Tell Obama to Enact Immediate Moratorium on Fracking

EcoWatch | January 10, 2013 8:34 am | Comments

$fracking$ Sign this petition to tell the Obama administration to enact an immediate national moratorium on high-volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and independent scientific studies are completed on the impacts of fracking to the environment, climate and human health.

Signing this petition automatically sends an email calling for a moratorium on fracking to the U.S. EPA, Department of Energy and Bureau of Land Management.

This petition unites the voices of Americans who demand a moratorium on fracking until the risks to water and air quality, climate and human health can be be thoroughly evaluated, successfully mitigated or eliminated, or until it is determined that HVHF technology cannot be performed without unacceptable risk and is banned.

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Endorsing Organizations: Sustainable Otsego, Otsego 2000, Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance, Westchester for Change, NYH2O, Advocates for Morris, Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods, Plymouth Friends of Clean Water, Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition, Putnam County Coalition to Preserve Open Space, Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development, The Great Lakes Sustainability Center, Learning Sustainability Campaign, GreenWatch, Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition, GrassRoots EnErgy activist Network, Northeast Ohio Sierra Club, Grassroots Coalition for Environmental and Economic Justice, What the Frack?! Arapahoe, Ohio Network for the Chemically Injured, Middlefield Neighbors, Be the Change, Global Community Monitor, Andes Works!, Otsego Neighbors, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, R-CAUSE (Rochesterians Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction), The Earth First Initiative, Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, Commission on Peace and Justice of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, What the Frack?! Arapahoe, Frack Free Genesee, Stand your ground nc w/ed harris against fracking

If your organization is interested in endorsing this petition, email Stefanie Spear at [email protected].

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Comments

http://ShaleshockCNY katherine m. burns

I think President Obama does not understand the depth of the problems associated with hydrofracking, or the breadth of the opposition to it. It is so dangerous in so many ways – Not only will it poison fresh water just when the need for it is becoming even more vital as global warming increases, but it will actually accelerate global warming. It may burn cleaner than coal, but the whole process of obtaining and shipping it leaves a larger carbon footprint than coal does. Additionally, various parts of the process will poison our air and land, and cause horrifying health problems on a broad scale. If it were as the gas companies would have us believe, it would be great. But it’s not, and it poses terrible dangers, not just for the areas where fracking is done, but also for the planet as a whole.
- Jono Ruf
  
  I disagree and think O fully understands the implications behind fracking, which makes it that much more troublesome!
  - Jacquelyn Storm
    
    I completely agree..he’s too smart not to know exactly what’s going on. Special interests are in control.
    - Kenneth Gibson
      
      It is not a question of how smart he is, or isn’t. I think the job spreads a person very thin. In my opinion, Obama’s failure is in the selection and retention of advisors. The economic advisors he has allowed or caused to leave him and the ones he has kept (even a holdover from the Bush Administration at Treasury) indicate his failure in that area.
      
      Building the infrastructure for a renewable energy system would have been the stimulus the economy needed begining three or four years ago. Now it is important to signal to the world that the U.S. really is commited to wind and solar generation and electric powered transport by turning off the oil and gas taps and putting an end to federal support of nuclear power.
      
      Like most politicians, Obama is trained as a lawyer, not an economist. The energy “establishment” only knows the old ways. It is time for academia to start producing research that fills the voids around fracking, tar sands and spent nuclear fuel storage. The world needs a definitive explanation of how hazardous these things really are – for all our sakes.
      - Charlie Law
        
        Good Call, KG.: “spread a person thin.” I have the luxury of reading/listening to investigative journalists, Chomsky, Wolff, Hedges, Alternative Radio (AR)speakers, etc. for 2 hrs/day. O’Bama, and for that matter, nearly all congressmen and mainstream “journalists” reporters don’t have that time, craft their language, and still make deadlines. I see the weekend gabfests by say, Gregory, that are completely unable to call out misstatements, outright lies because, I think, they just don’t know where to look, what to look for, and how to use their limited time usefully. They don’t even know the right questions. BUT, well taken: these guys/gals + O’B should avail themselves of advisors that are up to date. And, to me, that’s the ugly face of the oligarchy. Our only real resource is to SOMEHOW FORCE the MSM evening “news” (80% of the low-info public’s source) to take responsibility for saving our democracy/planet. Maybe after the impeachment when 20 million are in the streets.
      - Lindsay Groves
        
        He’s a compromiser, which in this case is a bad thing.
      - dominickj
        
        The President has been appointing good people to these important positions The REPUBLICANS have been stalling them. Presidents hands are tied with so many other issues I’m sure it’s hard for to pick and choose something to champion!!! THAT’S why he needs these key people in these position.. STOP blaming everything on the President….
    - Christina (Chris) DeLaigle
      
      I believe President Obama is too smart NOT to know all about fracking and its heinous probabilities for our future, but he’s between a rock and a hard place and having to pick his battles. I hope he chooses correctly and outlaws fracking AND the Keystone XL Pipeline. This country MUST use cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels like windmills and solar panels. The oil companies just haven’t found a wedge to get into the profits of these alternatives so they can corner the market and manipulate the prices
      like they have on their products
      - June MacArthur
        
        I agree with Chris totally.
  - Julia Brown
    
    Agree. Obama’s imprimatur (approval) of fracking is unconscionable, and a betrayal of his electorate, the US populace now and future, and world ecology.
    - http://ShareThis Joy Ramsey
      
      I agree with Julia. If this was a priority of the President, he would get involved. He has turned his back on the environment at a crucial time. He is in his last 4 years, step out and be bold, LEAD. Our environment is at stake. He is failing our earth.
  - m. mcguire
    
    Dear Friends,
    
    think EARTHQUAKES! The assaulters are and will continue to assault this CRUST of earth as the deep, deeper drilling breaks through
    the fragile crust of our Mother EARTH, colliding the plates on which we stand. Demand the end of fracturing the EARTH’S CRUST!
    
