Action | Expanding disclosure of ingredients used in well stimulation & completion & reviewing best practices |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 12/4/2015 |
Disclosure of toxic chemicals used in fracking is simply not enough. The companies who want to frack in the Taylorsville Basin and anywhere else in Virginia are asking our citizens and communities to be a sacrifice zone for the benefit of shareholders. All fossil fuel must stay in the ground if we are going to avoid catastrophic climate change. Fracking was conceived and born in the dark back rooms of Halliburton's Dick Cheney. The damage done by Fracking across our country is really unfathomable, but let me name a few consequences. Contaminated ground water, earthquakes, methane release in the atmosphere, increased incidence of cancer and birth defects, increased accidents on rural roads, devastated rural landscapes marred by industrialization. You should be drafting regulations to ban Fracking. That is the only moral option.