To: Governor J.B. Pritzker
Stop the Rush to Fracking in Illinois
To: Governor Pat Quinn, Speaker of the House Michael J. Madigan, and Senate President John J. Cullerton:
Stop the rush to fracking in Illinois. New York is continuing its moratorium on fracking until the health and environmental impacts are fully understood. Illinois citizens deserve the same. Support a moratorium NOW.
Stop the rush to fracking in Illinois. New York is continuing its moratorium on fracking until the health and environmental impacts are fully understood. Illinois citizens deserve the same. Support a moratorium NOW.
Why is this important?
The staff at the IL Dept. of Natural Resources have written their administrative rules for enforcing the scary Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act passed by the Illinois General Assembly last May. But the IDNR rules stray from the original law in many places, all in the same direction -- of favoring the oil and gas companies. The rules have reduced the fines for violating regulations from what they were in the law to just nominal amounts, some less than a speeding ticket in IL. Now companies can violate the rules and only have to pay a $50 fine for perjury, for example, whereas in the law, perjury is a class IV felony. With these massive reductions in sanctions for violations of the law, the "regulatory law" has been eviscerated. During the public "comment period" on these rules the people of IL submitted over 32,000 written comments, the vast majority being very critical of the rules. We need to stop the rush to fracking in Illinois. We need time to assess what the real costs will be to our health and our environment from this highly industrialized fracking process.
Call Gov. Pat Quinn (217) 782-0244 and Attorney General Lisa Madigan (217 782-1090 to urge them to Stop the Rush to Fracking.
Call Gov. Pat Quinn (217) 782-0244 and Attorney General Lisa Madigan (217 782-1090 to urge them to Stop the Rush to Fracking.