    dear
    friends,
- Geoff Wright
  
  I believe you are right Katherine. If something sounds too good to be true it usually is. The process sounds so exciting and yet is so fatally flawed no matter what way it is looked at once one looks ever so slightly below the surface. I continue to be amazed how well industry propaganda works driving some to want to believe so badly that they move their minds into an altered state where the prospect of poisoning their neighbors and even their own children isn’t all that bad so long as they get the money. The shale gas drilling industry and their politicians are just plain greedy but some of their most ardent supporters are simply desperate and can’t give up on the illusion that they will one day be millionaires.
- Mary Moore
  
  I think your comments are spot on. However, I do believe the president knows exactly the damagage and environmental dangers that fracking poses, just as he knows the repercussions the inhabitants of this planet will face if the Keystone project is allowed to overrule the citizens standing against. The president is still urged to prevent that project from happening but time will tell. I think really that we are at a stage of desperation. Instead of appealing to “we the people” to individually and collectively do all it takes to help ourselves and our planet (myriads of ways), i.e., shorten our individual footprints on this globe in all the ways that people can, we were approached with the word “natural gas” that can be found in America. Of course the biggest polluter of the planet are those who try to make us believe that it is not so – the Capitalist enterprises of every corner.
  
  Fracking is also the worst poisoner of fresh water we have that is already in dire straits (really worldwide). When the plot (I believe and will always believe that Iraq was an “oil plan”) failed to give the Americans control over the ingress-egress of oil via the Control of the Iraqi government, criminal minds started to work to remedy it: America’s own dangerous and dirty oil-gas – more lethal than coal. Now, all things previously held sacred are “on the table”: public lands, imminent domains wherever one needs to enforce it (I don’t know if that has happened yet but it will), and misleading mineral rights/land owners about this whole business – appealing to their desire to get rich at the expense of possible dirty work. In a sense, now the oil companies will treat US as the US initially set out to treat Iraq. Well, we pulled out – without the rights to rule oil to the Middle East.
Mary E. Langendorfer

I live in one of the poorest counties of New York State, but we do have beautiful lakes, lovely wooded hills, clean air and aquifers of pure water. There are many in the state who would like to cash in on the “fracking” of natural gas, looking for a boom in employment and easy money for the landowners, businesses and governments. The sad fact is that after taking the gas and poisoning our air, soil and water, the gas companies pull out, leaving a wasteland. Can money ever bring back good abundant water, arable land, healthy children? How can anyone with a conscience vote to allow fracking in this or any other state?
- Marilyn
  
  I,m also from N.Y. and fighting for no fracking here. Once they rape our land ,spoil our water, everyone sick, then move on . Where is our Governments help and protection. The people we elect need to do something to help. We can’t sit back and say Oh they know what their doing,NO THEY DON’T. Their selling us out . Do more studies on Penna. and other states like Josh Fox did (Thank you Josh)
Paul Purcell

The gas industry is now putting restrictions on the information doctors get and can release.
http://www.truth-out.org/fracking-industry-colludes-pennsylvania-legislature-dangerous-new-laws-head-governors-desk/132923015

Fossil fuel subsidies are numerous and complex. The average informed citizen does not have a clue how these dirty industries get preferential treatment above clean renewable energies such as wind, solar, wave and biofuel. Included in this article is a link to a report outlining the business tactic the fossil fuel industry employs to entrench and hide their far too generous subsidies. Clean renewable energy projects do not get anywhere near the support these dirty energy projects do. We need to be supporting our clean energy efforts!

http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/there-are-over-250-different-kinds-fossil-fuel-subsidies-we-need-kill.html

A concise, reader friendly report from the International Energy Agency supporting biofuels as a source of clean renewable energy.

http://www.thebioenergysite.com/news/8610/iea-report-shows-importance-of-biofuels

International Energy Agency caught using misleading data that has favored dirty energy technologies above clean technologies like wind solar biofuels and wave.. An objective, honest look at the clean renewable energy technologies shows that they are feasible to deploy en mass today!

http://news.discovery.com/earth/coal-friendly-agency-turns-fossil-fuel-foe-111130.html

‎3 billion of the worlds population live with 200 km of the shore… Wave energy is poised to make a significant contribution to our clean renewable energy make up
http://www.ocean-energy-systems.org/
- http://win-tv.net Gérard Angé / GAP INTERNATIONAL
  
  THE HIDDEN FACTS…& FRAUD OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
  
  The USA Currently produces more petroleum than we use… Regardless what the media and our Politicians say… YES… True… In January of 2011 The Wall Street Journal declared “Our Countries Energy Independence.!” Since January 2011…. we have been producing more oil than we use! THE USA is a MAJOR EXPORTER OF OIL! So then” Why….for almost two years the Prices continue to go up…?
  
  What is going on today is that the Oil Companies continue to cover-up that important fact! They continue a narrative of Lies in broadcast media To continue to demand and push that we need even more production and more drilling to reach the Energy Independence threshold & Drill Baby Drill !!!! This was openly used in the last election by both parties was Clearly a Lie! A lies used to COVER UP the massive profits, FRAUD and exploitation of our country’s natural resources. As domestic oil were fraudulently manipulated and consumer prices continued to rise!!!
  
  The Petroleum Industry today is involved in a Scheme to “OVER INFLATE” the Price of Domestic Oil and “UNDER INFLATE” the “Quantity of Domestic Production”! Because of their scheme That STEALS Our Countries Domestic oil and then ships that oil to China and India. Why? Well This does three things… (1) Drives up the Prices on the U.S. Domestic Market because of a “Falsely Created Shortage” ~ That shortage is a direct result… of Shipping our Countries EXPORTED out of our Country. (2) That Domestic Oil Exported to China & India then has to be REPLACED by the Oil Companies more expensive IMPORTED OIL from the middle east… Using that Oil to to drive up the Cost to the Americans on the Domestic Market.
  
  This is a Ponzi Scheme!!!!
  
