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Tell Pres. Obama to Stop Fracking with our Groundwater!!

by Food & Water Watch
We need President Obama to hear in our voices that we do not want our groundwater supply contaminated by corporations using hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") to extract natural gas. A process that leaves tapwater flammable cannot be claimed as clean energy! We need people to participate and call Pres. Obama to tell him to stop fracking with our groundwater!

See Your Alert Online:
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=10211


September 13, 2011

Today, thousands of people across the country are calling on President Obama to put
safe water over dirty energy and ban the dirty practice of fracking.

Join the National Day of Action to Ban Fracking - make a call today.

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7554

President Obama's energy policy relies on greater use of natural gas in quantities
that can only be obtained through fracking. His team has been listening to insiders
with ties to big oil and gas companies, but its time he heard from you that fracking
is not the answer. Make a call and join the movement to ban fracking!

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7554

Today is our National Day of Action to Ban Fracking. President Obama once said, "The
achievements of the past were possible because ordinary Americans demanded them."
With your help, and the help of more than 600 volunteers on the ground, we're
letting President Obama know that ordinary Americans want him to take a stand for
clean water.

President Obama has the power to guide our country's energy policy. He needs to make
a choice: will we depend on technologies that destroy our water and communities, or
will we move toward a new, clean energy future? Help him make the right choice by
calling the White House today!

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7554

Fracking or hydraulic fracturing involves the injection of huge volumes of toxic
fluids laced with carcinogens underground at high pressures to fracture shale rock
and release natural gas. Much of the wastewater is toxic - and even radioactive -
and remains below the surface where it can migrate into aquifers. Hydrofracking is
largely exempt from federal environmental laws and the entire process is exempt from
the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Take part in our National Day of Action to Ban Fracking by calling the White House
today!

Make a call for clean water today (888-498-2945):

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7554

Thanks for taking action,


Meredith Begin
Outreach Organizer
Food & Water Watch
cleanwater [at] fwwatch.org



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by Ashley Whitehead
Everyone I need your help! I have started a petition through the White House website to BAN HYDRAULIC FRACTURING OF THE MARCELLUS SHALE! I need 25,000 signatures within 30 days in order for the petition to be reviewed by the Obama Administration. If we reach this goal the Obama Administration will submit an official response and send it to the appropriate officials in order to take action. We have to stand together to fight this! Please take five minutes of your time to sign this petition and make a difference in our present and future!
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