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Citoyen américain, lève-toi !
Disons, mes chers cinq lecteurs que c'est le cri que j'ai envie d'émettre à voir ce que les sociétés multinationales font au peuple américain, la même que chez les autres d'ailleurs.
Citoyen de la libre amérique, africains, sud-américains, même combat !
(source : ecowatch)
Fracking Victims Demand EPA Reopen Investigations Into
Poisoned Drinking Water
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Citoyen américain, lève-toi !
Disons, mes chers cinq lecteurs que c'est le cri que j'ai envie d'émettre à voir ce que les sociétés multinationales font au peuple américain, la même que chez les autres d'ailleurs.
Citoyen de la libre amérique, africains, sud-américains, même combat !
(source : ecowatch)
Fracking Victims Demand EPA Reopen Investigations Into
Poisoned Drinking Water
September
26, 2013
Residents
personally harmed by gas drilling and fracking held
a press
conference in front
of the White House yesterday and delivered 250,000
petition signatures
from concerned citizens across the U.S. to Environmental
Protection Agency
(EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy at EPA
headquarters. The
residents—including Ray Kemble from Pennsylvania, Steve
Lipsky and Shelly
Perdue from Texas and John Fenton from Wyoming—were
all part of the EPA
fracking investigations in their respective states that
the EPA abandoned
despite evidence of water contamination.
The petitions were
collected by Stop the Frack Attack and
Americans
Against Fracking and its advisory committee
member, actor Mark
Ruffalo. The petitions demand that t
he U.S. EPA reopen
investigations into fracking-related drinking water
contamination in
Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming and provide
residents with safe
drinking water in the interim.
“Today, I stand
with affected community members from Dimock,
PA, Pavilion, WY,
and Parker County, TX, to call on President Obama
and the EPA to
re-open the investigations on the link between fracking
and drinking water
contamination,” said actor and advocate
Mark Ruffalo. “The
American people expect and deserve a transparent
EPA that makes
science-based decisions, free from political interference.”
This event comes a
month after Dimock, Pennsylvania resident
Ray Kemble and
Susquehanna County resident Craig Stevens
into the possible
connection between gas drilling and water contamination
in Dimock.
“Last month, we
told EPA officials that we would be back in a month
with more
petitions,” said Craig Stevens. “Today, we are here
to deliver five
times our original number of petitions, and we stand
here with affected
community members from Pavilion,WY, and Parker County,
TX, who have been
through the same nightmare we have in Pennsylvania.”
“For years now, I
have had to live with toxic, poisoned fracked water
in my home,” added
Ray Kemble, a former gas industry employee a
nd an affected
Dimock area resident, who was part of t
he EPA
investigation. “When the EPA finally stepped in and
tested my water, I
thought ‘Thank God. Someone is finally here
to help us.’ But
then it became apparent to those of us on the
ground that they
were playing politics. EPA officials officially told us
that our water was
safe to drink but then told us off-the-record not
to drink it. Now
the truth is out and we want justice.”
In late 2010 in Parker County, TX, the EPA’s investigations
led it to issue a
rare emergency order because at least two
homeowners were in
immediate danger from a well saturated
with flammable
methane. More than a year later, the agency
rescinded its
mandate without explaining why.
A subsequent Associated
Pressstory reported that although the EPA
had scientific
evidence connecting the driller, Range Resources,
with drinking water
contamination, they changed course after political
pressure from the
company and its lobbyists.
“President Obama
told us that we would only extract natural gas if
it didn’t pollute
our water,” said Steve Lipsky of Parker County, TX. “
The EPA knows my
water was polluted by fracking, their own investigator
told them so. Now I
have to truck in my drinking water. President Obama,
you need to tell
the EPA to reopen its investigations.”
“The purpose of the
EPA is to protect us all from these types
of health and
safety hazards,” said Shelly Perdue, of Parker County, TX,
whose water and air
have also been contaminated with methane.
“The methane at my
house is 18 times the explosive level. It’s time f
or President Obama
and Gina McCarthy to stand up for our communities.”
More recently, the
EPA abandoned its fracking study in Pavillion, WY,
which found benzene, a known carcinogen, at 50 times the level that is
considered safe. However, even with this evidence, the EPA handed its
investigation over to the state of Wyoming, whose lead politicians have vocally
supported fracking. Moreover, this research will be funded by EnCana, the very
company whose drilling and fracking operations may have caused the groundwater
contamination in question.
“The EPA conducted
an investigation into the contamination of our aquifer, and discovered that
drilling was responsible,” said John Fenton a rancher from Pavillion. “But
rather than finish, they knuckled under to political pressure and turned the
investigation over to the very state and company that denied there was a
problem in the first place. President Obama needs to tell the EPA to reopen its
investigations.”
This action follows
the one million public comments delivered to Obama Administration against fracking on public lands as part
of a growing movement demanding that the Obama Administration do its job in
protecting Americans from dangers of fracking.
Organizations
involved in the EPA petition delivery include: Berks Gas Truth, Catskill
Citizens for Safe Energy, Catskill
Mountainkeeper, Center
for Biological Diversity, Delaware
Riverkeeper Network, Earthworks, Energy
Action Coalition, Environmental Action, Food and
Water Watch, Frack Action, Gasland, MoveOn.org, Public
Citizen and Western Organization of Resource Councils.
Visit
EcoWatch’s FRACKING page for more related news on this
topic.
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