  Every man women & child in the United States and in North America are being raped by the Petroleum Industry. Our Countries Domestic Resources are being STOLEN and shipped over-seas (3) Then this Ponzi Scheme with the help or our corrupted elected officials continues to lie to the people… telling the U.S. Citizens we still need to be Energy Independent and, we need to “Drill baby Drill !!!! When in fact the truth is that every U.S. Citizen is being ROBBED!!! The Petroleum Industry continues to escalate the LIE by expanded production and expanding the destruction of our environment, and our damaging our health as they STEAL OUR NATURAL RESOURCES… This is Theft… this is Fraud… and this is a Crime that has corrupted our elected officials and also our election process.
  
  Today “WE”… the US Consumers… are paying with our children’s future for those Huge Corporate Profits and the rape of our Natural Resources… If that wasn’t bad enough… These same Corrupt Tax Dodging Petroleum Corporations now hide their profits over-seas to avoiding U.S. Taxes and U.S. Environmental Laws…
  
  These Oil Companies are destroying our country as they continue to suck the life blood from our economy and the dollars from the pockets of every citizen… driving our country of a financial cliff.
  
  This Scheme Privatizes “THE CITIZENS” Natural Resources ~ This is a “Ponzi Scheme” that is destroying our Oceans, our Land our Air and, Fresh Water without any concern for our future or our Ecology. The Petroleum Industries only concern IS PROFIT! ~ THEIR POLICY IS A LIE and is Designed to Deceive the American people !! By perpetrating these lies on the American Public, they are in fact… committing fraud against all of the American People. They are destroying the fabric of our Country for their own personal Corporate Profit as they escalate the destruction and the further plunder of all of our countries Natural Resources. Stealing and selling OUR DOMESTIC RESOURCES TO CHINA & INDIA . then…Leaving the our country’s citizens robbed of their Future, health and their economy devastated and our environment polluted and destroyed.
  
  The perpetrators of this Ponzi Scheme along with the politicians who accepted money and allowing the ongoing Rape Pillage & Plunder practices to continue… All need to be arrested and brought to Justice!
  
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  Gérard Angé
  President CEO,
  G.A.P. International Satellite Broadcasting Inc.,
  G.A.P. International News Service,
  WIN-TV Corporation,
  
  http://twitter.com/gerardange
  - Bev
    
    I believe we’ve been getting raped by oil companies, in a variety of ways, for a couple decades!
    The worst is fracking which permanently destroys land, uses too much water, pollutes the land and the water, and put all life in the area at risk. Why should America give up it’s natural resources for the profits of the few?!*
    Unconscionable. Intolerable. And extremely unwise in the face of already occurring drought in the west and probable global warming.
  - Shirley Roberts
    
    This is SO true. Our county is being overrun by frac sand miners. ruining our
    beautiful hills and polluting our trout streams. Don’t vacation in Wisconsin
    anymore unless you like sand. It is the most disgusting display of greed we have
    ever seen. Town and County official are being corrupted by the money and false
    promises of these oil companies. One sand company is going bankrupt and is also in
    Federal Court -prosecuted at the request of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Violated all the rules that have been obeyed by a legitimate mine in the
    next county. Will there be violence? Could be bad.
    - J. W,
      
