At the Earth Day celebration in Jim Thorpe the environmental group Save Carbon County managed to get over 300 signatures on a petition to the Delaware River Basin Commission asking them to ban the dumping of fracking water into the Delaware watershed. The Commission has already banned fracking within the watershed, but has discussed allowing toxic wastewater from fracking operations to be discharged into the watershed.
The Delaware watershed covers portions of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, and the River Basin Commission is tasked with ensuring its good health. Why it would even consider allowing polluted fracking waste to be dumped anywhere in that watershed is incomprehensible.
We had no trouble getting people to sign once we explained the issue.
Wish I could have signed it. Our water is too important.
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