🚀 go-pugleaf

URGENT Petition: Stop SB 12 088 from greenlighting heavy
industrialization fracking of CO communities!
Date: Feb 7, 2012 10:58 PM
                  YOUR HELP URGENTLY NEEDED:

Colorado Senate Bill SB 12-088 would  reverse longstanding Colorado
law that recognizes a local role in determining oil and gas operations
impact and would  extinguish  local authority that has been upheld
over many years in case law.  It would preempt the rightful powers of
local government to determine the character, quality of life, value,
reputation, and even health and safety  of their communities.  It
would require local governments (towns, cities, counties)  and local
residents to sacrifice quality of life, property values, and health
and safety, at their own expense, just so that the oil and gas
industry can explore and extract oil and gas and take profits
therefrom,  wherever they wish in  Colorado (i.e., in any suburb,
city, tourist town, organic farmland, etc) !

If each of us doesn't do all we can, to quickly promote awareness of
the immense scope of permanent harm that this Colorado bill will
allow,  across Colorado, it will pass, and will change Colorado
forever.   We need tens of thousands of Coloradans to sign on to this
petition  !!!

The gas and oil industry is leaning hard on our legislators to pass
this bill;  it will take the collective weight of all of us to lean
back and get our legislators to reject it !   The industry mantra is
that oil and gas development/fracking all over Colorado, wherever they
wish, will bring in lots of money and lots of jobs to local
governments.   But they don't acknowledge the very real costs to
communities, individual property owners and residents, the
environment, local businesses, Colorado water security, and to the
reputation and quality of life and environment statewide in Colorado -
costs that all of us will bear, and the next generations too!

They haven't provided needed data on the long term impact of their
epic scale water use (5-7 millions of gallons per frack/each well can
be fracked up to 20 times). The water they use is "destroyed" for
further use, since it becomes super saline and contains highly toxic
chemicals and unearthed toxic materials (such as radioactive
materials).  At least 40% of the water they use will remain in each
well forever.  The remaining amount, that isn't evaporated (toxic
chemicals and all!) into our air, is permanently put in deep disposal
wells  (associated with earthquake activity), removed from  our
hydrologic cycle.  What does it mean for a semi arid state to have
such large volumes of water destroyed for further use?  To have such
large volumes of water permanently removed from our  hydrologic cycle,
in our state which is projected to be facing several decades of
increasing water scarcity?

Industry claims that fracking has been done for 50 years, but that is
not the case for horizontal fracking,  which  has only been used for
7-10 years and has much bigger impacts on air, water, quality of life,
etc.   The "safety"  of fracking is an unsubstantiated claim .   Like
commercials for instant weight loss, erasing age, etc.  it is just "a
claim", without objective, independent scientific proof. Actually, the
oil and gas industry has prevented / precluded  independent objective
scientific safety studies of their toxic emissions on air quality and
of their  toxic chemical additives to water, through their exemptions
to federal health and safety laws (Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water
Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA Superfund Site Act, Toxics Act,
Community Right to Know Act, etc) !

We need to ask our legislators, NOW,   how many dollars, how many jobs
are good enough reason to :
Destroy large volumes of  Colorado water reserves forever?
(permanently toxic, much of it removed forever from the hydrologic
cycle)
Destroy quality of life forever in communities, with heavy
industrialization?
Threaten good health (current fracking practices found to be
associated with significant respiratory, neurological, endocrine,
dermatological conditions, some of which are permanent, in many areas
of the nation and in Colorado) and public safety? (Colorado record of
high spill/accident rate, that includes contamination of ground and
surface water, fires, explosions, blowouts, leakages of toxic
chemicals)
Decrease property values - the primary asset of most Coloradans and
the bread and butter of  real estate agents and developers?
   (industry acknowledges 20% drop as usual and expected)
Threaten tourism, outdoor sports centered businesses, and recreation
for Coloradans (outdoor sports, fishing, hunting, farming), as well as
the "Colorado brand" of healthy living and magnificent, protected
natural environment ?

TELL YOUR LEGISLATOR WHAT YOU THINK !  Please consider signing the
petition at the link and getting all your friends and colleagues to do
the same, today !    And call/ email your Colorado legislators too !
The character of each of our communities and all of Colorado depends
on each of us today....

http://www.change.org/petitions/colorado-state-senate-stop-the-preemption-of-local-control-over-oil-and-gas?share_id=qgrkJrBjud&