      THIS IS SO TRUE AND WE GOT TO STOP THIS. ALL THE PEOPLE IN GOVENMENT ARE GETTING % OF ALL THIS FRACKING AND THE OIL AND GAS COMPANIES, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS NOW AND WE BEEN TAKEN ACROSS BY THE BANKERS THEY TELLING US WE ONLY CAN GET LITTLE OR NO INTEREST ON YOUR MONEY IN HE BANK. WHILE THERE GETTING 300% INTEREST FOR THERE MONEY, WERE GOING TO BE GONE ON THIS FACE OF THIS EARTH IF WE DON’T STOP THEM IN THERE TRACT, THEY BEEN LYING AND CHEATING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AL ALONG, YOU SEE THERE RUNNING A MUCK ON ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND NOW THEY WANT TO BRING MORE ALIENS INTO OUR COUNTRY, AND WE HAVE ENOUGH OF PEOPLE HERE ALREADY, THEY ARE TAKING ALL OF US FOR GRANTED AND NO ONES ARE LISTENING, WERE ALL GOING TO BE BROKE AND WERE GOING TO BE OUT IN THE STREETS WITHOUT NOTHING SOON AND THIS IS WHERE THEY WANT ALL OF US TO BE, OR DIE FROM ALL THE BAD WATER AND AIR WE BREATH, I BET THEY HAVE A UNDERGROUND BUILT FOR ALL OF THEM, WHERE WOULD BE GO IF OUR AIR IS SO COMDEME WE CAN;T BREATH ANYMORE, AND NO ELECTRIC OR HEATING FUEL TO KEEP US WARM, THEY ARE ALL RICH AND GETTING PROFITS FROM THE INSIDE THEY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT ALL OF US, DOES ANYONE AGREE WITH THIS, THEY VOTE THERE SELFS IN BY FAKING THE VOTES, AND WE NOT GOING TO WANT THE OBAMACARE BECAUSES WE WON;T BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT, AND IT THE CONGRESS AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT MUST USE ABAMACARE TOO. AND ALL THE GOVERNMENT IF NOT THEN THEY CAN’T PUT IT ON US, HOW WILL THEY LIKE TO LIVE OFF THE RULES THEY WANT ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WELL THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT, I THINK THEY SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CHNGE ANYTHING IN OUR LAWS BEFORE THEY ASK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND HAVE A LIVE VOTE ON TV, AND THEY MUST HAVE AND OPEN LAW FOR US TO VOTE SO THEY CAN’T CHANGE IT FOR THEMSELVES, WE NEED MORE CONTROL OVER OUR CONGRESS AND ANY OFFICAL OFFICE VOTING ON THE LAWS OF OUR COUNTRY, THERE LAIRS AND THERE ALL ABOUT GREED AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE LIVING LIKE THIS TODAY, WE NEED TO GET THE ONES WHO ARE IN CONGRESS AND OTHERS THAT OBAMA GAVE JOBS TOO, AND GET NANCEY POLESI OUT TOO, SHE HAS MADE A FEW THINGS DIFFICULT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TOO. AND IF THEY HAD VOTES THAT WERE NOT LEGAL FOR OBAMA TO BE OUR PRESIDENT, THEN WE MUST ENPEACH HIM AND GET BOEHNER OUT TOO, HE IS THE ONE WHO IS PUSHING THE IMIGRATION AND WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN OURVCOUNTRY NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK HE IS DOING THIS TO US, PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS IN YOUR STATE AND GET THESE PEOPLE TO STOP TRYING TO OVER POWER US AMERICAN, WE ARE NOT THE ONES WHO DOING THIS TO OUR COUNTRY, WERE TRYING TO HAVE A REAL LIFE AND A PLACE TO LIVE FREE WITHOUR ALL THESE LAWS WHICH ARE JUST MAKING US MORE POWERLESS, AND THE RICH ARE TRYING TO TAKE OVER WHAT LITTLE WE HAVE LEFT, I FEEL THEY ARE THE ONES WHO NEEDS TO BE STOP. BEFORE WE HAVE NO RIGHTS AT ALL. MAY GOD WATCH OVER US, AND DO FOR US AS THE EARTH IS FOR THE PRETECTORS TO WATCH OVER AND NOT COMDEME THE WATERS AND THE AIR WE BREATH AND THE LAND OF THE FREE. WENEED TO KEEP OUR ATER CLEAN FOR THE FISH TO BREATH AND THE WIDLIFE TO LIVE ON THIS LAND, THERE TRYING TO KILL OFF OUR WILDLIFE AND POISON ARE WATERS AND FILLING OUR OCEANS WITH TRASH AND TIRES, AND POISONS FROM CHEMIALS AND THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR THE OCEANS WATER, THEY KILL OUR FISH AND SEAFOOD, WE WON;T BE ABLE TO EAT THIS, AND IF THEY EVEN POISON OUR WATERS WE WONT LIVE, OUR EART AS WE KNOW OF IT WILL BE GONE AND BURIED AND THE HIGH RISING BUILDING AND CEMENT THIS IS ALL YOU WILL SEE AND ROADS TO NO WHERE, AND NO AIR TO BREATH, AND NO LAND TO FARM FOR FOOD, WE CAN;T LET THEM MAKE LAWS TO TAKE WHAT FOOD PEOPLE HAVE, MERCURY LEVELS IN HUMENS AN FISH EXCEED HEALTH ADVISDORY LEVELS NOW, PLEASE SAY NO TO ANYMORE FRACKING, PLEASE.,
  - [email protected]
    
    Great comment!
  - http://ShareThis Joy Ramsey
    
    Gerard: I agree 100%. Why do we risk pollution locally to produce oil to send to China? The payoff to politicians is obvious. The potential to the poor average American who thinks fracking will make him/her rich is equally appealing.
    
    This scares the hell out of me. Yet, I feel like I’m crying “the sky is falling” over and over, and others think I’m “over-the-top” in my protest.
    
    I don’t want there to be an obvious spill, health problems, or water contamination to SHOW what we are dealing with now, without much protection. The politicians have had the upper hand in getting their message out. We’ve got to do a better job.
    - Lindsay Groves
      
      I was in China last spring, and they are dying. The old people- everybody has a chronic cough, You can hardly see across the street, unless it has rained in the past half hour. I thought, oh, it’s government corruption, at the time, but I realize now that it isn’t a local problem, it’s global. Corporations are killing us, slowly in most cases. They or their representatives and beneficiaries are buying up news media, so we won’t even be reading , hearing, or watching news about this in the near future. Pennsylvania looks just as corrupt as China, and NY is headed that way. (We won’t even get started on Texas) We need some journalistic and political leadership. If China consumes our natural gas, the environment here is degraded, and they get the “cleaner” fuel, and they do have the money to pay for it. The economic power in China is unimaginable. The amount of construction, the profits that can be derived from millions of people deciding to move into the cities for jobs, the complete lack of regulation of industry, and complete disregard for public health, the ability to bribe your way into any position, all spell trouble for the rest of the world, which is slower, less innovative, less aggressive, than China. I am guessing that China has already realized what it’s air quality means for the ability of its workforce to show up and work, and that they mean to fix it, by switching to fuel that mostly leaves its pollution at the extraction site. That would be our neighbohoods. They can afford this. It’s legal.
Ernest Guindon

I think there is an even deeper evil behind fracking, which underscores the importance of people working to develop cleaner energy sources and to save their homes, their health, their lives, the integrity of a vitalized environmental life habitat for all natural living beings of Earth. The evil is the stated objective of a minority of sick-minded greed-dominated super wealthy to eliminate 90 per cent of the world’s population by 2050. How they intend to achieve that is to make our lives unliveable through wars and pestilence and control of food, etc. Kissinger put in writing in 1974 that the priority policy objective of the U.S. toward what he termed “third world nations” is depopulation. Kissinger is a dual citizen Israel-U.S. What right does an Israeli citizen have to be setting U.S. policy. I don’t want to sound sectarian, but in objective terms, if one googles “dual citizen Israel/U.S. policy positions U.S. government” or words to that effect, one finds a mind-boggling list of international war criminals, all the way into the Policy Board of the Pentagon Department of Defense. Thus the pressure to go to war against Israel’s “enemies” in the mideast, including Iraq, at U.S. expense. And the military is the planet’s worst agent of pollution, particularly through the process of war, perhaps the planet’s most lowly form of organized human activity. Of course, in the U.S. we have the massive tons of steel machines of destruction, destroying in minutes what took thousands of years for Nature to create, eating away at America, doing damage which lasts forever. The pipeline must NOT be allowed for the same reasons fracking must be stopped. Those are NOT designed for the well-being of humanity. They are NOT. Of course I realize the person who developed the fracking technique thought he was contributing to the science of gas extraction and didn’t know of the problems it would cause. The pipeline I am willing to attribute to more sinister global intentions which are to the detriment of America. A partial future solution to some of this, after laws get straightened out, is to plant thousands of square miles of hemp, which is reported to be able to recycle oxygen and CO2 twice as much as trees, its seeds provide a virtual whole food, it can be used in many well documented ways, supporting healthy lifestyles.
- Sam and Dori Orenstein
  
