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FW: what the frack? important news

(please share widely!)


 Good news for the Colorado resistance to Fracking Gone Wild in
Colorado,
  thanks to the outstanding volunteer work of a few Aurorans...!!!

1. We have set up a web blog site:
go to:
http://www.frackingcolorado.wordpress.com.

(under construction but accessible, check it out!)

We will work on soliciting all areas of Colorado to post their own
page on it, link to YouTube videos of testimonies of what the frack is
going on in their area, post helpful tools and links and information
for organizers and news that can be productively shared (what works,
what is making headway, what urgently needs attention or action
items).   It is free!
The Colorado web blog site's e mail is : frackingcolorado@gmail.com

One section will focus on Fracking in Aurora info and its
corresponding e mail is :
 frackingaurora@gmail.com

If you want to set up a section for your area (e.g. Elbert County ) or
group, e mail us and let us know which area you are posting for,
so we can provide access , then you can set up your own section/page
with corresponding g mail account to receive regionally specific e
mails.

Until you get your area page set up, e mail frackingcolorado@gmail.com
to get us to post your area fracking  news, events, action items .
But try to set up your page soon, so that you can manage it
yourself.

2.  Two events organized:
A.
June 23, high noon, Denver,  demonstration in front of  the Colorado
Oil and Gas regulatory review meeting that is being conducted by a
national public-private-but-mostly-private-industry group
(S.T.R.O.N.G.E.R.):

The Colorado Grassroots "What the Frack?" Commission  is demonstrating
at the site of the STRONGER review, at the State Land Board office,
1127 Sherman St.,  Denver, on Thurs. JUNE 23rd,  noon to 1:00 pm,  to
raise public awareness of critical issues related to fracking (safe
drinking water and air quality, public health, environmental impact,
water security, and quality of life) that neither STRONGER nor our Oil
and Gas Commission nor our state legislators have adequately addressed
to date.

PLEASE COME JOIN US !!    STAND UP FOR COLORADO WATER AND AIR AND
QUALITY OF LIFE!
If you are a Coloradan who breathes air or drinks water and gives a
frack about quality of life in our state,
be there at high noon to stand with us!


 Find out more about what is being demonstrated against and for and
what the "Colorado Grassroots What the Frack? Commission" is, in the
attached WHAT THE FRACK?! announcement .
               PLEASE CIRCULATE THE ATTACHMENT WIDELY and ASAP  !
               We will need LOTS of people to show up at noon in order
to have an impact!


B.    Informational meeting on fracking in Aurora (re fracking at
former Lowry Bombing Range,
        by the   Aurora Reservoir):
What:  A free public meeting to inform area residents about the
possibility of oil fracking (horizontal hydraulic fracturing for oil)
at the
           former Lowry Bombing Range.  The Colorado State Land Board
is currently considering a proposal to lease 1600 to 2,600 acres of
land,
           for 19-98 oil fracking wells.  This is north of the Aurora
Reservoir and Quincy Rd,  above 4 aquifers, in an area designated for
           "low impact mixed development and resource sensitive"!
Fracking would super- industrialize this land and could substantially
impact
            our quality of life, air, land and water.
Where:  Smoky Hill Public Library, 5430 S. Biscay Cir., Aurora CO
303-542-7279
When:  Wednesday  July  6, 2011 at 6:30 pm

Why:   Providing information on how fracking could impact our
community and environment (super industrial traffic, noise, noxious
fumes, spills,
           etc).  Many places in Coloradao and the nation  are
experiencing adverse affects of fracking:  air, ground, and water
pollution, health
           problems, diminished quality of life, reduced property
values...
Who:  Sponsored by concerned Aurora citizens and Be the Change

Make sure to invite area neighbors and elected officials/legislators
to attend !


3. Petitions protesting the Lowry Bombing Site project    Any Colorado
resident can sign :  Please do!
         We are especially looking for signatures from people in
Arapahoe, and Elbert Counties and Denver.

    Two full text petitions:  attached   (please circulate and/or
print and collect hard copy signatures)
    A.   "Incompatible Usage": describes currently designated use of
the land, the fact that this resource sensitive usage determination
was
           arrived at by consensus of area stakeholders (City of
Aurora, Arapahoe County) in 2007 and should require reconvening of
stakeholders
           to consider such a radically incompatible usage (fracking);
describing the massive truck traffic and water usage that 20-98 wells
           would entail and  requesting that fracking not be done on
this land until the technology for
           doing so is less environmentally destructive and less
negatively intrusive on surrounding communities and land owners.

    B.  "Stipulated Terms": requests that if the State Land Board does
decide to allow fracking at Lowry, that specific terms be stipulated,
to
           protect the quality of life, public health and safety of
surrounding communities, to protect the quality of air, water, and
environment,
           and to protect the water security of Aurora, Arapahoe
County, and Denver (whose water reserves are the aquifers below the
land,
           the current Aurora Reservoir, and 4 already adjucted future
water reservoirs in the area).
                           (These terms may be useful for other
communities facing possible fracking in their area!)

 If you print and collect hard copy signatures, please contact
www.frackingaurora@gmail.com by July 27, to have them picked up for
presentation to the State Land Board (with copies to City of Aurora,
and Arapahoe County)  !


   C. And  Online! Fast and easy:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Lowry-Bombing-Range-Fracking-Aurora-Colorado
    Abbreviated version of "Incompatible Usage" petition.
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MANY THANKS TO THE HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS WHO WORKED ON ALL OF THIS!
Now let's use these tools to make positive change happen...