WE ARE NOT ALONE!
Numerous national, regional and state organizations
are helping to educate and organize
in opposition to the filthy fracking industry
and the pipelines it spawns.
Below are just a few:
UNITED STATES AGENCIES SPEAK OUT
AGAINST PENNEAST/UGI PIPELINE!
Environmental Protection Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
National Park Service
have all written to FERC objecting to the PENNEAST/UGI
DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
According to the Times News, the EPA has submitted a sixteen page letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) concerning its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the PennEast/UGI Pipeline Project in which it expresses: “significant concerns regarding the alternatives analysis, a number of important topics for which information is incomplete, and the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of the proposed action on the environment and public health, including impacts to terrestrial resources, including interior forests, aquatic resources, and rare, threatened and endangered species.” ...The EPA also recommends the final impact statement evaluate potential construction impacts relative to mining subsidence, landslides and flash flooding and potential blasting impacts to water wells, springs and wetlands.
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
STATEIMPACT
PROVIDES PIPELINE INFORMATION
An excellent source of information about the fracking industry, and its pipelines is the NPR program and website STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA. Searching the site will lead you to numerous informative articles specific to the PennEast pipeline project and the fight against it.
According to their website: StateImpact Pennsylvania is a collaboration between WITF and WHYY. Reporters Marie Cusick and Susan Phillips cover the fiscal and environmental impact of Pennsylvania’s booming energy economy, with a focus on Marcellus Shale drilling. Read their reports on this site, and hear them on public radio stations across Pennsylvania. This collaborative project is funded, in part, through grants from the Heinz Endowments and William Penn Foundation.
Here is a link to their website: StateImpact
DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK
Established in 1988 upon the appointment of the Delaware Riverkeeper, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization. DRN's professional staff and volunteers work throughout the entire Delaware River Watershed. They also work throughout the four states that comprise the Watershed -- including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York -- and at the federal level on the issues, actions, regulations, legislation, policies, programs and decisions that impact the health of our Delaware River Watershed waterways and our ability to protect and restore them for the benefit of all.
Here is a link to their website: Delaware Riverkeeper
Maya van Rossum, The Delaware Riverkeeper
at the Towamensing Fire Dept. June 2, 2016
HALT PENNEAST
HOMEOWNERS AGAINST LAND TAKING
HALT PennEast—a fast-growing nonprofit organization comprised of more than 300 homeowners in New Jersey’s Hunterdon and Mercer counties whose homes, farms, and livelihoods are directly threatened by PennEast’s proposed pipeline route. HALT PennEast is expanding into Pennsylvania to include many of the more than 800 homeowners directly impacted in Luzerne, Northampton, Carbon, and Bucks counties.
www.facebook.com/HALTPennEast/
CLEAN WATER ACTION
Since its founding during the campaign to pass the landmark Clean Water Act in 1972, Clean Water Action has worked to win strong health and environmental protections by bringing issue expertise, solution-oriented thinking and people power to the table. Their mission is to protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to elect environmental candidates and to solve environmental and community problems.
David Pringle, Clean Water Action
at the Towamensing Fire Dept. June 2, 2016
BERKS GAS TRUTH
Berks Gas Truth is a grassroots community organization of over 600 concerned citizens who are fighting to stop unconventional natural gas drilling. We are dedicated to raising public awareness of the issues surrounding fracking and taking action to protect our environment, communities, human health and safety from its consequences.
Karen Feridun, Berks Gas Truth
at the Towamensing Fire Dept. June 2, 2016
THE COST OF THE PIPELINE
The Cost of The Pipeline is a well written and researched blog with the stated purpose to highlight the stories of many people who are opposing the PennEast pipeline, and to show the human cost this project is going to have on people in the region. The author has been scouring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s web site dedicated to comments on this project and highlighting the comments found to be most memorable, particularly ones that tell what this pipeline is going to do to people’s families, their properties, their lives, and in many cases their legacies. The blog is full of information that might help others gauge how this pipeline is going to impact them.
www.thecostofthepipeline.com
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