  It is interesting that you Anti-Semites come out of the walls when any
  situation detrimental to people and the environment is discussed. Fracking in our
  United States is a big oil threat and has nothing to do with Israel.
- [email protected]
  
  Do you think Monsonto will try to get ownership of that seed too?
K Roberts

There is another issue here that those of us who oppose fracking also must get involved with, because they are absolutely related , and banning hydrofracking and limiting the fossil fuel industry won’t happen without our getting the completely misnamed “Citizens United” amendment overturned. This is the amendment to the constitution a few years ago that allows- gives the RIGHT- to businesses and entire industries to contribute as much money as they want, to any politician’s campaign coffers. It is why the fossil fuel industry is being allowed to buy our politicians’ votes and opinions…. until that is overturned, this situation will continue. For more information, and to sign pledges and such, go the Public Citizen website.
- Terry Fillow
  
  K Roberts you are right.
laura

Hi.I’m Laura from Italy.our government has approved laws and licenses to drill without ask to the citizens.where i live there were many earthquakes last may causing deads and damages and here there are oil pumps and a project for a big gas storage underground on seismic stratum.those drills and fracking are dangerous for our safety here as in u.s.a and all over the world so ban them
- http://www.paradisegrdensandfarm.com Stephen Cleghorn
  
  Hi, Laura – I’m from the state of Pennsylvania in the United States, where fracking is running full-tilt. I’ve published an online PowerPoint calling for a halt to fracking that may be of use to you in Italy (albeit in English, of course) for educating people as to the dangers posed by this form of fossil fuel extraction. Here it is: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/StephenCleghorn-1652270-the-case-for-moratorium-50-min-clickable-v4/
Roger Judson

How much damage needs to be done before this administration gets it’s head out of the sand and seriously considers the science that says we are going to kill the human race if we don’t stop this lunacy. Big energy owns Washington and the American peolpe need to unite and stand against this unlawfull, unethical, greedy, self servine and insane practice. Enough is enough. America unite against fracking!
- Lindsay Groves
  
  He’ll be out of office by the time that happens.
http://marcellusprotest.org briget s

Remember the promise Obama made in his 2008 campaign?
“And I’ll invest $150 billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy — wind power, and solar power, and the next generation of biofuels — an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million new jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced.”
We must not allow them to keep fracking our country. It is happening where ever they drill, their toxic chemicals are entering our soil, air and water. Here in PA our governor has GIVEN AWAY our state to the gas industry. We are being fracked to death.
- http://ShareThis Joy Ramsey
  
  Bridget, I like and agree with what you have said. May I post your thoughts to my FB page? I’m asking for permission. Can I put your name or just anonymous? I’m from IL where our legislature just passed it and weak regulations bill. We wanted a Moratorium.
gayle

i agree we need to get the 1% out of controlling our government. have you watched ” the koch brothers exposed. it will shock you. also watch link tv. 375 on satelite
directv. occupy occupy occupy
- [email protected]
  
  also see Robert Greenwald and the Koch brothers.
GICU

Nici Obama ,nici mama luiObama nu poate sa distruga poporul pe care la ales, el mai mult ca oricand trebuie sa indeplineasca dorinta populatiei care la ales.
Jeff

I will assure you that fracking is a major problem. Controlled by the ultra – wealthy it is way ahead of regulations. This has everything to do with money. The so called wealthy elite who control know exactly what is going – this is about money. Research the major players – then everything will become clear. This is above the president’s level – it is global.
Gerry Seger

I have been poisoned by Methane/Natural Gas Toxicity and live in HELL every day. Anyone who supports Fracking should be FORCED to live on the contaminated land from Fracking, drink, cook and bathe with the TOXIC water, eat their food grown on the TOXIC land and eat the animals, eggs, milk, grown on the TOXIC land, then put them in a room and slowly leak Methane Gas into that room for them to breathe, THEN ask them if they think Fracking is Toxic to people, animals and the environment.
- http://ShareThis Joy Ramsey
  
  Gerry, what state do you live in? Can I post your comments to my FB page? I’m asking for permission? Good comments…..I’m from Illinois. I like real people’s comments who have experienced the dangers of fracking. Please respond asap. Thanks.
Barbara Loeffler

The whole country is being covered by pipelines to connect all the gas drilling. None of the gas drawn is for US. This is all a giant shell game. We loose. There is a major pipeline trans Canada all for EXPORT. How is any of this fracking benefiting any state where it happens. NO ONE IS GETTING CHEAP Gas. I smell an ENRON. Adgenda 21. Did any one go to that website??? Go ahead scare yourselves.
EARLCBOYD

statewide ban is a must earl
http://www.paradisegrdensandfarm.com Stephen Cleghorn

All we can do at the grassroots is to wake up every day to resist fracking in small and large ways, doing whatever is in our power to do. We cannot be so worried about the President, even though everyone who can should get to D.C. on February 17 for the climate action rally at the White House. I have goat babies to bring into this world, and so I work for their survival and their clean water and air by constantly educating my neighbors about fracking. One way I do that is with this online PowerPoint: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/StephenCleghorn-1652270-the-case-for-moratorium-50-min-clickable-v4/
Robyn Lauster

We should follow the Precautionary Principle. Why do you think hydraulic fracturing was given a pass on air and water quality? They KNEW it would be an expensive problem. The oil/gas industry is working as fast as it can before citizens can put regulation in place. Our Congress is owned by these corporations, so our hands are tied. Ruin the air and water and what do we have? Cheap gas. Not a trade any sane person would make.
Dave Kisor

