Fracking Considered in Ionia County – FOX 17.
The beginning of the end of “Pure Michigan” and still the lies promulgated by the oil industry receive the most press while the dangers are downplayed.
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jstephencleghorn | angerandcourage.
If you’re still undecided about the fracking issue, check out this Pennsylvania residents blog. It will provide some information with a more “first-hand” view than what I have here in Michigan so far.
Food For Thought
It came to me this morning, that many of you who are still straddling the fence on the whole fracking issue may not have thought of two things…
1) There are a lot of TV ads proclaiming the safety of fracking…if that were true, do you really think the oil/gas companies would spend so much money on commercials to convince you?
2) Let’s say you didn’t sell or lease your mineral rights and you aren’t worried about it. Take a drive two miles from your home (Google Earth will do it with satellites so you can map your route before leaving home) and if you see an area of land about the size of four-football fields THAT is an area where a frack well could sit.
What does that mean to you? Well, once they turn that drill bit horizontally they can drill up to two miles away. That means they could drill under your land…yes, right in your back yard. And guess what? Your well water is now at risk for contamination. Your neighbor, who is two miles away from you, will be the person getting that nice fat check for the lease of their mineral rights and residual income if the well produces…..and you get nothing…except perhaps water that you can’t drink or bathe in.
How is that fair?
Go to http://www.letsbanfracking.org and find out where you can sign a petition to get this on the ballot in 2014. Better yet, sign up and commit to getting 12 or more signatures in the next two weeks. We still have time to slow this down now and stop it in 2014.
Call or write your state representative (find your state representative and how to contact them here):
http://www.house.mi.gov/mhrpublic/
and your state senator (find your state senator and how to contact him/her here):
http://www.senate.michigan.gov/fysenator/fysenator.htm
and
Governor Rick Snyder:
PHONE: (517) 373-3400
PHONE: (517) 335-7858 – Constituent Services
FAX:(517) 335-6863
Mail: Governor Rick Snyder
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, Michigan 48909
Talk to your local government and let them know you are against fracking.
Industrial Scars
This is an amazing pictorial piece. Click on each photo to move to the next one. We really need to stop this from happening anywhere else.
Let’s get involved with phone calls to our elected officials; phone calls, emails and regular mail to the national groups who are simply asking for “more legislation” to make it safer. You can’t make poisoning the earth “safer” we can only put a stop to it.
Radiation Exposure from Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Radiation Exposure from Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
You really have to check out the information on Radiation Exposure in this article.
With the worry in the scientific and medical communities regarding the US’s potential for exposure to radioactive isotopes from Japan, it seems ever more important to stop the rape of our continent by the oil/gas companies…especially in and around Michigan which is home to one fifth (1/5) of the worlds fresh water supply.
In a “worst case scenario” Michigan’s fresh water could mean the difference between extinction and survival. This huge fresh water supply should be considered a national treasure and be protected at all costs.
Fracking uses 6-8 million gallons of water per day…can we really afford to poison that much water? We may need it to drink and grow food in the very near future. Currently, gas prices are very low, due to the glut on the market from all the gas made available from the frack sites currently operating. There’s absolutely NO NEED to continue to mine natural gas in America right now.
Call your representatives, senators and governor(s) and tell them Fracking is not what America needs right now. Heck, call the President too while you’re at it.
We don’t need radioactive anything…
A friend who is a member of the Sierra Club sent me this info in an email last week.
“Back in July, on one of those 100+ degree days, Consumers Power recorded their highest electricity use day in Michigan history.
What was most significant about that was that both Davis-Besse (near Detroit) and Palisades (near South Haven) nuke plants were off-line that day, and there were no black-outs or brown-outs. This suggests that we do not need these dangerous, aging dinosaurs in our energy mix; especially considering how expensive they are compared to renewables. We need more wind and solar to supply our energy needs in the future.
Vote for 25% by 2025 on your November ballot!”
Study: Gas from ‘fracking’ worse than coal on climate – The Hill’s E2-Wire
Study: Gas from ‘fracking’ worse than coal on climate – The Hill’s E2-Wire.
You can run from Global Warming, but you can’t hide from the truth of the weather we are currently experiencing. To continue to claim that Global Warming is anything other than a reality, is to look at what IS and claim it isn’t. WE need to commit to wind and solar before it’s too late. More development in, and use of, fossil fuels could spell the end of humanity. Are you really ready to die? Are you willing to sign the death warrant for your family? It appears your elected officials are.
Get out of your comfort zone, get a petition to ammend the Michigan constitution in your hand and commit to getting 10 or 12 signatures.
It’ll be good for you and good for all the rest of us too. Visit http://letsbanfracking.org/index.html to find where you can get a petition to pass around. There are several other petitions making the rounds, put out by other groups. I won’t state that they are trying to cloud the issue and keep the legitimate petition from gaining the signatures it needs to be put on the ballot. But, I will state that you need to pay close attention to what it is you really want, and what you are signing.
STUDY: Fracking Chemicals Are Killing And Neutering Pets And Farm Animals – Business Insider
STUDY: Fracking Chemicals Are Killing And Neutering Pets And Farm Animals – Business Insider.
If these chemicals can do this to our animals, you know we are next. Animals serve as our sentinels, we need to pay attention!
Natural Gas Drilling Debate Heats Up: Read Our Guide – ProPublica
Natural Gas Drilling Debate Heats Up: Read Our Guide – ProPublica.
This isn’t going to go-away unless we make it happen. The greed of corporate America and the corruption of the media and government won’t go away unless we, the 99% make ourselves heard.
Get petitions and circulate them. Write letters. Write emails. Make phone calls. Get out there and make a difference. If we don’t save ourselves, we have no one to blame when it all comes crashing down except ourselves.
“They” have already begun drilling in Ionia County, Allegan County, and southern Barry County.
The time to get involved is NOW !
Who Are America’s Top 10 Gas Drillers? – ProPublica
Who Are America’s Top 10 Gas Drillers? – ProPublica.
Remember, there are safe and sound methods of powering America that don’t include raping the planet!
These companies don’t care about the public interest, only their own greed for ever more money.
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