[Occupymendocino] FW: Don't frack California farms

Thu Dec 6 11:07:17 PST 2012

From: tw at mcn.org
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:55:36 -0800
Subject: Don't frack California farms
To: tw at mcn.org

Begin forwarded message from FB City Councillor Meg Courtney <mcourtney1 at mcn.org>
Please forward this. It's is really bad. I didn't know until now about the BLM auctioning off public lands for this environmentally devastating practice.

Meg

Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to Bureau of Land Management California State Director James Kenna:

"It is simply irresponsible to auction off oil and fracking rights in California when no regulations exist to protect us from this dangerous practice. Cancel the December 12 lease auction and stop selling leases to public land in California for fracking."

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Tell the Bureau of Land Management: Don't frack California.
Dear Meg,
California still has zero regulation to protect our health and water from dangerous fracking — but that's not stopping the Bureau of Land Management from auctioning off almost 18,000 acres of land for oil drilling and fracking next week.1
Fracking contaminates precious water with toxic chemicals,2 generates cancer-causing air emissions,3and in California could pollute crucial agricultural water and lands in the Central Valley, as parts of Monterey, San Benito and Fresno counties are being auctioned off.
California's environmental regulators are still drafting fracking regulations and fracking is exempt from many critical environmental laws like the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act, so the BLM's rush to auction off federal mineral rights puts Californians totally at the mercy of the fracking industry and should not move forward.
Tell Bureau of Land Management California State Director James Kenna: Don't frack California. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Each fracked oil well permanently contaminates millions of gallons of water with toxic chemicals that can leak into nearby water sources and wells. That puts California's farming communities, many of which sit on top of oil that would be extracted with fracking, at risk in cases of fracking spills, accidents or leaks.4 Worse, because many of the oil leases being sold by the BLM are underneath private land, farmers may not even have a right to say no to oil development on their land!5
We know what the result of California's rush to frack will be if we don't stop it now. In states like Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado, fracking is making landowners sick, killing livestock, poisoning water, devastating rural land values, and even possibly introducing toxic chemicals into our food supply, all while making us more reliant on planet-warming fossil fuels.6
Many of these devastating effects are irreversible. That's why it's so important for the BLM to put its foot on the brake now, before selling off rights to oil companies to move ahead with totally unregulated fracking in California.
Tell Bureau of Land Management California State Director James Kenna: Don't frack California. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Thank you for standing up to the fracking industry.
Zack Malitz, Campaign Manager 
CREDO Action from Working Assets

1. Stephanie M. Lee, "U.S. to auction state shale for drilling," San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2012
2. Carol Linnitt, "USGS Fracking Study Confirms Methane Contamination of Drinking Water in Pavillion, Wyoming," DeSmog Blog, October 1, 2012
3. "Study shows air emissions near fracking sites may pose health risk," University of Colorado Denver Newsroom, March 19, 2012
4. Erich Schwartzel and Andrew McGill, "With gas firms entering central California, vineyard owners unsure of fracking effects on land," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 7, 2012
5. "Oil 'Fracking' May Come To Southern Monterey County," CBS San Francisco, October 26, 2012
6. Elizabeth Royte, "Fracking Our Food Supply," The Nation, November 28, 2012

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