| We Can't Let Fracking Poison More Communities
Donate Today and I’ll Triple Your Impact! Dear Indiana,
Oil and gas companies are poisoning more and more communities in their mad rush to "drill baby drill." After watching my family in Texas face this reality, I know for certain that I don't want to see fracking expanded in backyards, schoolyards or in our national forests.
That’s why I am offering to triple your gift to Food & Water Watch to protect more families from fracking.
My nephew's son was constantly getting sick – from chest colds to ear infections – and doctors couldn’t pinpoint the cause. My nephew began to wonder if the rumors of oil and gas pollution in their town were true. What would you do?
Because of his son's health, he made the excruciatingly difficult decision to uproot his family from their small town and move across the state line to a frack-free part of New Mexico. My family was able to get away, but the fact of the matter is that not all families have the means to leave, and no family should have to make that decision. Will you help more communities across the country fight fracking by donating today?
Since moving away, the illnesses that plagued my nephew’s son have disappeared and he’s a happy, healthy second grader. My nephew hasn’t been able to find work in New Mexico, so he still operates his business in Texas during the week and drives four hours each way to be with his family in New Mexico on the weekends.
I can't prove that the oil and gas industry was to blame, but I know my nephew's son got healthy when he left the town and I've heard too many similar stories to discount them. As long as the oil and gas industry is allowed to expand fracking and make its own rules, more families will wonder if their water is safe to drink, if the air at the playground is safe to breathe and if they need to make a tough decision to sell their house at a lower price just to get out.
If Big Oil and Gas have their way, there will be fracking wells in backyards, playgrounds and national forests across the country.
We know that fracking companies cut corners to put profits before people, so it’s up to us to stop them. And I believe that Food & Water Watch’s approach is truly one of the best. That's why I've decided to put my full-fledged support behind them. Donate today and I'll triple the impact of your gift.
Food & Water Watch gives people the information they need to see through the smoke screens that big oil and gas companies put up, they have staff across the country in 16 states helping communities stop fracking locally, they advocate on behalf of people who don’t want to see fracking expanded and they hold our elected officials accountable for their actions — from small towns all the way to the White House.
Food & Water Watch has helped win victories against fracking that nobody thought were possible, like keeping fracking out of New York to date, passing more than 400 measures to protect communities from fracking, stopping Congress from fast tracking approval of a slew of new facilities to export fracked gas abroad and working to introducing a bill to ban fracking on public lands and in national forests.
I hope my offer will inspire you to give to help more communities fight fracking before it affects more families like mine. No family should have to wonder if fracking is making their child sick.
If you donate before Friday, December 19, I will match your gift to triple the impact you can have to protect more families from fracking. That means if you donate $50, I will make that gift $150!
I hope you will join with me today.
Thank you,
Ann from Virginia
On behalf of Food & Water Watch  | 
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