Monday, April 2, 2012

It Is Official...Fracking Impacts FOOD CHAIN

At Risk Resource
In news just in from Colorado, seems that our food chain is now officially THREATENED by the push for Natural Gas using the dangerous industrial practice that is commonly referred to as FRACKING.  We already know that fracking will poison our water...well, farmers in Colorado who in the past have been the winning  bidders for unallocated water were outbid by Natural Gas bidders...which means the water our farmers rely upon for crops is NOT THERE, is now OWNED BY FRACKING COMPANIES.

Northern Water Conservancy District runs the auction which sells off unallocated water from the Colorado River Basin, and the bidding is open to any one who has a beneficial use for the water...so, polluting some 500,000 to 5 million gallons of water (per well) with lethal and cancer causing chemicals, pumping it thousands of feet down into the ground to EXPLODE ROCKS is a BENEFICIAL USE?  Furthermore, that water which would normally feed back into the environment is LOST FOREVER, unlike water used to water crops that in turn feed people.  

Also not factored into this equation...farmers were outbid at the auctions, so there is the reality of lost food sources, but as prices for this dwindling resource (FRESH POTABLE WATER) continue to soar as the (un)Natural Gas industry demand for water increases, there is the very real fear of the price for food going up to a point where folks just will not be able to afford to buy it.  In just one year the price for the water at this particular auction has risen on average six dollars per acre-foot from $22 last year, with some of the (un)Natural Gas industry's winning bids going as high as $35.  

Ask yourselves America...are you willing to pay higher prices to feed your family so that companies like Cabot, Exxon and Chesapeake Energy can ship Natural Gas overseas to China?  Are you willing to see streams, rivers and lakes sucked dry in the name of oil and gas company profits?

This is a fight that average Americans can win, but only if we all join forces and speak with a united voice at every level of government.  Right now, a letter is sitting at the townhall in Fallsburg, NY.  Said letters asks Steve Vegliante and the town board to ban fracking in our small community...every community in America, the citizens in those communities should be seeking similar bans.  

If you live in the geographical footprint of the town of Fallsburg, contact Steve Vegliante, ask him and the other board members to move forward in changing our zoning laws to ban fracking.  Write letters to the editor, call your local, state and elected officials asking that they ban the practice of fracking.  Get involved before it is too late...the cost to our environment, water supplies and our health is too great, and as this latest story shows, get involved in this battle before you cannot even afford to feed your children.

Anti Frackers...Demand a FRACKING BAN

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