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Activists head to Dimock for fracking protests
As residents in heavily fracked Dimock, Pa., demand potable water, more shale gas drilling sites are in play.
Activists head to Dimock for fracking protests
While Occupy Philly participants head to Washington, D.C., for rallies on the mall, anti-fracking and environmental advocates are going instead to Dimock, Pa., today for a day of protests, rallies and the delivery of fresh water to residents who say their drinking water was contaminated by shale gas wells."Former Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger promised fresh clean water piped into replace their water, and that hasn't happened for these people with contaminated water — and they just had their water buffalo removed," says Iris Marie Bloom, of Protecting Our Waters.
The town's government has said it will not accept water deliveries, citing liabilities and safety concerns in connection with the delivery of the water from Binghamton, N.Y., as well as studies that show the drinking water is in fact safe. However, individual residents are still expected to be accepting water. There will also be "toxic tours" of Dimock running today. Plus, celebrity and Water Defense founder Mark Ruffalo and Josh Fox, director of Gasland, will be on hand for a 2:30 press conference at the home of residents whose water has been tainted.
This evening, protesters will be attending a hearing for a new compressor station in Montrose, Pa., since fracking protesters now feel their best tactic is, as Bloom says, "to fight compressor stations one by one, since they're not regulatied ast hey should be."
Since only a small area of the Delaware River valley can be fracked. Philly has minimum benefit. All PA fraking tax goes to the communities fracked not down river. Sending bottled water around uses fuel.— RichardKanePA
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