Clean & Safe Water: Comment for Public Health
The following is a submitted letter to the editor from Waterspirit’s Public Policy & Justice Organizer, Rachel Dawn Davis. She urges there is still time to use your voice to protect the Delaware River Basin and surrounding areas — before Monday, February 28th when the comment period ends. To learn more, visit the links below and please share this opportunity to help.
This was published on LehighValleyLive.com Sunday February 27th
Fracking and wastewater could devastate the Delaware River Basin and precious fresh water could be shipped for fracking purposes outside the region; you can help prevent this by sharing your comments until February 28th. Send your comment to the Delaware River Basin Commission — Governors of PA, NY, DE and NJ and an Army Corps of Engineers Representative of President Biden- today: https://bit.ly/LovetheDelawareRiverCommentToday
Cancer rates and mental health crises are up in proximity to natural gas infrastructure. Two studies out this year show adults are dying earlier and children are dying due to exposure of undisclosed chemicals while infants. Preventable death remains the worst social cost of business. When will mothers catch a break?
I spent summers in Pike County and the blue jewel: Dingmans falls. A decade ago, trees there were cleared for a pipeline. I was pregnant when I helped educate enough communities in DE about the threats of fracking to air, land and livelihood, that the then acting DRBC representatives postponed a vote in 2011.
In 2021, finally the DRBC did the right thing and banned fracking in the basin. Let’s keep it that way!
Parents living in and outside the basin fear bathing their children, washing their hands, every day; there is no other place to go for clean water. Please, help protect this precious part of Creation! There is still time to tell the DRBC. https://bit.ly/LovetheDelawareRiverCommentToday
