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[Linda Ray <lindaray@att.net>]

Subject: Fw: Call the White House Today to Ban Fracking
Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 10:52 AM


  



Hi All,

I received this message today. Please make a call -- it's very quick -- to 
protect our water from the poisonous effects of fracking.

Ellen

See Your Alert Online

It's Time To Ban Fracking and It's Time to Call the Whitehouse

Join us on our National Call-in Day tomorrow and invite your friends 

We are all reasons to ban fracking!

Join the National Call-in Day 
Tuesday, September 13th! 
Call 888-498-2945 and ask your friends to do the same.

September 13, 2011

Today we're calling on the Obama Administration to protect our communities 
and our water from fracking. Join us! Spread the word and make a call 
tomorrow.

President Obama has the power to guide our country's energy policy. He needs 
to make a choice: will we depend on technologies that destroy our water and 
communities, or will we move toward a new, clean energy future?

Mark your calendar: Call the White House today and ask President Obama to 
move in the right direction by banning fracking.

Communities across the country are racing to protect their water from the 
dangerous and unnecessary practice of fracking. From Upstate New York, to the 
shores of Lake Michigan to Coastal California and many places in between, 
residents are standing up and saying "Ban Fracking Now."

We're letting the President know that it's time for him to lead with our 
National Day of Action this Tuesday, September 13th. With your help, and the 
help of more than 600 volunteers on the ground, we'll be able to keep the 
White House phone lines busy all day.

Join us by calling on President Obama at 888-498-2945 today and asking him to 
ban fracking.

Fracking or hydraulic fracturing involves pumping huge volumes of toxic 
fluids ****laced with carcinogens**** underground at high pressures to 
fracture shale rock and release natural gas. During the process, some of the 
water used returns as toxic—even radioactive—wastewater. Even more disturbing 
is that the bulk of the toxic fracking fluid stays underground indefinitely. 
So, decades after oil and gas companies have made their profits and moved on, 
billions of gallons of toxic fracking fluid will be left behind, threatening 
to contaminate vital groundwater resources for generations. Unfortunately 
this entire process is exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Plan to make a call today and ask your friends to do the same:
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/salsa/web/tellafriend/public/?tell_a_friend_KEY=9554

Thanks for taking action,

Katy Kiefer
Outreach Organizer
Food & Water Watch
cleanwater(at)fwwatch(dot)org

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