The Congressional Republicans are not letting the tarsand pipeline to die.
Only two weeks after President Obama stood his ground and killed the permit for this environmental nightmare, Republicans on Capitol Hill are now threatening to hold key legislation hostage unless Big Oil gets to run a river of the world’s dirtiest oil through our nation’s heartland. Source NRDC
What these politicians fail to see is that all Americans deserve clean water.
It’s so disappointing to see People magazine covering one of the leading threats to our rivers and clean water supplies – fracking.
Living with Fracking | People MagazineThe natural gas drilling technique known as fracking is a hot topic, highlighted by President Obama in the State of the Union address.
This write up reminded me of the article I read in the Reader's Digest last year "How Safe is Our Water Really?" The water that we consider to be the purest and cleanest was actually found to contain traits of dissolved organic components and even rocket fuel?!?!?At the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) researchers were alarmed by the threat to the river water quality, so they came up with the 'World's 10 top rivers at risk report'. What's worthwhile to note here is that none of the American Rivers were listed in this report.
Unfortunately, in the wake of recent developments regarding the fracking, the same list will have to be populated once again.
Seeing this the researchers at the American River noted the threats that fracking poses to our drinking water supplies and the health of our rivers and streams.
For the past two years, they've highlighted natural gas drilling as the leading threat to America’s Most Endangered Rivers®.
The February 6 issue of People introduces us to a family in Pennsylvania whose tap water catches on fire, drawing links to fracking and exploring the controversy.
We used to have rivers of fire: Its True
“Back in the 1970s, contamination came out of the end of a pipe. You could see it—we actually had the Cuyahoga River on fire. We’ve made progress on that, but now we have to worry about what happens when it rains. Water runs over city streets, suburban lawns treated with fertilizer and pesticides, and agricultural lands that may also have been treated or have animal feeding operations, and into our rivers and streams. Runoff is now thought by most folks to be the biggest source of water pollution.” — Lisa Jackson
My only thought right now is that if we do not act fast to prevent all these projects from execution without a conscious, then the fracking shall prove to be a timebomb for not only to the most vulnerable ecosystems in Alaska but also to our potable water supply in the near future.
Only two weeks after President Obama stood his ground and killed the permit for this environmental nightmare, Republicans on Capitol Hill are now threatening to hold key legislation hostage unless Big Oil gets to run a river of the world’s dirtiest oil through our nation’s heartland. Source NRDC
What these politicians fail to see is that all Americans deserve clean water.
It’s so disappointing to see People magazine covering one of the leading threats to our rivers and clean water supplies – fracking.
Living with Fracking | People MagazineThis write up reminded me of the article I read in the Reader's Digest last year "How Safe is Our Water Really?" The water that we consider to be the purest and cleanest was actually found to contain traits of dissolved organic components and even rocket fuel?!?!?At the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) researchers were alarmed by the threat to the river water quality, so they came up with the 'World's 10 top rivers at risk report'. What's worthwhile to note here is that none of the American Rivers were listed in this report.
Unfortunately, in the wake of recent developments regarding the fracking, the same list will have to be populated once again.
Seeing this the researchers at the American River noted the threats that fracking poses to our drinking water supplies and the health of our rivers and streams.
For the past two years, they've highlighted natural gas drilling as the leading threat to America’s Most Endangered Rivers®.
The February 6 issue of People introduces us to a family in Pennsylvania whose tap water catches on fire, drawing links to fracking and exploring the controversy.
We used to have rivers of fire: Its True
“Back in the 1970s, contamination came out of the end of a pipe. You could see it—we actually had the Cuyahoga River on fire. We’ve made progress on that, but now we have to worry about what happens when it rains. Water runs over city streets, suburban lawns treated with fertilizer and pesticides, and agricultural lands that may also have been treated or have animal feeding operations, and into our rivers and streams. Runoff is now thought by most folks to be the biggest source of water pollution.” — Lisa Jackson
My only thought right now is that if we do not act fast to prevent all these projects from execution without a conscious, then the fracking shall prove to be a timebomb for not only to the most vulnerable ecosystems in Alaska but also to our potable water supply in the near future.
Let the sleeping dogs lie!
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