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Hundreds Show Up To Oppose Fracking & Infrastructure

February 23, 2017 Alexandra Rosenmann, www.alternet.org , ,
By Alexandra Rosenmann for AlterNet - The anti-Trump resistance isn't just about marching on Capitol Hill; it's about organizing and showing up for your community, every day. "If you want to figure out what democracy is, if you want to figure out what America, it's this in a room like this," documentary filmmaker Josh Fox explained from the Delaware River Basin Commission Public Hearing in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. "Two hundred and fifty people at a hearing in the middle of the day, took off from work, and they decided that [they're] going to stand up and fight against the oil industry." Governors from four states, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, head the Delaware River Basin Commission. Over 15 million people depend on the agency's regulation of their water supply. The meeting was held in response to President Trump's gutting of environmental regulations that would expose regions such as northeastern Pennsylvania to drilling and fracking.

Study: Fracking In The Delaware River Basin Would Threaten Health Of 45,000

August 13, 2015 Natasha Geiling, www.thinkprogress.org , , , ,
By Natasha Geiling in Think Progress - Encompassing the longest free-flowing river in the eastern United States, the Delaware River Basin also happens to sit partially on top of the Marcellus Shale, the second largest gas field in the world. To date, a moratorium put in place by the Delaware River Basin Commission has kept gas companies out of the Delaware River Basin — but environmental groups worry that without a permanent ban, the basin could be opened to fracking at a moment’s notice. Now, a new study seeks, for the first time, to quantify the environmental impact of opening the Delaware River Basin to fracking — and what natural gas extraction could mean for the communities that call the region home. The Delaware River, which begins its flow from springs tucked away in New York’s Catskill Mountains, winds for nearly 400 miles before emptying into the Delaware Bay and, eventually, the Atlantic Ocean.