Week 3 - Ban Fracking in the Delaware River Watershed!

Welcome to Week 3 of Watershed Wednesdays and 8 Weeks to a Ban! Different topics are addressed each week so you can file a comment – every day if possible. There’s NO LIMIT on how many comments you can submit – on various aspects of the Delaware River Basin Commission's (DRBC) proposed regulations. We need to make our case to the DRBC in support of a COMPLETE fracking ban and in opposition to their draft gas regulations that would allow the toxic and radioactive wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed and allow water to be exported from the Basin for fracking elsewhere. 

That’s where you come in. Each week through to the close of public comment on March 30, you will be able to tell the DRBC why you want a complete ban on fracking and its activities in the Delaware River Watershed. These comments must be considered by the DRBC and the Commissioners - the Governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware - who will eventually vote on the frack ban. Please seize the moment with us to prevent the Delaware River watershed from being fracked! 

We’re providing these simple platforms to make commenting easier and quick. Below are 2 links - simply click on each of them and find suggested comments or you can write your own into the template we provide and then submit right there.

The DRBC issued draft natural gas regulations on Nov. 30. They proposed a ban on fracking but, illogically, also issued draft regulations that would allow the toxic wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed and allow water to be exported from the Basin for fracking elsewhere. It is critical that we make it clear that we want to BAN IT ALL – ban fracking throughout the Watershed, ban frack wastewater from being dumped here, and ban Delaware River Watershed water from being exported to fuel fracking  elsewhere.

Two great ways to do that are: Watershed Wednesdays and Eight Weeks to a Ban.
Please go to BOTH these links to send your comment – it’s easy!

You can comment as many times as you wish – and that’s what we need so we make an iron-clad case on the DRBC’s record with many voices demanding a complete ban and spelling out why.

If you want to comment directly to DRBC, here is the link. Use these Talking Points.

And please come out to the last in-person public hearing Feb. 22.

This moment has been years in the making, please take part in the written comment process so we can achieve a COMPLETE ban on fracking once and for all throughout the Delaware River Watershed.