Week 8: Need more reasons for a COMPLETE frack ban?
Last days to write the DRBC!
Use these easy on-line systems to ban fracking, ban frack wastewater, ban water exports for fracking! The DRBC’s current consideration of a ban on fracking and its activities in the Delaware River Watershed would ban fracking but allow wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, treated, and discharged within the Delaware River Basin and would allow water from the Watershed to be export to fuel fracking elsewhere. As illogical as this is, unless we can make our case about why dumping frack wastewater in the water supply for up to17 million people and why depleting the vulnerable waters of the Delaware to enable fracking in our neighbor’s watershed is an abominable concept that must be rejected, DRBC may actually adopt the draft regulations allowing these grossly damaging activities. And we have just a few days left to speak up on the record, so please join us!
Welcome to Week 8 of “8 Weeks to a Ban” and “Watershed Wednesdays”! This week we examine some of the important issues we haven’t been able to already address over the last 8 weeks of comment platforms. We figure if the DRBC is not convinced yet by all the compelling information and research that has been submitted by the public and through these comment platforms, we’ll offer a few more head-turners. Our last week we look at: the inducement of infrastructure and end uses of gas that are being dreamed up to find markets for the glut of shale gas that’s being produced; the lack of enforcement, funding, and resources to actually carry out the proposed fracking activities in the Watershed; the looming threat of injection wells to get the enormous volumes of wastewater out of sight; the devastating land, forest, and stream impacts that accompany fracking and its activities; and the threat of deadly disruption to the ecologically-based flow regimes of the waterways of the Basin from fracking and its depleting water withdrawls. We must not let this ruinous proposal be approved!
Even if you commented already, you can file another comment, there is no limit to how many an individual can submit. We need to drive the message home that the only way to prevent the harms of fracking is to COMPLETELY BAN IT. The DRBC draft regulations that would allow the dumping of wastewater in the Watershed and allow the export of water from the Basin to fuel fracking elsewhere must be scrapped so that fracking and its activities are completely banned. So please weigh in by submitting a comment NOW – the comment deadline is 5pm, Friday, March 30.
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.
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!
Comment using these links:
Watershed Wednesdays and Eight Weeks to a Ban.
Please go to BOTH these links to send your comment – it’s easy!
You may also comment directly to DRBC using their portal. Use these Talking Points. You can also view the DRBC's draft regulations here.
Please share our comments with our Facebook event link.
The Delaware River Basin Commission (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 by this Friday at 5pm so we can achieve a COMPLETE ban on fracking once and for all throughout the Delaware River Watershed.
