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.

Oil Fracking has proven to be unsafe. It leaks deadly chemicals into the water table which our children drink and get very sick from. Rather than oil spills in lakes, there are unseen deadly chemical spills in ground water that can kill our children. We must protect the lives of our children by banning fracking.

Every resident of Illinois is at risk from the environmental devastation caused by fracking. This includes polluted drinking water and air, and the destruction of farmland throughout the state. Once fracking begins, the damage cannot be undone, so we must ban fracking now before it is too late.

Let's face it. Injecting massive amounts of chemical into the earth's sediments is dangerous. It threatens our water supply and our underground aquifers and it threatens our health and our safety. We have no idea what chemical mix goes into our water or what long-term effect it will have on our health. Until we know, let's ban fracking in California

Don't potentially poison the water and air anymore than necessary in Cali. I won't know if it has affected me until I'm already dead.

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 Frack California. You can publicly support a fracking ban in California and we want you to do that!

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.

Please help stop the movement toward "Fracking" in Illinois. Fracking poses many risks to our water and food supply.

Hydrolic Fraction also known as fracking, which is 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. I'm petitioning to stop this in California.

Although I have not personally been subjected to the ill effects of fracking, I am concerned about the environment, the quality of our water supply and especially the effect on climate change. Fracking is a dangerous procedure, one that each and every individual should be concerned about.

I know from watching interviews with a number of people in other states how horribly damaging fracking is to the environment and the health of both people and animals. I have seen sick livestock, people with various mystery illnesses and cancers, and tap water that can be lit on fire! This proposed area in Illinois is right at my back door, and I am terrified that this may go forward.