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Even Energy Tycoon T. Boone Pickens says "Natural Gas Has Been a Disaster" Ask Your Members of Congress to Ban Fracking Now
The Hawthorne family is just one of thousands in New York fighting to Ban Fracking Now Help protect our water and our health by urging your legislators to Ban Fracking Now! May 22, 2012 Dear Indiana, I'm proud to be working with the residents of New York who are entrenched in what the New York Times is calling "a movement that has become one of the most powerful environmental and citizens campaigns in state history." The people of New York are in the fight of their lives to protect their water, their health and their communities from the dangers of fracking, but they can't do it alone. Will you join them in the fight? Because a large part of New York sits on top of a supply of natural gas, the fossil fuel industry is hell-bent on fracking in the state. Governor Cuomo could lift the current moratorium and allow fracking any day now. But New Yorkers have seen the destruction that their neighbors in Pennsylvania are facing and they've seen that regulations don't work. The only way to prevent a toxic legacy is to push nationally to Ban Fracking Now. We can't live without clean, safe water, and this is powerful motivation for the people in New York who are on the front lines of the fight against fracking. We're helping lead this fight to protect our drinking water along with a statewide coalition called New Yorkers Against Fracking, which comprises about 110 groups and organizations who are pushing to Ban Fracking Now. But even if we are successful in New York, there are many other states that are also threatened by fracking, which is why we need a federal ban. Will you join the good people of New York and urge your federal legislators to Ban Fracking Now? Every day there is more and more evidence of the dangers of fracking. And the movement is growing around the world, too. France, Germany and Bulgaria have come out against fracking. Vermont recently became the first U.S. state to ban the dirty practice. Billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has even announced that he has gotten out of natural gas stocks due to cheap prices. Essentially, there is no profit in gas fracking, and, in his words, "natural gas has been a disaster." No place is safe from fracking. We need a national ban today. Email your legislators asking them to introduce legislation for a national ban on fracking: http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10568 Thanks for taking action, Meredith Begin Education & Outreach Organizer Food & Water Watch mbegin(at)fwwatch(dot)org P.S. This is part of a series of stories from communities that we're working with around the country who are standing up and fighting back against the multi-million dollar fracking industry. If you missed last week's story about Ohio's earthquakes, you can check it out here.
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