Stop the well and stop fracking now. Fracking will endanger the already-stressed Big Cypress Watershed, home to panthers and other endangered species. But know this: even Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson complained when fracking started near his home in Texas.
Why is this important?
I live minutes away from the draft-permitted drilling site. Fracking will use carcinogenic products benzene and methane to move the water into the earth and deliver oil and gas. The bond posted by the drilling company is inadequate in case of emergencies, and the safety details are nonexistent per a report delivered here last week March 11. Dick Armey (Former House Majority Leader and former Chairman of FreedomWorks) and Rex Tillerson (CEO of Exxon) are plaintiffs in Texas about the same sort of water-well and potential drilling near their homes that will "decrease property values, increase noise and air pollution from fracking water trucks, disturb personal health, safety [wording from the lawsuit]" and more. Our water levels are deteriorating and this new site will lead to further depletion plus storage of millions of barrels of contaminated water with no science to clean it.
