WE LOVE NEW YORK – We will not be fracked!
Governor Cuomo has said that a decision on hydrofracking is imminent.
The New York Times reported that the governor will open the Southern Tier to fracking. The rest of the state will follow.
We can’t let this happen. We must once again impress on Governor Cuomo all of the risks he’s taking — ecological, economic and political. We must do this with greater energy and urgency than ever before.
Governor Cuomo promised that fracking wouldn’t endanger drinking water supplies or human health. He promised that decisions about fracking would be “guided by science” and based on “bona fide studies.”
But the governor has not kept his promises. He has ignored credible scientific studies. He’s taken the gas industry’s suspect data and used it to shape a policy that puts our water supplies at risk. He’s turned a deaf ear to the concerns of public health officials and medical professionals. The administration won’t even consider fracking’s impact on public health.
Governor Cuomo said he wants to “get the conversation back to facts and logic and science and information.” He clearly needs our help.
Here are the facts:
Fracking is an extreme, dangerous, unsustainable form of energy extraction, like coal from mountaintop removal, and oil from tar sands and deep water drilling. We don’t want it here in our beautiful New York.
We are winning on many fronts — locally, statewide, nationally and, increasingly, internationally. But we have to come together at this critical juncture to protect New York from the oil and gas corporations.
Here’s what we’re doing:
We will gather in both New York City and Albany on August 27th for a historic action against fracking in our state. Together, we will take a Pledge to Resist Fracking in New York, and commit ourselves to nonviolent action to defend our state. On August 25th and 26th, we will prepare with trainings in nonviolent direct action and strategy.
Governor Cuomo needs to know that we won’t be victims of an industrial experiment by a stroke of his pen. We will nonviolently mobilize to stop fracking in our state.
So sign up. Spread the word! Join us, and help make history. With one, enormous voice, we’re going to SHOUT:
Governor Cuomo, WE LOVE NY. DO YOU?
Signed,
Back to Democracy
Cancer Action NY
Capital District Against Fracking (CDAF)
Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Cayuga Anti-Fracking Alliance
Chenango Community Action for Renewable Energy (C-CARE)
Citizen Action
Coalition to Protect New York (CPNY)
Concerned Citizens of Ulysses
Concerned Worcester Citizens
Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition
Danby Action
Dryden Resource Awareness Coalition (DRAC)
Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project
Enfield Neighbors for Safe Air and Water (ENSAW)
Fleased
Food and Water Watch
Frack Action
Frack Free Genesee
Friends of Butternuts
Friends of Sustainable Sidney
Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County (GDACC)
Gas Free Seneca
Green Umbrella: NY Youth for a Just and Sustainable Future
Mothers United for Sustainable Technologies (MUST)
NY Grassroots Alliance to Save our State (NY GRASS)
People Advocating for the Use of Sustainable Energy (PAUSE)
People for a Healthy Environment, INC
Plymouth Friends of Clean Water
Residents Opposing Unsafe Shale-Gas Extraction (ROUSE)
Sane Energy Project
Shaleshock Action Alliance
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter
Sustainable Otsego
The Mothers Project
United For Action
Vestal Residents for Safe Energy (VeRSE)
Water Equality
Westford Neighbors
350.org
(In alphabetical order)
I’m against hydrofracking in New York State. I write an OpEd column for the Finger Lakes Times and just submitted my next piece with emphasis against hydrofracking.
What activities are planned for New York City on August 25th and 26th? Where in the city and at what time will the demonstration on the 27th be?
Thanks.
Ted
The NYC part of Don’t Frack New York has been cancelled due to a desire to focus attention solely on Cuomo in Albany.
We’ll be driving to Albany Monday. Where do we go and what is the schedule of events?
Can we get Elliot Spitzer back? Cuomo is a disaster waiting to happen. G-d help us because the corporate media is useless and the general populus doesn’t look a step ahead to see what’s about to go down. Think CSNY Hey, look at what is going down; our health, our wealth and our future. My parents grew up in the depression which was the result of the robber barron age. We have entered the new Gilded age of robber barrons. The Koch bros and the other fossil fuel freaks are well organized pschyopaths. They are not going to decide that their 250 million or 20 billion is ever enough as long as there is more misery to generate from the rest of us.