Week 4 - USEPA report concludes fracking pollutes! Write DRBC NOW for a COMPLETE frack ban!

Use these easy on-line systems to ban fracking, ban frack wastewater, ban water exports for fracking!

Welcome to Week 4 of Watershed Wednesdays and 8 Weeks to a Ban! This week we examine what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final report on Hydraulic Fracturing (EPA 2016) revealed about the environmental impacts that are occurring due to fracking.

Even if you commented already, you can file another comment, there is no limit to how many an individual can submit. The EPA Report topic is important because some commenters at the DRBC Hearings are misrepresenting what the EPA’s final report actually says. We want to make certain that the DRBC and the Governors are not misled by inaccurate interpretations of this important federal examination of fracking nationwide.

Just click on the comment platforms and find suggested comments on this topic that you can quickly submit and, if you wish, there is also supplemental information that provides more in-depth background to help you write your own into the template we provide and then submit right there.

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 to fuel fracking elsewhere. 

Your 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!

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. You can view the DRBC's draft regulations here.

Please join the last opportunity to verbally testify to the DRBC on their telephone hearing March 6.

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. 

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.