Convince President Obama and Secretary of Department of Energy, to rescind authorization to frack on federal land for natural gas.
Convincing both Congressman Mike Quigley and Senator Dick Durbin to support efforts to rescind the existing authorization to frack for natural gas on federal land.
Why is this important?
Hydraulic fracking has terrible environmental consequences: depletion of fresh water, adverse effect on agriculture, inducing silicosis in workers involved in fracking process, releasing toxic substances into the air, admixture of radioactive cancer inducing radon with the extracted natural gas, and also inducing earthquakes.
Even more seriously, fracking releases into the atmosphere green house gas methane (major component of natural gas) which is 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period in destabilizing the climate resiliency.
Ensure no public funds are used to finance any further fracking for natural gas on federal lands.
