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A lot of us wonder what we can do besides sign some petitions, write some letters, etc (Although all of those things are good and necessary.)

One thing we can do is let our friends know about the predicament the gas industry and it’s cronies are putting us in, and how that predicament will soon be coming to a town near them.

A good way is to cut and paste the following message into an e-mail and send it to your intelligent out-of-state friends and family:

Dear Friends and Family,

The legislation below has critical implications for the gas drilling safety situation that I have spoken with you about. As this will be coming before the U.S. Senate, and because you live in a state other than NY, we desperately need your help in bringing this to the national level.

I would immensely appreciate it if you would take a moment to phone the offices of the Senators from your state and simply say: I am calling to strongly urge you to support the Provision that has passed the House, requiring the EPA to conduct new studies on the risks hydraulic fracturing poses to drinking water supplies.

There is growing evidence that the toxic chemicals that are used in this process, are causing cancer, neurological, endocrine disorders to mention just a few of those documented. Thank you.”

Then please forward this to everyone in your mailing lists. This is a national problem, as it already affects the states of WV, PA, CO, TX, WY where drilling has already been done.

But it affects every state, because research shows that the wind can blow these toxic chemicals two hundred miles from a site. That means these toxins may be coming your way too.

In addition, each well uses one to four million gallons of our water. The gas companies take it out from under us as if it is theirs. The world is in a critical state of water shortage.

Other countries are using their investments in renewable, sustainable energy. At this time there is actually an oversupply of natural gas, and we are subsidizing the gas industry when we could be giving that money to moving forward in forms of energy that do not destroy our health, water supply and earth.

I’ll be working on a version of this for your New York State friends, complete with all the contact info for our state’s legislators.

You may have noticed that there is a lot more momentum on this issue, and one gas company has even admitted that hydrofracturing is so unsafe that they will not risk the watershed  that supplies New York City by drilling in it. I don’t know why anyone would think any area is “more expendable” than NYC, but apparently the gas companies and some landowners do.

Let’s keep the momentum going, so we can save the rest of the state, and the other states from this terrible mistake.

P.S. Thanks to Karen for creating and forwarding that letter.