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
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by Rachel Lang-Balde As a public health graduate student, my focus was on maternal health and nutrition. Environmental health was a factor in studies of food supply, equitable distribution of resources, water and sanitation, and the community implications of nutritional choices. Becoming a mother while in graduate school made me take a closer look at environmental health and justice beyond the scope of research, thinking about potential consequences to my family and the most vulnerable in my community. I realized environmental health and justice included a safe environment, but also access to healthy organic food, safety from chemicals (Scientific American article) and pollutants in water, and use of nontoxic products. In other words, motherhood encompasses not just the care of a child, but becoming an advocate for others, too, and helping them understand their power to advocate for a clean, safe and just environment for all families…. More… 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” GASLAND New Duke University Study Shows Shale Gas at Hazardous Concentrations in Water Wells Near Fracking A new study from Duke University, just released Monday, shows that wells close to active fracking operations in Pennsylvania and New York are contaminated with methane—and several lines of evidence say that it’s actually from the deep shales being fracked, NOT from shallower biologically produced methane. The closer the wells are to the active fracking location, the more likely the contamination is . . . → Read More: Fracking linked to water contamination in scientific study It’s here! Check out this educational YouTube Video from CWFNC and RAFI, made with help from wonderful . . . → Read More: CWFNC launches new fracking video 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. Hydraulic fracturing, “hydrofracking” or “fracking”… is a method of extracting natural gas that involves blasting underground rock thousands of feet into the ground with a cocktail of sand, water and chemicals. Could it happen here in NC? What are the current laws, regulations, and potentially impacted areas? For answers to these questions and more information, please visit our Main . . . → Read More: Hydrofracking in NC? The long-polluted Pigeon River, flowing through the heart of Cocke County, hasn’t been “fishable” or “swimmable” for over 100 years, and it’s hopeless as a source of treatable drinking water for downstream communities like Hartford and Newport. After hundreds of folks showed up in Newport and Waynesville to protest the most recent permit in early 2010, EPA stepped in, but may have only undermined hopes for further cleanup on the River. Now, the river needs your help! . . . → Read More: The long struggle for a clean Pigeon River |
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