Those on the Big Island of Hawai’i empathize with you, as we are opposing dirty geothermal (as opposed to clean steam) and an immanant threat of fracking. Our feral gooberment paid Ormat, an Isreali corporation to produce “clean & green” power. I suggest you read Thorstein Veblen’s “The Theory of the Leisure Class” to understand the mentality of those doing this to us, because they don’t think like us at all. Their methods are chicanery and fraud and they will lie, cheat and steal until they get what they want. You hear of the 1%, but the real levers of power are pulled by the .01%.
- http://mspasarell'shealtheducationwebsite sherrie
  
  “The theory of the leisure class”– Guessing the gist =, .. will resonate w/ my worst suspicions.
  The silver lining is the folks like you, & the others trying so hard to keep this in public view.
  My brother, who walks the walk, attended the DC anti-frack’g rally- HAVEN’T SEEN anything about it in lame stream media!!!
  
  Thanks-
eunice eckerly

I believe fracking is dangerous to our environment. It needs to be stopped!
Daniel Twomey

The underlying problem is the unholy alliance between corporations and our government, in this case gas companies and federal and state government, and their agencies. Fracking must be stopped and underlying cause must exposed. Don’t expect this unholy alliance to stop with fracking. There are others resources and rights they will exploit unless we, the people, stop them. Our democracy is at risk internally. This is greater threat that external risks.
Anita Schmitz

This “madness”(Hydrofracking) must be stopped NOW. The pursuit of $$$ will ruin our precious world. What will we drink and breathe when it’s all gone? What are we leaving our children and our children’s children? Devastation??
Luzmaria Rasmussen

Its impossible to think of Money & nature.. only the cost of nature is humanly Beautiful to our eyes ..Creator hold us responsible to care for our mother Earth Because she takes care of us //
E Hudetz

We live in a “corporatocracy,” not a democratic republic, or democracy. It’s that simple. Since “they” own the media & the government all we really have is numbers…we are the 98%. Of course so many right wing people buy into what they are told by the media (and too often their preachers) our 98% isn’t quite 98% anymore. Scary!

We need to support the people who are fighting for the fracking bans in their cities, county’s and states, we need to force our government to embrace “home rule”. Only as a united front will the masses lead so that the leaders will follow. Let’s hope that saying proves to “hold water!”
Angela Summers

Greed is not, never was, and never will be Good!!!
Susan

I have been shocked by the support given to the fracking interests in Illinois by two big environmental organizations…The Sierra Club and The Natioal Resources Defense Council. Both were “at the table” we are told, when HB 2615, the so- called fracking regulation bill was written. In reality, it is a roadmap for the energy companies to open up Illinois for fracking…taking away local zoning control, for example, from county boards and allowing “forced pooling” of adjacent landowners who do not want to permit fracking on their property once 51% of land in an area is under fracking contract. Anyone who knows how much Illinois farmland is in the hands of industry, absentee landowners, and trusts recognizes that contracting 51% of acreage ( not 51% of actual people owners) would be relatively easy to control.
With ” big enviro” apparently more interested in having a seat at the table of power than protecting the water, air, land, and people, it is going to take heroic efforts by local, grassroots organizations to stop this environmental disaster.
- Anne Caruso
  
  The Sierra Club in Illinois did not follow the usual measures used by the SC to endorse bills, etc. They didn’t research enough and were duped. They made a big mistake. They know this and probably regret it deeply.
EARLCBOYD

FRACKING IN NEW YORK STATE WOULD BE A ENVIROMENTAL DISASTER OPOSED BY THOUSANDSAND FAVORED BY THE FEW GREEDY LANDOWNERS AND BIG OIL. IT MUST BE STOPED OR THERE WILL BE A CIVIL UPRISING THAT COULD GETVIOLENT. EARL
http://wrymind.com Ray Lovelace

Fracking is nothing more or less than environmental terrorism for profit.
Danville Sweeton

We must urge President Obama to put a moratorium on fracking. When our state universities say they want to allow fracking on public lands so they can do research on the fracking process, what they really mean is they want the money from the oil and gas produced by this destructive process. Anyone can see the mass destruction that has happened to states where fracking is rampant.Contaminated water, air and soil.
When every drop of oil and molecule of gas is depleted from the shale, what do we have then: a lifeless rock!
STOP THIS CARNAGE NOW!
Karen

May all who are involved in the endeavor of genocide live very long lives.
I ask that you to be tried for Crimes Against Humanity now…you do not have the right to take one life! You were not ‘hired/elected’ to take one life. This shall end!
Frans

Fracking will eventually destroy all life on earth – because it destroys water – and water is LIFE
David

Isn’t it a stupid idea to dredge up highly toxic crap from its place deep in the earth, where it belongs and should stay, and spread it around in our environment? Especially when there are so many clean alternatives. Further, it is a travesty that all government oversight panels are stacked with industry shills, guaranteeing that a factual, impartial decision will not be forthcoming. It is difficult to comprehend why these industry apologists do not think of their own progeny, if not themselves, who will have to live in the pollution they have and continue to produce through their advocacy. If money is the motivation, we can’t buy back a clean environment with any amount of it, and our progeny will curse us for our greed and stupidity, and our lack of concern for future generations.
Norman Amrich

How much proof do we need before we realize beyond a shadow of a doubt that “We, the People” are just minions to do whatever work so the rich, powerful, and influential can have more as we have less and even die off?? Colorado isn’t the only place where this is perfectly evident; it’s all over.
Jayne Benedict

We have got to get the big media to start talking and investigating all this.. people all over the states are dealing with this. there are a lot of people that are unaware of the severity.. if it isn’t in their back yard yet, it will be soon.. every living thing is in peril..Us, our children, the water, the land, the animals.. everything.. the hills will be gone, the water will be gone, the animals gone, and eventually, we will be gone.. please, write to the media and push them to start reporting all this.. CNN< MBCCBS> They need to start talking so everyone finds out what is going on all over the U.S.
- http://ShareThis Joy Ramsey
  
  Jayne, I agree we need to get the word out. Our right-leaning county newspaper definitely favored the view of the frackers and their bought politicians. So many people in my area of Williamson Cty., Illinois, don’t know what fracking is. If it isn’t happening on their land, their attitude is why should I think about it. Well, it is their water too.
  
