New York’s drinking water is under threat from dirty drilling made possible by “hydraulic fracturing” — but it doesn’t have to be.
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We can take a drilling “time-out” — to learn the hard-won lessons of drilling-polluted communities in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and everywhere drillers pushed ahead without adequate regulation and enforcement.
See also: I Love My NY Water 6 Jun 2011. YouTube.
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Save Our Beer from Fracking!
The New York Water Rangers and our partners are working to protect our communities from fracking and to keep toxic fracking chemicals out of the water that makes our award-winning beer.
You can help. Join us at an event near you to learn how you can get involved!
See also: Alli. Don’t Frack With My Beer. 9 May 2012. 26 Dishes.
Save Our Beer is a series of educational events across the state of New York aimed at raising awareness about industrial gas drilling called “fracking.” Fracking requires millions of gallons of water, sand, and toxic chemicals that are pumped deep underground. The gas industry wants to frack thousands of wells across the state, which would endanger the health and safety of our water (and our beer!) and forever alter our communities.
New York Water Rangers partners are working to protect our communities from fracking and to keep toxic fracking chemicals out of the water that makes our beer.Since April 2012, we’ve held Save Our Beer events at Brooklyn Brewery in Brooklyn, NY; Brown’s Brewing in Troy, NY; Keegan Ales in Kingston, NY; Mr. Goodbar in Buffalo, NY; and Captain Lawrence Brewing Co. in Westchester, NY.
Join the New York Water Rangers to celebrate the Empire State’s award-winning water and beer!
On tap: Syracuse, Cooperstown, and maybe even a town near you!
Save our beer and protect our health from fracking!
See also: Staff. Fracking threatens Germany’s ‘absolutely pure beer,’ brewers say. 23 May 2013. Bloomberg News via Financial Post.
German brewers called on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block the tapping of shale gas by means of hydraulic fracturing, citing industry concerns that fracking could taint the purity of the country’s beer
German brewers called on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block the tapping of shale gas by means of hydraulic fracturing, citing industry concerns that fracking could taint the purity of the country’s beer.
The Association of German Breweries, which represents companies including Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and Bitburger Braugruppe GmbH, rejected the government’s planned legislation on fracking until groundwater contamination can be safely excluded. They said the current proposals are inadequate to protect drinking water and hence risk infringing the country’s 500-year-old law on beer purity.
“We are concerned that fracking endangers the brewing water that more than half of Germany’s breweries take from private wells,” Marc-Oliver Huhnholz, a spokesman for the group, said Thursday by phone from Berlin. “And that it threatens our absolutely pure beer.”
Staff. Fracking threatens Germany’s ‘absolutely pure beer,’ brewers say. 23 May 2013. Bloomberg News via Financial Post.
See: Environmental Advocates New York
See: WATER | Clean Water Action
See: Coalition to Protect New York | Let’s Live Frack Free!
See: Rainforest Action Network
See: Sierra Club Finger Lakes Group Gas Information Page
See: Catskill Mountainkeeper | Working Together to Protect the Catskills
See: Earthjustice
See: State Decision Blocks Drilling for Gas in Catskills
See: U.S. EPA Initiates Hydraulic Fracturing Study | Meeting | EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB)
See: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) – The Earth’s Best Defense
See: Riverkeeper – NY’s Clean Water Advocate
See: Delaware Riverkeeper Network
See: DamascusCitizens.org
