Comments on: Toxic Effects of Drilling & Fracking will Grow for Decades Even if U.S. Operations were Halted Today! https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/06/19/toxic-effects-of-drilling-fracking-will-grow-for-decades-even-if-u-s-operations-were-halted-today/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nicole Ghio https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/06/19/toxic-effects-of-drilling-fracking-will-grow-for-decades-even-if-u-s-operations-were-halted-today/#comment-236830 Nicole Ghio Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:04:17 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=28486#comment-236830 Dear Friends, The Trump administration wants to open land near Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks to a massive expansion of fracking. People who live in communities impacted by fracking have reported being able to light their tap water on fire. And the methane pollution that fracking causes is driving climate chaos. Now, Trump is trying to expand fracking even more by making it easier to transport fracked gas through our communities. His administration wants to allow highly explosive fracked gas to be transported by rail. This is a catastrophic accident waiting to happen. But we can still stop it. The administration is required to consider public input before moving forward -- but the comment period closes on Monday. So we need you to speak up NOW! Add your comment: Say NO to transporting highly explosive fracked gas by rail! Fracked gas is far too dangerous to be transported by train. Just look at what happened in Durham, North Carolina this April. A gas leak led to officials being forced to evacuate a nearby building. But while they were evacuating, there was a massive explosion. One person died and more than a dozen others were injured. Now, imagine that accident hadn’t happened in a building -- but on train tracks cutting through New York, Pennsylvania, New England and beyond. This would be an unacceptable risk to people’s safety. On top of the safety risks, if we want to avert the worst impacts of climate chaos, we can’t keep fracking. Instead, we need to rapidly transition away from all fossil fuels. Our leaders should be making it harder -- not easier -- to build fracked gas infrastructure. Tell the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration: No fracked gas on trains! All across the country, people are standing up to the fossil fuel industry’s destruction. States from Maryland to Florida have banned or are considering banning fracking altogether due to the environmental harm it causes. These communities are sending a strong message: No one wants to live with poisoned water, man-made earthquakes, or an unlivable climate. But the Trump administration is still putting Big Polluters’ profits first. We can’t let that happen. Help send 30,000 comments before the Monday deadline: Say NO to fracked gas trains! Standing with you, Nicole Ghio, Senior fossil fuels program manager, Friends of the Earth Contact Form — https://action.foe.org/page/11801/action/1?locale=en-US Dear Friends,

The Trump administration wants to open land near Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks to a massive expansion of fracking. People who live in communities impacted by fracking have reported being able to light their tap water on fire. And the methane pollution that fracking causes is driving climate chaos.

Now, Trump is trying to expand fracking even more by making it easier to transport fracked gas through our communities. His administration wants to allow highly explosive fracked gas to be transported by rail.

This is a catastrophic accident waiting to happen. But we can still stop it. The administration is required to consider public input before moving forward — but the comment period closes on Monday. So we need you to speak up NOW!

Add your comment: Say NO to transporting highly explosive fracked gas by rail!

Fracked gas is far too dangerous to be transported by train. Just look at what happened in Durham, North Carolina this April. A gas leak led to officials being forced to evacuate a nearby building. But while they were evacuating, there was a massive explosion. One person died and more than a dozen others were injured.

Now, imagine that accident hadn’t happened in a building — but on train tracks cutting through New York, Pennsylvania, New England and beyond. This would be an unacceptable risk to people’s safety.

On top of the safety risks, if we want to avert the worst impacts of climate chaos, we can’t keep fracking. Instead, we need to rapidly transition away from all fossil fuels. Our leaders should be making it harder — not easier — to build fracked gas infrastructure.

Tell the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration: No fracked gas on trains!

All across the country, people are standing up to the fossil fuel industry’s destruction. States from Maryland to Florida have banned or are considering banning fracking altogether due to the environmental harm it causes.

These communities are sending a strong message: No one wants to live with poisoned water, man-made earthquakes, or an unlivable climate. But the Trump administration is still putting Big Polluters’ profits first. We can’t let that happen.

Help send 30,000 comments before the Monday deadline: Say NO to fracked gas trains!

Standing with you, Nicole Ghio,
Senior fossil fuels program manager,
Friends of the Earth

Contact Form — https://action.foe.org/page/11801/action/1?locale=en-US

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