  Education is vital right now. We can’t depend on Pres. Obama or local politicians. They have sold us out.
Catherine

Some of the chemicals that are used in fracking, are the same as the ones found at Love Canal. Enough said. For a full list of chemicals used in fracking visit the Congressional report: http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Hydraulic-Fracturing-Chemicals-2011-4-18.pdf
Juanita Sneeuwjagt

I am in full agreement with the above responses. We, here in the Appalachians of Virginia are stollen from, gutted and rapped. Our natural gas has been taken and sanctioned by the VA legislators. Our county leaders, even the judges are on the payrole of gas industry.
Myself and a handful of committed citizens have brought a federal class action law suit against two large gas companies, the VA Governor, and the VA Attorney General, for assisting in “taking” what belongs to the surface owners.
I have attended the monthly VA Gas and Oil Board meetings for six years, put into place by said VA Governor and Attorney General and in my lifetime have never witnessed such blatant disregard for humans, animals, air, land and fresh water.
We’re stewards if what mother nature has provided and must guard and protect it. Our very lives depend on it.
Carole Wilson

What is the oil and gas companies giving back to america? I’m not talking about lobbying $—i’m talking real permanent jobs’lower gas prices so we have more to spend on other things we need, help with taxes, ans with the deficit. This is not their land apart from america and certainly not the public lands. we’ve already seen the water problems, the dead fish and animals, and heard of people getting sick. it is unconscionable we let them in unregulated all the while not disclosing the chemicals they use…. and storing all this toxic waste???? water ha bored through rock thruout the millenniums…..and now people are seeing the views obliterated by sand mining….WHAT A CROCK!!! Seismic activity where there has never been any???? Why are we allowing this? how much of their profits is going toward replacing fossil fuels with renewables??/ Or are they still obstructing that with their lobbying????? I am sickenened by the greed and lack of respect and loyalty to America.
Christina Countryman

We can observe that this threat of fossil fuel poisoning can be addressed on 5 levels.
1)Fossil product extraction companies are multinational in ownership and bear no loyalty to the citizens of any nation.
2)In the United States, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 provided oil and gas companies exemptions from environmental laws designed to protect the public health. It ended federal oversight and legal framework, dropping the responsibility onto unprepared state agencies. I assert as a lay citizen that a crime was committed in the formation of that law and it is in need of REPEAL. In addition the Federal River Basin Commissions blindly approve of tremendous amounts of water withdrawals no matter what the public has to say at the hearings. Likewise FERC permits pipelines with no regard for the results of their public hearings.
3) State environmental laws and regulations are antiquated and inadequate to protect the public from harms that arise from the onslaught of Hydro-fracking and associated industrial development including feeder pipelines and waste disposal. Furthermore these agencies are not actually charged with the protection of the public but to merely mitigate environmental harms. Public Health Agencies have been slow to recognize their role in this affair. The top down formation of policy within state Health Departments makes change slow and corruption rampant.
4) Local county town and village governments can be responsive to citizen concerns and many are passing shale mining bans, strict zoning limits and moratoriums. These are essential but are unlikely to stand without applying pressure on every level.
5) We all have our inner struggle. We each choose how much we are willing to tolerate, when we realize it is imperative to act, and to find the right action which is in integrity with the culture of peace life and health so many of us long for…Aho
JEN

THIS SHOULD BE STOP,BECAUSE THEY CUT DOWN MORE TREES THEN THEY SHOULD AND THEY ARE DAMAGEING OUR WATER WITH POISIONING IT, AND THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR US, WE NEED WATER TO DRINK EVERY DAY, AND THE ENVIRORMENT, ITS TAKING IT TOLL ON OUR LAND, THERE PUTTING BLACE TOPPING OUR GROUND, AND THERE TEARING UP MORE LAND MAKING ROAD WHERE THERE GONG TO DIG, AND THIS VERY HARD ON OUR ENVIROMENT, SO WE GOT TO STOP THIS, I NEW THIS WASN;T GOING TO WORK, BECAUSE ITS HURTING MORE THEN WHAT ITS WORSE, WE NEED SOMETHING THATS BETTER ON OUR HEALTH, AND HYDRO -FRANKING IS VERY BACK FOR OUR LAND AND THINGS WILL NOT GROW AROUND THERE ANYMORE, THIS GOES BACK TO WHERE THEY DONE THIS BEFORE AND THEY STOP THEM, BECAUSE OF ALL THE TREE’S THEY CUT DOWN AND PLUS ALL THE WATER THEY USED WITH THE HYDRO FRACKING,THEY TAKE THE LAND AND IT DESTOYS EVERYTHING, AND WE NEED OUR TREES SO WE CAN BREATH, AND THE LAND THEY DESTOY WE CAN ‘T REPLANT IT ANY MORE, BECAUSE THEY WASH ALL THE GROUND AWAY, AND IT LOOKS LIKE A BARRON LAND, WE NEED TO GET BETTER ENERGY’S AND WORK TOWARD A SAFE ENVIRONMENT, AND SOMETHING THAT WILL GIVE BACK TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE CAN ALL SUE THESE COMPANIES THAT HAVE NO ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM SET FORTH TO PROTECT OUR WATERS FROM BEING POISON, AND FROM OUR TREE’S FROM BEING CUT DOWN AND THIS ALSO IS A HEALTH PROBLEM TO OUR ENVRONMENT. SO WE NEED A PETITION START AND GET THIS DONE NOW, THERE IS MORE I CAN SAY BUT I FEEL THERE IS ALOT BEING SAID ALREADY. I AGREE WITH ALOT OF THESE OTHERS WHO WANT BETTER WAYS TO GET BETTER SOURCE OF ENERGY IN THIS COUNTRY, WE MUST CLEAN OUT THE OCEANS WHERE SOMEONE PUT TIRES IN THERE WE GOT TO THINK HOW WE CAN USE THIS TO HELP MAKE ENERGY AND THERE IS PLASTIC BOTTLES MILLIONS OF ALL OF THESE THINGS, IN EVERY OCEAN YOU KNOW, THIS CAN;T BE GOOD FOR ANY OF OUR MAMMALS OR FISH OR ALL THE FISH LIFE IN OUR OCEANS, AND IT SURE CAN;T BE GOOD FOR PEOPLE WHO SWIM IN THE OCEANS AND ALL THIS TOXIC WASTE IS BEING PUT IN OUR OCEANS, I READ IT ON ONE OF THE INTERENT PAGES I HAVE SENT TO ME, AND DIVERS FOUND ALL OF THIS STUFF AND TOOK PICTURES OF THIS, I WAS VERY HURT WHEN I SEEM PEOPLE DONE THIS TO OUR OCEANS, WHEN THEY KNOW PEOPLE GO TERE IN THE SUMMERS FOR VACATIONS AND SWIM AND PLAY IN THEM, WE GOT TO FIGURE OUT WHO DONE THIS AND WHY, AND FINE WAYS TO GET THAT OUT OF THERE TOO, THERE IS EVEN TOXIC WASTE THAT WAS BEING PUT IN OUR OCEANS TOO, THIS IS ALSO BAD FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT, I READ THIS ABOUT A MONTH AGO, WE THE CITIZENS NEED TO FINE WAYS, SO WERE NOT MORE VICDOMS TO THIS HARMFUL ENVIRONMENT,
http://wrymind.com Ray Lovelace

