Join the Kill the Drill Campaign
At a press conference on October 1, 2009 I was joined by a coalition of elected officials and advocates, to announce the launch of Kill the Drill, a campaign to voice opposition to any hydraulic fracturing in the city's upstate watershed, which supplies 90 percent of New York City's drinking water. That day, I asked for Governor David Paterson to hold a public hearing in NYC, which was later scheduled for November 10th at 6:30pm at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers Street. Please join us at a rally and press conference in front of the school at 5:00pm. For more info, please visit the campaign page at: www.mbpo.org/killthedrill and watch the campaign video below.
Scott Stringer: State Must End Threat to NYC's Drinking Water
New York State regulators trail everybody else in protecting New York City's drinking water from natural gas drilling, despite the fact that they alone have the authority to do so.
Robert Glennon: No Impact Week: The Enigma of the Water Closet
The water delivered to our homes is drinking-quality water but we use only ten percent of it for drinking and cooking. We use about one-third outdoors to water lawns. Of the water we use indoors, a third is flushed away.
At the end of the 31st annual Hispanic Heritage month, Latinos in the US are still waiting to celebrate a crucial victory --getting rid of the toxic water that poisons so many of our communities.
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challenge new york state to prove that hydraulic fracturing is safe--millions of residents in drilling zones in the west, south, and now pennsylvania found it isn't--the hard way.
go to nyh2o.org to join other new yorkers against this environmentally-devastating "technology".
You have been handed the greatest sound bite in history, use it:
Frack Fracking!
How nice for you, that they won't drill in the NYC watershed. How about the rest of us people in the Catskills? So it's okay if our water is poisoned? Thanks. By the by, a little lesson in ecology: if you poison every little stream that feeds the rivers that feed either the NYC watershed or the Chesapeake Bay, you poison those waterways too.
I agree 100%. We need to ban hydraulic fracturing wherever it adversely effects water quality, air quality or public health. That means rolling back this dangerous and highly polluting procedure nationwide. This PSA however, is specifically designed to create awareness in New York City, where there is very little consciousness of the issue, unlike upstate and in PA.
For other videos and to connect with activists across the country working against Hydraulic Fracturing, please go to www.waterunderattack.com or damascuscitizens.org
We all need to stick together to ban hydraulic fracturing, reinstate the safe drinking water act and move towards renewable and sustainable energy and away from dirty fossil fuels.
Thanks, Josh
I feel that when NYC stands up for itself, then it is a good thing. It reminds upstate to stand up for itself, and, it gives upstate more leverage than it would have on its own. We can make a case for unequal protection. The folks in NYC are really on our side.
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