Stop Fracking the Chattanooga Shale Field

Stop Fracking The Chattanooga Shale Field

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We, together, stand to stop fracking the Chattanooga Shale Field. Hydraulic Fracturing [fracking] is an environmentally devastating process that can contaminate ground water, drinking wells, and municipal water supplies. Fracking in other states has proven to be disastrous with waste water spills, methane leaks, contaminated drinking water, and many other health and environmental concerns. The natural gas industry is under-regulated, careless, and out only for profit, at the expense of our communities. Fracking benefits only a few and harms many. The industry regularly back-doors regulation, and similar strategy is taking place in Tennessee. The state was streamlining regulatory agencies in the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation by merging the oil and gas board with the water quality board. The following is from the Chattanooga Times Free Press: "Anne Davis and Gwen Parker, attorneys with the Southern Environmental Law Center, are fighting Tennessee's new gas and drilling rules -- which came about just as the state was streamlining regulatory agencies in the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and merging the oil and gas board with the water quality board. "On Sept. 20, the oil and gas board approved rules and then ceased existence and was merged with the water board as of Oct. 1, so it's now the water and oil and gas board," Davis said." We demand tighter regulation. We demand laws the protect the citizens and state. We demand an end to this obvious cronyism. Stop Fracking in the Chattanooga Shale Field!

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