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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.

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Please SIGN and SHARE Our Important New: Coalition Letter Which Requests That President Obama Ban Improper Oil and Natural Gas Wastewater Disposal

December 19, 2016

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:

You probably will not remember me, but this is Walter Hang. I was your colleague at New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. circa 1985 when I was the Director of the Toxics Project and you were the Project Coordinator at City College of New York. It is an honor to congratulate you on all your success and to thank you for your historic public service.

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."

Deny all fossil fuel infrastructure

Dear Governor Cuomo:

My name is Joanne C and I live in Vestal, New York, just a few miles from the Pennsylvania border.

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.