A MISSION TO PROTECT THE UPPER DELAWARE
And Our Homes, and Community, and Region ...

We are a grassroots group in Damascus, PA - located within the Upper Delaware Basin. Recently re-named "Damascus Citizens for Sustainability" - DCS, has filed the required corporate papers, a submitted a nonprofit 501(c)(3) status is pending.

Pennsylvania is often thought of as the place where the development of the fossil fuel industry began, Oil and gas and Pennsylvania go way back.  Recently, starting in Nockamixon, PA and now here in the Upper Delaware River Basin, Pennsylvania is also in the forefront of recognizing and protesting against the hazards of gas/oil drilling before drilling has taken place. Damascus Citizens, started in Damascus township in Pennsylvania, concerns itself with the health, and welfare of the entire Delaware River Basin.  We are focused on the Upper Delaware Basin.- counties in New York and Pennsylvania are the two sides of this coin.  We are Damascus  Citizens for Sustainability because we are looking to the future of the Upper Delaware. It is our right and obligation as citizens to participate in the choices that will affect our future.  DCS’s concern is for the health and sustainability of life here for us as people, and for the entire ecosystem we and all those downstream depend on.  We have to work together to assure this treasure is safe.  

DCS is part of a nationwide coalition of groups of citizens speaking from their homes, who do not want their environment and lives and communities further ruined by the current irresponsible approach to energy sourcing.  Sustainability is in our name because we recognize that there are other ways of getting and using energy.  These ways are with us now and will be developed quickly if we demand them.  Speaking as DCS I would like to say that, We are not against the oil and gas industry as such, and we want our nation to be independent of foreign oil and gas, BUT at the same time we want the oil and gas industry to act in a responsible way, safe guarding the health, safety, and welfare of citizens now and for all future generations of Americans, as they pursue their exploration process. 

A wise man told me once that “The right to own property does not convey with it the privilege of harming people, communities or the environment. Law pretending to uphold property rights while empowering corporations or property-owners to destroy community, the environment on which all life depends, or the enjoyment of community and property by others, is illegitimate law.” Right now the safeguarding of our future is not what is happening and that is what we want changed.  We are so very creative. The response to this need for energy can be to develop renewable and sustainable energy.  This can happen SO quickly now that it is clear that we have to do so.  Our creative vitality can respond with zero carbon, non contaminating sources and methods if we put OUR energy into that goal.