As Executive Director of Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community (www.ccfasc.org), I want to remind everyone of the Ban Fracking Now Protest at 5:30 this afternoon on the sidewalk in front of City Hall, 9770 Culver Blvd.
Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community joins with Food & Water Watch, Grassroots Coalition, Environment Now, Neighborhood Council for Baldwin Hills, and 50,000 Californians calling on Gov. Brown and members of the California Legislature to author a ban on fracking now.
California needs to join Vermont, New York, New Jersey, France, Bulgaria and a host of local communities across the United States that have banned fracking. Fifty thousand Californians have already signed the Food & Water Watch petition calling for a Ban in California.
Facebook Event Page indicates a large turnout. Many more not on facebook are also expected.
https://www.facebook.com/events/140987742703318/
Background:
The California Dept. of Conservation Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) is the state agency responsible for protecting Californians from the dangers of fracking.
They are dragging their feet. Even though fracking already is taking place all over the state, DOGGR is just starting to think about how to protect Californians from its harmful effects.
Tonight at 7 in Council Chambers, DOGGR finally is holding a workshop on how to “safely regulate” fracking in the Los Angeles area.
Protest aims to tell them that regulations don't work — we need to ban fracking now. Fracking is a dangerous method of extracting natural gas and oil. Millions of gallons of water, toxic chemicals and sand are injected underground at extremely high pressures in order to release and extract oil or gas.
Fracking has been compared to exploding a massive pipe bomb of toxic chemicals underground. The inherent dangers of fracking have been demonstrated over and over by a series of fracking-related disasters across the country — from flammable tap water to major health issues, communities around the country have seen it all. To protect California's public health and the environment, the only viable solution is to ban fracking.
See Fracking 101 section at www.ccfasc.org for more about fracking.
