Contaminated water, cancer, explosions - fracking can, and has, created these dangerous and costly disasters. It is high time we put our resources into renewable energy sources - sources that will not destory our planet and threaten life.

Fracking—injecting massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals into the ground to reach otherwise inaccessible oil and gas—is an extreme process, with catastrophic results. Fracking threatens our water, our air, our farms, and our health—and uses up too much of our already limited water supply.

Fracking chemicals are secret thanks to Dick Cheney and his cohorts. These toxins will be in our ground water for generations.

An oil industry insider recently told Politico that if California—known as a progressive and Democratic state—moves forward with fracking, "it will be a lot harder to paint the practice as an extreme process that risks the health and safety of individuals." Fracking—injecting massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals into the ground to reach otherwise inaccessible oil and gas—is an extreme process, with catastrophic results. Fracking threatens our water, our air, our farms, and our health—and contributes to global warming.

Don't allow our state government to approve fracking in Illnois.

Fracking is unsafe environmentily and unhealthy for people being exposed to poisonous substances that Fracking uses.

We need to have a safe place to live in California.

States which have allowed energy companies to begin the destructive process of drilling and fracking are discovering the disastrous consequences for groundwater resources. Once the damage is done, it becomes nearly impossible to measure, let alone correct. We the citizens of Illinois must not let this happen here.

Fracking is too dangerous and destructive to be conducted safely. Fracking cannot be safely regulated. Illinois must ban fracking now.

I am a Board Trustee in Alto Pass, Union Co. IL. Our town Board has banned Fracking within our City limits, however many people do not know that simply by owning their home, farm, winery, or guest lodging that they do not own the mineral rights under their property. Tourism is a large part of our counties economy and if Fracking moved in and undermined our local bans it could destroy a huge part of our income. As a village we studied the pros and cons of Fracking and with a Geologist we determined it was not something we want in, near, or around our village. Fracking goes horizontally as well as vertically. We do not trust the integrity of the big Energy Companies to care about our bans and geology knows no town, county or state lines. We want it banned in Southern Illinois altogether.

Illinois still has the chance to keep fracking out of our state, as Vermont and over 250 U.S. communities have done. We need brave legislators who will sponsor a bill to ban fracking in Illinois. We need this law to protect our environment and our health. We need this bill because promises of economic benefits from fracking just don't materialize as promised and other states are being left to cope with fracking's mess.

fracking pollutes drinking water, destroys farmland, and causes climate change. State legislators could decide this month whether to pave the way for fracking in Southern Illinois—a process by which massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals are injected into the ground to reach previously inaccessible oil and gas. Standing up to the oil and gas industries isn't easy, State representatives are unlikely to do it unless they hear from constituents. Please sign this petition to have your voice heard by our representatives.