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The FIGHT FOR MARCELLUS SHALE is a book outlining the upcoming dangers of mining or "fracking" through the extensive
shale layer, across mid to lower NY state, for fossil fuels and gas by Halliburton- this process will pass through the NY RESERVOIR and 9 million peoples drinking water will be affected.The project holds MASSIVE financial Porits for gas companies and sickness untold for NY folk as there will be 50-60 undisclosed ( including radioactive,fecal, and other wise toxic)chemicals and poisons released as the PERFORATION THROUGH the reservoir occurs.There is also great danger of explosion. Green technologies such as geothermic, solar panels and wind are a far more safe option.
It is unthinkable to compromise the health of millions of New Yorkers for the greed of companies ESPECIALLY since the alternatives have not been fully explored.We need accountability, truth and safe practice.The shale covers an area of 54,000 square miles, from upstate New York, across Pennsylvania into eastern Ohio and across most of West Virginia — a total area bigger than the state of Pennsylvania!This plan is due in JULY 2009 NEW YORKERS have had enough terror for one century. Please sign and forward to your legislators.For more information please visit:http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/node/290
and the Sierra Club website.
"Hydraulic Fracturing: "Fracking” as it is called within the industry involves injecting water, sand and special chemicals into the shale layer at extremely high pressure. This then separates the pores in the rock and the sand particles "hold" the cracks open so the gas can flow back to the drill bore. Some of the injected fluids remain trapped underground. A number of these fluids qualify as hazardous materials and carcinogens, and are toxic enough to contaminate groundwater resources. There are cases in the U.S. where hydraulic fracturing is the suspected source of impaired or polluted drinking water. In Alabama, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, incidents have been recorded by people who have gas wells near their homes. They have reported changes in water quality or quantity following fracturing operations. Most of these incidences involve coal-bed methane production, which is a much shallower drilling process, but it highlights how poorly the gas companies are protecting the communities they are working in." - Catskillmountainkeeper
SAVE NEW YORK PRECIOUS DRINKING WATER FROM POISONOUS FRACKING BY GAS INDUSTRY
Dear Representative
http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/node/290
• <b>Regulatory Issues:</b> After decades of deal making between government and the industry it has resulted in exemptions for the oil and gas companies from protections in the clean water act, the environmental response, compensation, and liability act (CERCLA also known as the Superfund law), the resource Conservation and recovery act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Also, the gas industry is not covered by public right to know provisions, which mean companies can withhold information about the chemicals they use in the "fracking” process.
• <b>Pollution:</b> The pollution from oil and gas exploration and production has involved known carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, and other toxic chemicals like arsenic, hydrogen sulfide, mercury and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including benzene and xylene. • <b>Fragmentation:</b> The Catskills and adjacent lands in Pennsylvania contain some of the largest contiguous forest blocks east of the Mississippi River. This area acts as an important species corridor between the Catskill Park, the Shawangunk Ridge, the Hudson Highlands and the Poconos. There are multiple species of either endangered or special concern and indicator species of healthy vibrant habitat found here. The number of roads and increased heavy truck traffic and cleared swaths for pipelines to connect the drilling pads to the millennium pipeline will dissect these important forest blocks and corridor.
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