

Not So Fast, Natural Gas

, our repor ha raised serious ques-ions abou racking saey and he naural gas rush being promoed by indusry and governmen. Tha repor, released in 2010, called or a series o regulaory reorms, bu he evidence coninued o moun. The nex year, afer looking a even greaer evidence o he inheren problems wih racking, and real-izing how inadequaely he saes were regulaing he oil and gas indusry and enorcing hose regula-ions, Food & Waer Wach became he irs naional organizaion o call or a complee ban on racking, and we released he repor

The Case for a Ban on Gas Fracking

.Since he release o ha repor in 2011, more han 150 addiional sudies have been conduced on a range o issues — rom waer polluion o climae change, air polluion o earhquakes — reinorcing he case ha racking is simply oo unsae o pursue. In he ace o such sudies, and ollowing he lead o grass-roos organizaions ha have been a he oreron o his movemen, a consensus is emerging among hose working agains racking ha a ban is he only soluion. No only are ederal and sae oﬀicials no regulaing he pracice o racking, i is so dangerous and he poenial so grea ha i canno be regu-laed, even i here were he poliical will. This is why Americans Agains Fracking, a naional coaliion ha Food & Waer Wach iniiaed in 2012, has coninued o atrac suppor. The coaliion now has over 275 organizaions a he naional, sae and local levels unied in calling or a ban on racking and relaed aciviies.

Letter from Wenonah Hauter

Executive Director, Food & Water Watch

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