Stop Fracking from Happening in Your Watershed

Quick and concerted action is needed now to stop fracking from impacting watershed in Atlantic Canada. Sierra Club Atlantic is calling for an immediate moratorium on fracking and for a complete review of how this industry is being regulated. We have also called on federal Departments of Environment, Fisheries ad Oceans, and Natural Resources to become engaged in regulating this industry.

We need your help to help stop fracking from impacting our watersheds.

To Your Leaders

Write to your Federal and Provincial Leaders

Ask them to act NOW to establish a moratorium and a full regulatory review that includes provincial and federal governments, as well as public consultation!

Here are key contacts:

To the Editor

Write to your local newspaper to express your concern about fracking. ! Here are some things you may wish to include:

• fracking injects massive amounts of water laced with chemical, sand and /or ceramic pellets into shale rock to extract natural gas

• drilling and fracking can contaminate watershed, jeopardizing the safety of our groundwater and surface water

• the use of large volumes of water in fracking can also decrease water available for other uses, like drinking, agriculture, etc.

• concerns about fracking have lead the state of New York to declare a moratorium until its Department of Environmental Conservation conducts a comprehensive review

• right now, fracking companies in Canada are not even required to disclose what chemicals they are using

• there are also potential health threats from the toxic waste water produced by this drilling, and possible gas well blowouts.

Be sure to ask for a moratorium and a regulatory review that includes provincial and federal governments, as well as public consultation!

If you'd like more reading, go to the Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing in Atlantic Canada. This guide outlines the fracking process, the risks fracking poses (to air, water, and our economy), as well as a look at fracking in the four Atlantic Provinces.

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