[CRNMC] my last version of the press release

[edward Oberweiser]

Hi folks,

Here is my final version of the press release for Measure S. I put myself
as a contact for the PR because media like to have a local person to
contact. Is that alright with everyone?

Ed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                         July 29, 2014

CONTACT:
CRNMC Media Team
crnmc-media at crnmc.org

Ed Oberweiser CRNMC
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Shannon Biggs, Global Exchange 415.575.5540  Shannon at globalexchange.org


Mendocino County Verifies Signatures

Ordinance seeks to reassert our inalienable rights to protect water
with a Fracking Ban on November Ballot



The Community Rights Network of Mendocino County has placed an ordinance on
the November ballot that asserts Mendocino County has the right to protect
its water from fracking.

The Community Rights Network gathered almost double the signatures needed
to qualify for the ballot in just 35 days so voters can make the final
decision in November. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the measure
for the ballot.

.Measure S will establish a Community Bill of Rights for the people and
natural environment of Mendocino County  new civil, political, and
environmental rights., all built on the right of local, community
self-government These include the right to live in a healthy and safe
ecosystem and the right to protect local water from danger. In order to
uphold and protect those rights, the initiative bans all fracking related
activities within the County including the transportation of fracking
fluids, and the use of local water for fracking.

Measure S states that Mendocino County citizens have the right to safeguard
the county's water both on and beneath the Earth's surface by banning
fracking in Mendocino County. It says that Mendocino County citizens have
the duty to ensure that local water is safeguarded by decisions made by
local people.

Measure S elevates the rights of the people of Mendocino back where they
belong, above the claimed "rights" of corporations and state agencies
that enable fracking corporations to profit from the destruction of
local ecosystems and to harm residents and communities

California and Mendocino County are both in emergency drought status and
Measure S will protect our water from being used and polluted by the highly
controversial natural gas extraction process known as fracking.

Fracking places a toxic mix of largely unknown chemicals into the earth
that has leaked into the  water supply of many communities on the East
Coast, Colorado and Texas.

If Measure S passes, Mendocino County will join 170 other communities in
the U.S. that have passed community rights ordinances against corporate
harm to their ecosystems.
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