We the People petition @ Whitehouse.gov (re: Hydraulic Hydrofracturing)

[Earth_First]

Last edited Wed Feb 1, 2012, 11:13 AM - Edit history (4)

Please consider signing the following petition @ Whitehouse.gov

We petition the obama administration to:

Protect communities from the negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and natural gas drilling.

Rapid development of fracking has overwhelmed communities with negative impacts: drinking water contamination, intense industrialization of farm and forest lands (with loss of habitat), polluted streams, heavy truck traffic and accidents on rural roads, even earthquakes from deep well injection of wastewater.

Hailed as an abundant bridge energy supply, shale gas drilling was exempted from provisions of major environmental laws, while we now know the supply is much less than previously thought.

We ask the Administration to protect our drinking water by restoring the protections of the Safe Drinking Water Act to natural gas drilling, to eliminate all other exemptions fracking enjoys, to prohibit drilling in national parks and highly sensitive lands and tightly restrict export of shale gas.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/protect-communities-negative-impacts-hydraulic-fracturing-fracking-and-natural-gas-drilling/FznjQPPr

[Earth_First]

1. As per *all* We the People petitions at Whitehouse.gov

A mere 25,000 signatures requires the administration to address the issue publicly...

We can do this!

Please share with your friends, family memebers and through social media outlets...

This Central New York Finger Lakes region resident thanks you from the bottom of his heart...

THANK YOU!

[livetohike]

3. The link isn't working Earth_First

As your sister across the border in Northern PA, thanks for posting this. Will sign and spread the word.

[limpyhobbler]

2. link doesn't seem to be working.

I noticed those whitehouse petition links are kind of flaky sometimes.

There is usually a short link that goes to a wh.gov address.

[Earth_First]

4. I will look into it...

Thank you for the heads up!

[hootinholler]

5. I wasn't able to find it via searching the petitions either

I will be happy to sign on to this petition if I could only find it.