Drilling Concerns: Make Your Voice Heard
Here are two places on the Internet where you can add your voice to those of many others concerned about natural gas drilling issues.
By clicking on either or both of the links below, your computer will take you to the Web page where you can fill out a brief online form. Then you click to send a message about drilling. Each form has message already drafted. You can edit it, substitute a message of your own, or just click and the original message gets sent.
Please pass this message along to others who you think might be interested.
(1) Sierra Club Take Action: Email - Take Action Now To Protect Our State Forests From More Drilling
You have probably heard about the new "gold rush" in Pennsylvania to lease more state forest land to drillers. Drilling rigs from all over the country are moving into the Keystone State, to tap into the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit that lies under large parts of Pennsylvania. And these companies, like Exxon and Chesapeake Energy, want to drill in our precious State Forests, threatening our water supplies, wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities that belong to all Pennsylvanians. We are fighting back. Legislation has been introduced to stop the expansion of drilling on our public State Forests until current drilling can be evaluated.
Our 2.1 million acre State Forest system comprises some of the best, most remote wildlife habitat in Pennsylvania. The 1 million acre "Pennsylvania Wilds", in the northcentral part of our state, is in the bullseye of the drillers, degrading the environment and quality of living in this tourism-based region. Currently, almost 700,000 acres of State Forests are already open to gas drilling.
80 new Marcellus gas wells are expected to be drilled in state forests in 2010. But the drillers want more! And Governor Rendell is supporting them while ignoring the environmental professionals in his Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), who have cautioned him no that additional state forests lands should be leased for gas drilling....
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=161161.0&dlv_id=139661
(2) Tell Cabot Oil&Gas to obey the Clean Water Act - PennEnvironment
As gas drillers rush to drill for gas in Pennsylvania, a number of them have already broken our cornerstone environmental laws. Cabot was one of the first to get caught red handed contaminating local residents’ drinking water in northeast Pennsylvania. Email Cabot Oil & Gas’s CEO, Dan Dinges, and tell him that you expect companies doing work in Pennsylvania to be good corporate neighbors—and not illegally pollute our environment....
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