Brooklynites: Don't Frack Our Beer!

Mother Jones:

Does worrying about fracking make you thirst for a drink? Before you raise that pint of ale to your lips, consider the source.

The brewmeister of Brooklyn Brewery says toxic fracking chemicals like methanol, benzene and ethylene glycol (found in anti-freeze) could contaminate his beer by leaking into New York's water supply. Unlike neighboring Pennsylvania, New York state has promised to ban high-volume fracking from the city's watershed. But environmentalists say the draft fracking regulations are weak and leave the largest unfiltered water supply in the US—not to mention the beer that is made from it—vulnerable.

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Comments

[EANY]

01:51 PM on 05/19/2012

Save Our Beer is a series of events sponsored by Environmental Advocates of New York and the New York Water Rangers. The Brooklyn Brewery event was a great success, and we're coming to Troy and Kingston next! Please join us to Save Our Beer at Brown's Brewing Co. on May 23: http://www.facebook.com/events/193763350744310/

[Genders]

11:17 PM on 05/17/2012

Clean water is as importaqnt as energy. Fracking destroy our water.

[WishfulThinkingRulesAll]

02:26 PM on 05/17/2012

Oh noes!