VICTORY!!!!!! DRBC VOTE CANCELLED! Stay tuned for next steps. Another announcement in the morning.

by joshfoxgasland

DRBC VOTE CANCELLED!
YOU DID IT. YOU WON.

All of your calls. All of your emails. Your pledges to swarm the DRBC in Trenton on November 21^st.
All of your pressure and all of your strength.

You stopped fracking in the Delaware River Basin for now. You won this round. It is not a complete victory but it is a huge victory. You brought us back from the brink of total devastation.

What cancellation means: The DRBC doesn’t hold a meeting to vote down their regulations. I’ve only ever seen them vote to approve things. Which means they cancel the meeting if they no longer have 3 out of 5 commissioners voting in favor of fracking. Which is exactly what they have done. They don’t cancel meetings often, let alone votes.

Your voice made a tremendous difference. I am humbled, proud and beyond thankful.

Of course, in my wildest dreams...

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Delware River Keeper Letter - DRBC VOTES NO!

Source Link: www.delawareriverkeeper.org

Markell: Delaware will vote against controversial drilling in Delaware River watershed

6:01 PM, Nov. 17, 2011

Gov. Jack Markell said late today that Delaware will vote against a regional agency plan to allow a controversial type of deep shale-gas drilling in the Delaware River watershed, citing unsettled and inadequate terms for state and local environmental safeguards and insufficient public review of recently amended regulatory proposals.

The letter, sent to the governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York and the Army Corps of Engineers, emerged just ahead of Monday’s Delaware River Basin Commission vote on new regulations to allow the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to develop natural gas wells across the northern and northwestern tier of the 13,000-acre watershed.

Fracking allows well-drillers to break previously inaccessible natural gas free of deep shale beds by using high-pressure injections of water, chemicals and sand. Vast amounts of gas are believed to be trapped under a 50,000 square mile stone layer below Pennsylvania and New York and similar deposits around the eastern United States.

Drilling advocates see the gas as an untapped source of wealth and reliable, cleaner-burning domestic energy. Critics see the drilling practice as a threat to groundwater and air quality, and as a potential source of spills, runoff and aquifer pollution that could eventually contaminate the Delaware River itself.'

“This risk is a significant concern for Delaware and therefore, until we have confidence that the Commission's Natural Gas Development Regulations, coupled with the state and local regulations upon which they rely, are adequately protective of this water supply, I have a duty to current and future generations of Delawareans to vote no,” Markell said in a letter sent during a stopover in Kuwait, during his return trip from visiting Delaware troops stationed in Afghanistan.

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Petition to Stop fracking in the Delaware River Basin: Only 6,000 more signatures needed!

Please sign and forward the petition to everyone.

In just a few days, the Delaware River Watershed, which provides drinking water to 15 million people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, could be opened up to the dangers of horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing (also known as fracking).


The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) has proposed a plan to lift a three year ban on fracking and, for the first time, allow this risky new method of gas drilling, that has already contaminated water supplies across the country.¹

The DRBC is meeting on November 21st to vote on the proposed regulations. Each state's governor, along with President Obama, have a representative on the commission. We need to strongly urge them to reject this dangerous plan.

Tell President Obama and your governor: Protect our drinking water - don't frack the Delaware watershed!

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Josh Fox on Democracy Now : Don't frack the Delaware River!

Source: DemocracyNow
Nov 11 2011

This is a defining moment in our time for the Delaware River.  On November 21st, the Delaware River Basin Commission will decide whether or not to end the moratorium that has protected the Delaware River from catastrophic events from gas fracking.

Please forward this video and your support to everyone that you know to help raise awareness to protect the fresh waters of the Delaware River.