Upcoming Events 2/23/2012, 9:00am-5:00pm - Metropolitan Sewerage/Water System Committee hearing on Asheville Water System, WNC Ag Center, Fletcher (details)
March 20 and 27, 6:30-9:30 PM - Shale Gas Study Hearing (details)
Order “Gasland” 
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Update: The important and highly controversial study by EPA Region 8 on groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing in Pavilion, WY, is an important read for all digging deeper. Due to high public interest, deadline for public comments has been extended to MARCH 12. CWFNC will be submitting comments and urges others to do so. The industry is dominating the comment docket so far!
Read the report, “Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming.”. Submit comments through . . . → Read More: Submit your comments on EPA Pavilion Study
Next week, you can make a difference at the Nuclear Resources Commission’s public hearing for a proposed new nuclear generator in Gaffney, SC, just 40 miles southwest of Charlotte on the Broad River (and less than 2 hours from Asheville). The William States Lee facility would disproportionately impact low-income folks living nearby, increase the number of existing or proposed nuclear reactors on the Broad River to FIVE, return HOT water to the river, and potentially impact . . . → Read More: Jan. 19 Hearing on Future Duke Nuke station near Charlotte
A Warning To North Carolina (regarding the realities of fracking & offshore drilling). from Tinkham Town on Vimeo.
Preview new video footage, including footage from our September 10 Summit. Please share this widely, and don’t forget to call your legislators asking them to uphold the Governor’s Veto of Senate . . . → Read More: A Warning and Call to Action
There are some great upcoming events and film showings in Pittsboro and Raleigh. See our Fracking Events page for more information!
“Mineral Rights Leases – What Landowners Should Know about Natural Gas Leasing”
Tuesday, July 19, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Chatham County Agricultural Center, 45 South St Pittsboro, NC 27312 (map)
(hosted by the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA) and the Chatham County Cooperative Extension Service)
Contact: jordan@rafiusa.org
GASLAND
Tuesday, July 19, 7pm – 9pm
The Barn at Ferrington Village, 2000 Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro, . . . → Read More: July Fracking Events
Your calls needed to NC legislators
(Main Fracking Page )
It took a lot of courage for Gov. Perdue to veto several very bad bills that came out of the NC General Assembly last session. However, a short session that starts JULY 13 will offer a chance for legislators to override the Governor’s veto of S709 (bad drill bill that promotes offshore oil drilling and “studies” how to change NC regulations to allow fracking) and S781 (undermines . . . → Read More: Help sustain Gov. Perdue’s vetoes of S709, S781
Statewide Energy Efficiency: Create “Green Collar” Jobs, Control Energy Costs for Consumers, Improve NC’s Older Housing Stock
NC SAVE$ ENERGY Bill Filed to Create Statewide Independent Energy Efficiency Program
Over 50 Groups and Businesses Endorse Public Benefit Fund for Efficiency
Raleigh, NC – Representative Paul Luebke of Durham and primary sponsors from Asheville, Winston-Salem and Greensboro have filed House Bill 874 to create a Public Benefit Fund to increase energy efficiency in homes and and public service buildings throughout . . . → Read More: Take Action Today for Energy Efficiency
Kelly Gant, mother of 2 from Bartonville, TX: “I’m not an activist, an alarmist, a Democrat, environmentalist or anything like that, I’m just a person who isn’’t able to manage the health of my family because of all this drilling [fracking].”
Click on the map to explore NY Times’ interactive feature on toxic contamination from gas wells!
The February 26th, 2011 NY Times Article, “Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers,” revealed:
Concrete evidence of lax regulation . . . → Read More: NY Times Exposes Weak Fracking Regulations
This photo (below, top) shows firsthand the devastation of natural gas “fracking” on one family’s property in southwestern Pennsylvania. Stephanie Halloway and her family did not sign a lease with gas companies, but they have been affected by the prior landowner’s decision, with well pads, impoundments, processing plants, compressor stations, roads and pipelines, all within 150-700 yds. of her home. Read more about her family.
Can you picture the same thing happening on the rural North Carolina farm (below, bottom)? Read on to take action and tell the Obama Administration, which is still actively supporting increased gas drilling, that studies must be completed before increased fracking can continue! Contact EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson (Jackson.lisap@epa.gov) and the White House today.
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So far we’ve partnered with organizations in Chatham, Lee and Granville Counties to show the film “GASLAND”, but that’s just the start. Would you help arrange a showing near you?
CWFNC is currently seeking partners to show this important documentary in counties potentially affected by hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” for natural gas. Not sure if your county is affected? Check our map!
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