Document Pre-Pipeline Stream Conditions in The Delaware River
DECEMBER 22-23, 2012
The Delaware Riverkeeper Network needs your help:
“We have 19 days to stop this fracked gas pipeline from cutting through healthy pristine habitat and rural communities (more…)
[Updated: December 13, 2012]
Science Has No Agenda, Right?
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) is the only governing body standing between fracking pollution and the fresh drinking water for 15.6 million people living in the Mid-Atlantic megapolis – a full 5% of the US population. So what is the DRBC doing to protect this precious, highly productive watershed from volatile shale gas pipelines and extreme fossil fuel extraction? Lately, not much.
The DRBC is an interstate commission, which is not a common thing. It’s comprised of the governors of PA, NY, NJ and DE (or their representatives), plus a representative of the Federal Government from The Army Corps of Engineers. It was created because the citizens in these states deemed the protection of their shared freshwater resources important enough to warrant utmost oversight and protection. That was 1961.
Today, DRBC commissioners act like children with mouths full of candy. It’s difficult to get a straight answer out of them, even at their own public meetings. (more…)
Marcellus Gas Pipeline To Cut Across Wyeth Country
Think Marcellus Shale Gas pollution won’t come to Southeastern PA? Think again.
UPDATE: “State Extends Comment Period for Gas Pipeline Plan” by Sara Mosqueda-Fernandez in The Daily Local News, June 3, 2012 http://www.dailylocal.com/article/20120603/NEWS01/120609891/-1/news/state-extends-comment-period-for-gas-pipeline-plan
Keep Tap Water Safe 