Environmental Activism Campaign Summaries

Fracking waste water: This is the end of clean drinking water! Stop this please!

Greetings:

My name is Dorothy P and I live at __ St, Groton, New York.

I write because it is absolutely essential for our own clean drinking water in the future that we stop the disposal of fracking wastes. This is far more important than energy supply. We cannot drink water contaminated with fracked gas or oil wastes. Underground waste disposal of these radioactive and toxic wastes is a tragedy waiting to happen. Once they get into the groundwater, they cannot be cleaned up.

Ban Improper Natural Gas Wastewater Disposal

Greetings:

My name is Terry C and I live at __ Ave. in Auburn, New York. I am currently an Auburn City Councilor. I write today because five years ago, before I was elected, Auburn was one of the few municipalities in New York State that accepted natural gas drilling wastewater at its publicly-owned sewage treatment plant. In the New York Times article Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers written by Ian Urbina (published Feb. 26, 2011) my hometown was cited as a site that releases “treated” natural gas drilling wastewater into the Owasco Outlet. This raised several red flags especially when set against the current New York State moratorium on horizontal drilling in the Marcellus shale. Immediately a small group of concerned citizens including myself started asking local officials if this was true. The response was defensive and wrought with contentious assurances that this was permitted by the NYS DEC and was a safe practice. We were not assured that this was the case.

Greetings Fractivists,

I have been meaning to excerpt some of your incredibly Powerful Personalized Letters Which Request That Governor Cuomo DENY All Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Approvals in New York.

Many of these heartfelt letters will bring tears to your eyes. I assure you that they really pack an advocacy wallop. "The pen is mightier than the sword."

Happy Holidays Fractivists,

I am thrilled to share stupendously great news about our powerfully effective campaign to safeguard New York from natural gas and oil extraction hazards.

Nationwide gas/oil production recently skyrocketed to the highest levels in 45 years due to shale fracking. As a result, America became the biggest gas/oil producer on the planet.

IN CONTRAST, NEW YORK LED THE NATION IN CUTTING NATURAL GAS AND OIL PRODUCTION BETWEEN 2007 and 2015 according to state and federal data.

The coming months could well decide the fossil fuel fate of New York State for decades to come. This is when we really need to bear down.

Please donate generously to support Toxics Targeting's miraculously successful campaign to safeguard New York from all types of shale fracking as well as new pipelines, gas storage facilities, compressor stations, power plants and other fossil fuel infrastructure monstrosities.

Stop further fossil fuel infrastructure

Dear Governor Cuomo:

My name is Lisa B and I live at ___ Lane Loudonville.