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Big news: we just learned that in 5 days there will be a vote to help establish a ban on fracking in the Delaware River watershed for good. ¹

With 289 confirmed cases of people’s drinking water wells contaminated by fracking in Pennsylvania, we can’t risk the drinking water for the 15 million people who rely on the Delaware River. ²

Tell Governor Wolf: Vote to keep fracking permanently out of the Delaware River Basin.

The frackers are already railing against news of the vote by spreading misinformation and lobbying the Governor. That’s why he needs to hear from thousands of Pennsylvanians in the next few days to make sure this passes.

Eight years ago we helped flood the governor’s office with public comments in support of the first moratorium on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Since then, it’s become only more clear, as fracking companies in PA have violated environmental and public health protections over 4,000 times in other parts of the Commonwealth.³

And so for eight years, we’ve kept our drinking water safe.

This new policy would permanently commit environmental regulators to keep fracking away from the Delaware River, giving all of us peace of mind that our water will always be safe from fracking’s cocktail of toxic chemicals. Add your name for a ban on fracking near the Delaware now.

You can be sure the fracking industry will fight this effort over the next few days, but with your support we can protect the Delaware.

Sincerely,

David Masur
PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center

P.S. Help us build even more support for protecting the Delaware by forwarding this to your friends and family!.

1. “AP Source: Permanent Delaware River drilling ban in the works,” Associate Press, September 7, 2017.
2. “Water Supply Determination Letters,” Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, accessed September 7, 2017.
2. Alana Miller and Adam Garber, “Fracking Failures 2017: Oil and Gas Industry Environmental Violations in Pennsylvania,” PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, Spring 2017.