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If your water comes from these watersheds: (Original Post) TalkingDog May 2014 OP
KICK!!!!!! BlancheSplanchnik May 2014 #1
k&r nt antigop May 2014 #2
Hey DU - where the F are U? riverbendviewgal May 2014 #3
Let's hope it's because... MrMickeysMom May 2014 #8
I'll K&R this arikara May 2014 #4
Kick and rec. Needs to be visible. riqster May 2014 #5
Most of my family in north Georgia get their water from the Chattahoochee & Lake Lanier Glorfindel May 2014 #6
K & R They_Live May 2014 #7
..affect everyone everywhere! bvar22 May 2014 #9
Kicking. nt littlemissmartypants May 2014 #10
the cat is out of the bag regarding the dangers of fracking. riverbendviewgal May 2014 #11
kickers!... n/t annabanana May 2014 #12
Thats all the west end of the state Lee-Lee May 2014 #13

riverbendviewgal

(4,314 posts)
3. Hey DU - where the F are U?
Tue May 27, 2014, 11:06 AM
May 2014

Water is precious, priceless and should not be a commodity. It should be treated with care and love and not poisoned.

Now where is DU on this? sure is so quiet to not have any comments. So so Sad.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
8. Let's hope it's because...
Tue May 27, 2014, 12:30 PM
May 2014

We (here in PA) are caught up in the fight against fracking. Most people living in my part of Allegheny county (SW PA) don't understand that Bear Run (Westmoreland county) will have fracking around it soon, as wells develop and are pushed to require less stringency by the very agency that is supposed to protect it.

arikara

(5,562 posts)
4. I'll K&R this
Tue May 27, 2014, 11:14 AM
May 2014

The natives stopped fracking in their territory in northern BC headwaters where it was being proposed quite a few years ago, even before the dangers of this really entered our collective provincial consciousness. Now the BC gov't is basing the entire prosperity of the province on fracking insanity.

Its a big fight for everyone. Good luck, North Carolina, it can be stopped.

Glorfindel

(9,911 posts)
6. Most of my family in north Georgia get their water from the Chattahoochee & Lake Lanier
Tue May 27, 2014, 11:41 AM
May 2014

My relatives around Chattanooga get their water from the Tennessee. This could affect the water supplies of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana as well as North Carolina. Where I grew up in northwest Georgia is in a different watershed. This is scary stuff!

They_Live

(3,298 posts)
7. K & R
Tue May 27, 2014, 12:10 PM
May 2014

This will eventually affect everyone everywhere. Wake Up! Call your Congress critters. Organize against fracking.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
9. ..affect everyone everywhere!
Tue May 27, 2014, 01:17 PM
May 2014

YES.
This is NOT a local issue.

The Oil Corps WILL keep fracking,
and out current "politicians" will keep letting them frac
until WE stop them.

Solidarity!

riverbendviewgal

(4,314 posts)
11. the cat is out of the bag regarding the dangers of fracking.
Tue May 27, 2014, 03:29 PM
May 2014
http://www.opednews.com/articles/3/New-Environmentalists-Taki-by-Kevin-Zeese-and-Ma-Activism-Environmental_Climate_Climate-Change_Global-Warming-140526-72.html

And, many of these activists are finding courage they did not know they had. Recently Jenny Lysak interrupted a Democratic Gubernatorial debate in Pennsylvania -- a state that has sold out to fracking interests. Jenny says "I'm not particularly brave; I just feel that there is nothing anyone could do to me worse than what they are doing to our planet and to the families who can no longer live in their homes." She rushed the stage of the debate and held up a "List of the Harmed," a list of 1,700 families impacted by fracking. The list is now over 6,000.

There are a growing number of Jenny Lysak's. People are standing up as they see their neighborhoods, communities and planet ruined by the voracious appetite of extreme profit from energy extraction at a time when we should be creating a carbon-free/nuclear-free energy environment. People are learning they have more power than they realize and are being inspired to use it.
 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
13. Thats all the west end of the state
Wed May 28, 2014, 08:08 PM
May 2014

When I read up on this a while ago they were saying middle of the state- WNC now too???!!!!??

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