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MARK RUFFALO, GASLAND DIRECTOR, JOSH FOX, NEW YORKERS SEND EMERGENCY WATER RELIEF TO PA FRACKING VICTIMS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(NYC & Dimock, PA)— It wasn’t a flood or natural disaster that left more than a dozen families in Dimock, PA without clean drinking water. The disaster in Dimock was caused by the Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation’s use of the hazardous gas drilling method known as fracking. Since 2008 the well water of eleven families has been contaminated with toxic chemicals, flammable gas, and radioactive material.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Conservation found Cabot to be at fault for the contamination, and for the past three years the gas company has been forced to supply weekly deliveries of drinking water to the families. But last month, the PA DEP cut a deal with Cabot, allowing them to stop the water deliveries as of November 30th—leaving the Dimock families with only the toxic, flammable water that has given them headaches and caused skin sores, with the potential for serious long term health effects.

With their last water delivery quickly running out, citizens throughout the region have stepped in to help. On December 6th, Mark Ruffalo, actor and founder of Water Defense, and Gasland Director Josh Fox will join other advocates to deliver clean drinking water from New York State to the eleven Dimock families.

*Press event will be held on the steps of City Hall at 9:30am, with buses bringing NYC water to Dimock, arriving at 2:30pm for second press event.

Who: Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are Alright), Josh Fox (Gasland), Dimock fracking victims, Craig & Julie Sautner, NYC City Council, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Water Defense, United for Action, National Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch, Catskill Mountainkeeper, and Delaware Riverkeepers

What: Celebrities, Advocates bring pristine New York Water to Dimock, PA fracking victims
Where: NYC Press Event @ 9:30am

Steps of City Hall, Manhattan, NY

Dimock, PA Press Event @ 2:30pm

Home of fracking victims, Craig & Julie Saunter

1101 Carter Road, Dimock, PA

When: Tuesday, December 6th

Schedule:

9:30am NYC Press Event on City Hall Steps

10:30pm Buses with celebrities, advocates bringing NYC water depart for Dimock

2:30pm Dimock, PA Press Conference where advocates will replenish water tanks

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OCCUPY DRBC INFO - Important update - Buses, WTFrack.org rep and more

Occupy DRBC OCTOBER 21, 2011

The DRBC has changed the date to NOVEMBER 21, 2011

CONNECTING THE DOTS FROM WALL STREET TO WATER

We are standing in solidarity with our friends from Occupy Wall Street.

While the Oil & Gas Industry makes record profits, and pays minimal taxes, they threaten our clean water and health.

WE VALUE CLEAN WATER & GREEN ENERGY OVER CORPORATE GREED!

On November 21, 2011, the DRBC plans to issue fracking regulations giving the green light to frack in the Delaware River Basin, drinking water source to 15 million Americans: NYC, Philadelphia, NY, PA, NJ, DE.

Please take these 3 Actions:

1. Help turn up the heat as Nov 21st approaches

Please write a letter now to the 5 voting members of the DRBC: http://bit.ly/qXgDX8 Just scroll down for the letter.

Call the Governors and President Obama TODAY and tell them Don’t Drill the Delaware, and Don’t approve ANY regulations to permit fracking!

1.  Governor Christie’s office - 609-292-6000

2.  Governor Cuomo’s office - 518-474-8390

3.  Gov Corbett’s office – 717-787-2500

4.  Gov Markell’s Wilmington Office - 302-577-3210

5.  And the white house comment line is 202-456-1111

2. No matter what, BE THERE:

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

10:00 AM - Noon (doors open at 9:30)

Patriots Theater

1 Memorial Drive

Trenton, NJ

That’s Where and When the DRBC Decides the Fate of Our Watershed And We Learn Whether the Fracked-Gas Industry Has Bought Our Government

3. Lawful non-violent direct action training sessions will be offered the night before, Sunday, Nov. 20 in NYC, as well as in Trenton on Monday morning, Nov. 21.

For more info: http://savethedelaware.wordpress.com/

Corporate Greed vs. Clean Energy and OUR RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER

We’ve Got Buses Going!

To find a bus or carpool from your area, just type your zipcode, and click: http://bit.ly/Nov21Travel

From Philadelphia:

Meet at 30th Street Station, 6:30 AM, Return around 2:00 PM

Go to Protecting Our Waters at http://bit.ly/o0rec3

From NYC: http://bit.ly/qsgH9p

Can’t pay for the bus??? We’ll find a way!

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DENVER, CO Supports Occupy DRBC and we have selected a representative/journalist/film-maker, Wade Norris to represent our anonymity at DRBC. We have not met him, but know his excellent work!

 

JOIN MARK RUFFALO NOV 21: SAVE THE DELAWARE RIVER - NOV 21st

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NY Attorney General Sues Federal Government Over Fracking

The federal government is being sued for allowing natural gas drilling, which involves the potentially harmful "fracking" technique, without conducting a full environmental review. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a lawsuit yesterday that seeks to compel federal agencies to conduct an environmental review before the regulations authorizing gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin are finalized. Obviously, this goes against the gas industry's motto of "frack first, question later."

The fracking process involves injecting chemicals, sand, and millions of gallons of water into shale rock, releasing trapped gas. Unfortunately it's not just the gas that gets shaken loose; the water that was injected into the rock eventually resurfaces, and is often polluted with carcinogenic chemicals.

"The federal government has an obligation to undertake the necessary studies, and as I made clear last month, this office will compel it to do so. The welfare of those living near the Delaware River Basin, as well as the millions of New Yorkers who rely on its pure drinking water each day, will not be ignored," Attorney General Schneiderman said in a statement. "

The lawsuit comes in the midst of mounting opposition to fracking throughout New York State, and weeks after a well blew out at a Pennsylvania gas drilling site, contaminating local waterways with thousands of gallons of drilling fluids. Schneiderman points out that 58 percent of the land area of New York City's West-of-Hudson watershed is within the Delaware River Basin, and that portion of the watershed provides most of the drinking water used by over nine million New York residents and visitors.

His lawsuit maintains that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies must conduct a full review of the impact of the proposed natural gas development regulations. And Schneiderman has the backing of his predecessor, Governor Andrew Cuomo, who last week said he "wants state officials to fully understand what hydrofracking is, before the controversial form of natural gas extraction is approved in New York."

For more on fracking and how it could affect you, here's awesome actor and upstate resident Mark Ruffalo:

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