To: The Maine State House, The Maine State Senate, and Governor Janet Mills
Keep fracked gas and fracking infrastructure out of Maine!
Hydraulic fracturing is ruining watersheds and livelihoods everywhere it occurs, yet drilling companies keep the facts (and the victims) quiet. Instead of supporting our addiction to fossil fuels and expanding a notoriously corrupt industry lets find alternatives and keep the fracking industry out of Maine.
Why is this important?
Fracking requires tons of water to be mixed with toxic chemicals and pumped under ground at high pressure to crack the rock that naturally separates the gas from our water and air ways. The toxic waste water that doesn't remain in the ground must then be disposed of, and there is no good place to keep it. Farms and ranches in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been destroyed after fracking came to their land. Fracking is an energy intensive, invasive, unsafe way of harvesting fossil fuels that contribute to climate change. Frack wells release methane gas, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. We need better energy alternatives than this if we expect to leave a decent planet for our children. Keep fracked gas and fracking infrastructure out of Maine!