To: Cedric Richmond, The Louisiana State House, The Louisiana State Senate, Governor John Bel Edwards, and Rep. Cedric Richmond (LA-2)
Louisiana: Stop Fracking Up the Gulf
Please eliminate the excessive amount of drilling locations along the Gulf and Mississippi River; it will only be a detriment later on.
A Map Detailing the Locations of Oil and Natural Gas Fracking Health and Safety Issues: http://www.drillingmaps.com/fracking.html#.UpvAfmRDtGQ
^^^ notice the lack of Yellow Dots (signifies locations that support Clean Energy)
A Map Detailing the Locations of Oil and Natural Gas Fracking Health and Safety Issues: http://www.drillingmaps.com/fracking.html#.UpvAfmRDtGQ
^^^ notice the lack of Yellow Dots (signifies locations that support Clean Energy)
Why is this important?
Fracking is an environmental nightmare. With all of the pollution and water contamination following the oil spills in the Gulf and other bodies of water surrounding New Orleans, it is nonsensical for the government to support such drastic and pernicious drilling operations.
It has been proven that fracking most often leads to water contamination from fracking fluids migrating into the ground water and into water reservoirs. In an area so dependent on its water for things like food, transportation, business, and shipping, it is SHOCKING that the government would allow drilling to jeopardize our sensitive ecosystem.
My New Orleans water already smells like chlorine, there's brain-eating Naegleria fowleri amoebas in other Parishes' water, and now you want to add fracking to the equation? The iconic and ironic phrase "what could go wrong?" comes to mind.....
It has been proven that fracking most often leads to water contamination from fracking fluids migrating into the ground water and into water reservoirs. In an area so dependent on its water for things like food, transportation, business, and shipping, it is SHOCKING that the government would allow drilling to jeopardize our sensitive ecosystem.
My New Orleans water already smells like chlorine, there's brain-eating Naegleria fowleri amoebas in other Parishes' water, and now you want to add fracking to the equation? The iconic and ironic phrase "what could go wrong?" comes to mind.....