The NIMBY Well Pad -- In Your Back Yard?
PETITION — “No Drilling Under the Ohio River”
Petition by Robin Mahonen, Ohio County, WV
The Wheeling Water Warriors and multiple other concerned groups call on you to stop plans to drill under the Ohio River.
The Ohio River provides drinking water to over 3 million people, and 10% of the population of the United States lives in the Ohio River Valley. The Ohio River is 981 miles long, and runs through six states: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, and is the largest source of water for the Mississippi River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. This intracoastal waterway needs to be kept safe from hydraulic fracturing, which has caused the contamination of numerous water sources in our region, and which is also implicated in increased seismic activity and earthquakes.
West Virginia is already overrun with fossil fuel extractive industries which pollute our air, land and water and negatively disrupt our lives. Our state is unparalleled in its natural resources, and yet we are among the poorest states in the country. We believe that corporate interests have prevailed over the best interests of the citizens of this state. We are told there is an economic crisis which requires us to drill under the river. Clearly, if our communities are polluted, our public health is ravaged, our environment devastated, and we are not reaping the economic benefits which we were promised for this sacrifice, it is not a sacrifice we are willing to make.
In the wake of the recent MCHM water crisis and other contaminations in our state just this year, we must act now to prevent wild, wonderful West Virginia from becoming an industrial wasteland, preserve our river, and our precious water resources.
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NOTE: Over 3,570 individuals have already signed this Petition, with a target for 5,000 likely to be achieved within a few days. This is a great risk to the people of the Ohio valley and to the environment if such drilling and fracking takes place. Already, there has been the incident at Natrium where gas well drilling has interrupted a salt well of Axiall Chemical, formerly PPG Chemicals. The earthquakes of the Youngstown area in Ohio are another indicator of trouble. If the WV Governor and WV-DNR persist, then an environmental impact assessment would be an essential first step, but none has been done! DGN
The Petition is here — https://www.change.org/p/randy-c-huffman-no-drilling-under-the-ohio-river
See also: www.FrackCheckWV.net
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I have seen the results of putting the pipeline under creeks here in Pa. It is not good. The creeks are blown out on purpose and poisoned. DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN !!!!
This could ruin the drinking water for many.
It’s 2014. WE NEED NEED NEED to move away from Fracking. Let’s focus on clean energy solutions.
COME ON, PEOPLE. We need new technology. The time is now. PLEASE.
People are getting sick and dying due to cancer and other medical conditions that ARE LINKED TO FRACKING.
ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
Maria, we just can’t do that. Real people are getting sick and loosing the things they hold dear, and a lot of property value. We can’t just blow by that to an idealistic solution. It provides much of the motivation to make the change. Much of the public is not prepared to change from what they have always done on the basis of environment alone. This is because they have not learned the importance of the biological world in their education, and because the big money has politicized their financial interest.
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