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Did you know The Delaware River Watershed provides drinking water to over 17 million people and supports a world-class trout fishery and bald eagles?
Gas Drilling is not a benign activity. Besides temporary disruptions there are many possible irreversible damages to the water, quality and quantity, the land, wildlife, quality of life, property values. We must take the responsibility to decide what we want our community and our environment to be like in five years. That is the length of time it took Fort Worth, Texas, -sitting on the same geologic strata as here and dealing with the same gas companies as are here - to be transformed from one of the most livable cities in the country into a beleaguered industrial zone.
The reason the companies want to lease land is that the lease gives them the right to pollute and they then leave. They leave the pollution behind. There is much documentation of water and surface pollution and other harms done by the drilling and exploration activities.
We can and must assert our rights of self governance to take the power of decision for ourselves. The State of Pennsylvania in Article 1, Section 27 of the State Constitution says that The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.
Below, please see links to important facts:
WATER TESTING - LIST OF SERVICE PROVIDERS:
DCS_Water-testing.pdf
TOXIC CHEMICALS RELEASED DURING OIL & GAS OPERATIONS:
Toxic_Chemicals.pdf
23-MINUTE RADIO INTERVIEW:
What are the health hazards of gas drilling? Dr. Theo Colborn, author of Our Stolen Future discusses the health impacts to humans, wildlife and domestic animals in areas of gas drilling:
http://www.prx.org/pieces/20015
The 2005 Energy Act provided the oil and gas industry with numerous exemptions from provisions of federal laws intended to protect human health and the environment. Below is a comprehensive NRDC Report:
http://www.nrdc.org/land/use/down/contents.asp
Delaware River Basin Map:
http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/maps/drb_map2.htm
Paradise Lost: They don't own there mineral rights. We do!
"Their acreage in Azle was “stress-free” until the drilling started."
Catskill Confidential:
"Natural gas drilling spurs environmental concern."
Associated Press Writer:
"Air pollution in Wyo. community rivals that of big cities".
NY TIMES, OP-ED:
"Recovering From Wyoming’s Energy Bender"
This is a website put up by a community group in Fort Worth,Texas
who are speaking the truth about the gas drilling going on there:
http://www.fwcando.org
A VIDEO - about the True Cost of Gas Drilling:
http://www.fwcando.org/video
Oil & Gas Accountability Project:
http://www.ogapold.org/
Facts and data about gas drilling:
http://www.ourpubliclands.org/public-lands-faq/oilandgas101
A River Reporter Editorial:
http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/08-01-31/editorial.shtml
Free book about gas drilling, “OIL & GAS AT YOUR DOOR”:
http://www.earthworksaction.org/LOguidechapters.cfm
Mining, Drilling Issues:
http://www.earthworksaction.org/mining_issues.cfm
About the Allegheny national forest and what has been happening there:
http://www.alleghenydefense.org/hchronicles/?p=32
PICTURING LANDSCAPE CHANGE:
To see what it would look like around here, look at the link below and see the picture of the Jonah gas field - each well pad - the dots - are 4 to 5 acres.
The Truth from Above,
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One-Page FLYER (PDF) for your distribution.
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The threat from gas and oil field waste injection wells.
Published in The Texas Observer May 2006:
 "What Lies Beneath"
Gas drilling issues in Nockamixon, PA:
http://nockamixon.us/Issues/gas/gasandoil.htm
Endocrine Disruption Exchange what happens to the human body when exposed to toxins from gas drilling and other mining:
http://EndocrineDisruption.com
For More Information - Fact Sheets:
Contaminants associated with the various stages of gas development:
• Oil and Gas Pollution
Air pollution from gas facilities:
• Think Again
Contamination and regulation issues:
• Pits
A brief look at the major issues:
• Fracking
http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/node/290
The effects of drilling on the Catskill environment have the potential to be devastating. Carcinogens that accompany deep drilling also have the ability to penetrate our water supply--- a water supply that provides drinking water to NYC through aqueducts connected to the Catskill Watersheds. Perhaps the most devastating effects of drilling will be the endangerment of the natural beauty of this region, and the carbon emissions that come with the further use of fossil fuels:
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