Community | November 30, 2011 | 16 comments

VIDEO Water for Dimock: Bring emergency aid to Pennsylvania fracking victims!

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On November 30th, 2011 the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will allow Cabot Oil and Gas co. to halt delivery of water to families in Dimock, leaving them with only the toxic, flammable water that has made them ill and caused skin lesions.

The time has come to take action to support our friends in Dimock. Cabot Oil and Gas, and the Pennsylvania DEP are neglecting their responsibility to aid the people whose lives they damaged. Tell Pennsylvania Governor Corbett he made the wrong choice, effectively selling out his constituents and allowing a travesty of justice to take place on his watch.

Please sign our petition: http://j.mp/rGorpS, and take a minute to call the Secretary of the Pennsylvania DEP, Michael Krancer, at 717-787-2814 and tell him to reverse the DEP decision and force Cabot to continue delivering water to the families in Dimock. You can also call Scott Perry of the DEP here: 717-576-7613 and call Governor Corbett here: 717-787-2500.

For more info go to: www.waterdefense.org
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16 comments // VIDEO Water for Dimock: Bring emergency aid to Pennsylvania fracking victims! // Video

  • coolplanet
    • +2
      coolplanet  

    • Signed, sealed, delivered.....
      Dimock is in my neck of the woods.
      I grew up on a farm in Washington county, where they have recently drilled thousands of fracking wells. Even in my Pittsburgh neighborhood they are presently drilling on public land and even golf courses 500 feet from streams and rivers!
      Most people here think it is our patriotic duty and economic responsibility.
      I just look at them and say, 'Well at least you'll be able to heat your home by lighting your water spigot."
      They don't get it and just look stupid.

    • 6 months ago
  • Arizona_Huey
    • +2
      Arizona_Huey  

    • I signed the petition!!! Sad how government would rather support big oil and gas at the expense of its citizens and its environment instead of getting thoroughly behind clean alternative energy solutions.

      Do you see this on Fox - no, they're still beating the drums against the one solar energy investment that failed.

    • 6 months ago
  • Anonmaly
    • +2
      Anonmaly  

    • It's pretty bad when you're looking for a change of scenery, and "fracking" comes into the equation... And they just keep leasing more land to destroy, kinda like BP in the Gulf, you'd think a democrat president would stand up to them or something.... Like how he did with big coal as per his campaign promise, oh-wait he didn't do that either....

      How soon we forget there are no such things as "clean" fossil fuels... I'm still remembering the Tennessee Valley coal slurry spill from a couple or few years ago....

    • 6 months ago
  • Leen61
  • JustZ
    • +3
      JustZ  

    • WTF; this is totally insane!

      As for signing the petition; I'd love to but how does signing a petition for a state I don't live in actually motivate anyone to listen to me?

    • 6 months ago
  • Arizona_Huey
    • +2
      Arizona_Huey  
    • JustZ:

      It really doesn't ask (or validate) you actual address. I just made up a street name (no numeric street value) and used Dimock as the city and the zip code they provided on the petition.

    • 6 months ago
  • WakeUpPeople
  • artemis6
    • +4
      artemis6  

    • This is terrible !! you cannot eat or drink anything there ... plants watered with toxins will take them up ... nothing can LIVE there .

    • 6 months ago
  • squarethecircle
  • lazloman
    • +5
      lazloman  

    • This is a shame. Pennsylvania is a swing state, crucial for winning a national election. But just like many other states, Wi. Me. Fl. Mi, etc, these rethuglican governors are sh*****g all over their residents. Why does the rethuglican party think these very same people will support a presidential candidate who will promise to do the same nationally? Its beyond me, but in spite of the economy, Obama has a chance to win with an even bigger mandate than he got last time.

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • lazloman
  • JustZ
  • JanforGore
    • +6
      JanforGore  

    • Will do. They are doing this for appearances sake. The water deliveries implicate them for toxifying the water and they don't want that known. Should I also call and ask these people to go to Dimock and take a nice long drink of water to prove it's safe? I bet they would decline.

    • 6 months ago
  • artemis6
  • WakeUpPeople
    • +4
      WakeUpPeople  
    • JanforGore:

      I say we ask Congress to live off of the water for a month. Ship it in and watch them ingest it. If fracking is such a safe practice, they should have no problem taking that offer. If they refuse, they sure as hell better work on regulation (preferably banning).

      There I go daydreaming again.

    • 6 months ago
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