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Ban Fracking Now

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Fracking takes a huge toll on affected communities, generates massive volumes of toxic waste, creates hazardous air pollution problems, poses long-term risks to vital drinking water resources and threatens to lock in catastrophic changes to our climate. We need to ban fracking now.

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Ban Fracking Now!

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racking akes a huge oll on afeced communiies, generaesmassive volumes o oxic wase, creaes hazardous air polluionproblems, poses long-erm risks o vial drinking waer resources andhreaens o lock in caasrophic changes o our climae. We need o banracking now.

The erm “racking” is shorhand or hydraulic racuring.Afer drilling down o a rock ormaion ha holds oil ornaural gas, and hen drilling sideways hrough his arge-ed layer o rock, operaors injec, under exreme pressure,millions o gallons o waer mixed wih sand and chemicalso racure (or “rack”) he rock.

Wihou hese racures,oil or naural gas would remain ighly held in he rock, un-able o low up he well.

In he public debae over he uure o he U.S. energy sys-em, racking has come o mean much more han jus hespeciic process o high-volume hydraulic racuring o longhorizonal wells o exrac shale gas, igh gas and igh oil.To he public, racking represens all ha he speciic processo hydraulic racuring enails: marred landscapes and rag-mened oress; roads crowded wih heavy-duy rucks car-rying waer; chemicals and oxic wase; earhquakes relaedo disposal o his wase, and a legacy o air polluion, waerpolluion, climae polluion and public healh problems.Fracking and oher unconvenional mehods o exracingoil and gas hreaen o prolong our desrucive dependenceon ossil uels. We can, insead, mee our energy needs wihclean, renewable and abundan resources.

Bu wihou aban on racking, he oil and gas indusry will coninue osand in he way.

PHOTO CC-BY-SA © PLAZAK / COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG

Fracking brings economiccosts to local communities —hidden in plain sight

While Big Oil and Big Gas enjoy huge prois, padded by bil-lions o dollars a year in axpayer-unded subsidies,

communi-ies across he counry pay he price:

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Rens are rising

wih he inlux o ransien oil and gasindusry workers, pushing ou local residens o aecedcommuniies

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Agriculural lands are being los,

eiher aken ou o producion o make room or oil and gas wells, pipelinesand oher inrasrucure,

or conaminaed — eiher di-recly or via groundwaer — in he afermah o ineviableexplosions, leaks and spills

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Tourism and agriculural brands are under hrea

asdrilling and racking operaions mar scenic landscapes,ragmen oress and leave a legacy o polluion ha es-pecially undercus organic arms, wineries and breweries

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Heavy-duy rucks hauling oxic wases are clog-ging and damaging roads

a he public’s expense, add-ing o he nonsop noise and ligh polluion rom drillingand racking rigs and leading o accidens

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Homeowners are seeing heir propery valuesdecline,

geting shorchanged on royalies and havingdiiculy selling heir homes since banks are reusing ooer morgages when drilling and racking are close by

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Workers are being poisoned, injured and evenkilled

rom accidens and harmul exposures o oxins

;and

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Crime and oher demands on social services areon he rise

in aeced communiies, wih emergencyservices and schools sreched hin.

Fracking prolongs ourdependence on dirty anddangerous energy resources

Drilling and racking amoun o a large, unconrolled publichealh experimen. The oil and gas indusry is:

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Producing massive volumes o oxic and even radio-acive wase,

he disposal o which is causing earh-quakes and risking drinking waer resources

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Causing housands o accidens, leaks and spills

each year ha hreaen rivers, sreams and shallow aqui-ers

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Pumping hazardous polluans ino he air,

a heexpense o local communiies, amilies and arms

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Turning homes ino explosive hazards

by conamina-ing waer wells wih mehane and oher harmul gases

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Consuming millions o gallons o waer or eachracked well,

and compeing wih armers or localwaer supplies

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MARCELLUS SHALE FRACKING OPERATION SITE / PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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Puting vial aquiers a risk or generaions,

becausescieniss simply do no know how drilling and rack-ing hundreds o housands o new wells in a region willulimaely change he way conaminans — no jus hecancer-causing racking chemicals bu also hydrocarbongases and even radioacive brines — mix and move deepunderground, over long periods o ime

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Changing he climae on which we all depend,

byemiting carbon dioxide rom burning naural gas andperoleum producs, leaking he poen greenhouse gasmehane rom drilling and racking operaions and relaedinrasrucure, and locking in uure emissions wih sunkcoss in inrasrucure

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Spending millions on lobbying and decepive publicrelaions campaigns,

delaying he remaking o heU.S. energy sysem around energy conservaion, energyeiciency and renewables necessary o ensure a livableplane or our children and grandchildren.

Take action

Meeing our energy needs wih clean, renewable and abun-dan resources is he only responsible pah orward. I is heonly way o deliver long-ermenergy securiy and energyindependence a he naional, sae and local levels.

I is hepah ha leads o broad-based economic prosperiy and haspares us rom he huge bu hidden coss ha come wih ourdependence on ossil uels.

Bu advocaes o racking andoher unconvenional mehods or exracing ossil uels sand inhe way, proecing heir enormous prois a all o our expense.

Join he movemen o Ban Fracking Now and help keepdiry uels saely underground!