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October 21, 2011 is Don’t Drill the Delaware Day!

DRBC may lift the current moratorium on gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin – join us to insist on No Fracking!

CALL to ACTION October 21, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Patriots Theater at the War Memorial
1 Memorial Drive Trenton, N.J. 

Fracking signs - demonstration 

For over three years, environmental groups have been fighting to protect the Delaware River Watershed from pollution from toxic gas drilling; 69,800 people filed comments with the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) during the comment period on their draft natural gas development regulations, breaking all past records of public interest. In August, Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit along with other environmental groups seeking to stop the DRBC from moving ahead with these inadequate regulations without completing environmental studies required by federal law.

But now the DRBC has scheduled a special meeting from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm on October 21, 2011 at the War Memorial in Trenton, NJ to “consider adoption of the regulations”, which would lift the current moratorium on gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin.  This would allow fracking to begin in areas of the Basin where the state has given the go ahead (Pennsylvania currently allows fracking; New York will not allow fracking at least until the completion of its fracking environmental impact statement).  The DRBC gas drilling regulations would pose a major threat to the New York City Watershed, as the Basin area currently provides 50 percent of the clean, unfiltered drinking water that nine million New Yorkers depend on daily. 

If you want to make a statement about gas drilling and fracking in the Delaware River Watershed, come stand with us on October 21 in Trenton. This is our chance to stand together and insist on protecting our water!

More information on how to get to this hearing and other logistics will be posted on our website in October.  In the meantime, please mark your calendars and plan to make your voices heard on October 21!

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