I see lots of capital letters, but the one I don’t see is TERRORISM. Fouling the water supply upon which we all rely is TERRORISM. All the prisoners stuck in Guantanamo have done less damage to this country for their own politico-religious reasons than fracking, mountain top removal, leaking pipelines, etc., etc. have done simply for profit. Not only do we give them carte blanche to continue, we actually give them our tax money as well. Our country has already sold out to these TERRORISTS, and we, the victims, have to decide what to do next.
Rob Brinkman

I agree that fracking should be stopped but people need to read the US Constituion, the President does not enact anything, enactment of laws is up to Congress. The President can issue executive orders but the scope of such orders are limited. I believe that fracking is permitted by the states and is not subject to federal control unless on federal lands.
DENNIS R. NELSON, Environmental Rersearcher

I am one of the original, modern environmental (“safer and cleaner energy”) activists ever since around the first “EARTH DAY” (Wednesday, April 22, 1970), more than 43 years ago–and still going strong! I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Environmental Studies (Major)/Anthropology (Minor) from Dana College, Blair, Nebraska. Today [Sunday, July 7, 2013] is the end of our big “INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY WEEKEND!” My view is that stopping the destructive process of “‘fracking’ (hydraulic fracturing/horizontal drilling),” besides making a speedy (yet smooth) transition to “fossil-fuel-free, non-nuclear energy technologies,” is one of the best examples of the “NEW PATRIOTISM” (where “‘green’ is the new ‘red, white, and blue'”)! WE NEED AN IMMEDIATE (AND PERMANENT) NATIONAL BAN ON ALL OIL AND GAS ‘FRACKING’ BECAUSE OF THE DOCUMENTED ENVIROMENTAL, HEALTH, AND ECONOMIC DAMAGES RESULTING FROM IT!! Along with the full practical use of the best energy efficiency improvements which are already available, we need the widespread implementation of well-designed dispersed and distributed renewable energy technologies.
A S

This author examined the oil sector in Nigeria, which gives an idea of the industries
domestic goals. Available on ResearchGate.net Since, pictures say much more than words,
to see what these companies do in places where they remain unchecked try the Google Images
pages of the Nigeria Delta region in Africa listed after the abstract.

Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria: The Paradox of the black Gold

Joseph Effiong
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 01/2010; 18:323-349.
DOI:10.1108/S0196-1152(2010)0000018013

ABSTRACT Purpose – This chapter examines the socio-economic and political
challenges facing Nigeria’s oil-producing sector. The Niger Delta’s main
environmental and social problems arise from oil spills, gas flaring and
degradation of the land.
Design/methodology/approach – This analysis is based on a review of
government documents as well as materials produced by international
development agencies.
Findings – In spite of the large profits made by oil companies operating in
the Niger Delta, the people of the region live in squalor without basic
amenities. This has resulted in an upsurge of violent activities orchestrated
by community-based organizations wishing to draw international attention
to the plight of the people in the area. In recent years, both national
and international nongovernmental organizations have launched campaigns
to address the issues, but little have been achieved because the oil
companies are reluctant to be responsible corporate neighbors and the
Nigerian government seem unwilling to devise solutions to address the
problem.”

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=998&bih=515&oq=Nigeria+&gs_l=img.3..0l10.75751.86397.0.87026.8.7.0.0.0.0.134.673.3j4.7.0….0…1ac.1.21.img.tJOaM508g5E&q=Nigeria#hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Nigeria+delta+area+where+oil+companies+have+been&oq=Nigeria+delta+area+where+oil+companies+have+been&gs_l=img.12…13317.17684.0.20082.7.7.0.0.0.0.122.764.2j5.7.0….0…1c.1.21.img.vSH-DlPY0z0&fp=1&biw=1055&bih=515&cad=b&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&imgdii=_
jon miller

my mother worked for marcelus shale up till last week,she has nausia and vomiting,lesions on her face,she was a security guard for them,right around the water containments,she is currently seeking a attorney and medical treatment

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