OPPOSE FRACKING IN THE NATIONAL FOREST
The Bureau of Land Management (#BLM) plans to allow #drilling and #fracking in #Ohio 's beloved #WayneNationalForest.
Not only is it home to playful gray #foxes and elusive #deer, "the Wayne" is also a recreational paradise. Over 300 miles of hiking, biking and horseback riding trails crisscross through a quarter million acres of #forest.
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But oil #drilling, #fracking and a steady stream of utility vehicles will pollute, scar and disturb Ohio's only national forest.
We can still keep this forest unspoiled, but we must act before the public comment deadline on May 6. Tell the #BLM: Don't permit leasing for oil and gas in Ohio's only national forest.
The BLMs plan would allow fracking in 40,000 acres of the Wayne National Forest.
Fracking -- a drilling technique whereby water and chemicals
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are injected underground to shatter rock and release #oil and #gas -- will scar this spectacular #forest and potentially irrevocably pollute the #lakes and #streams that flow through it. The cost of fracking is just too great.
Imagine: Forest canopies filled with chirping birds replaced by well pads, roads, #pipelines and other infrastructure -- damaging this precious place.
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The Costs of Fracking report documents a wide range of dollars and cents costs imposed by dirty drilling. The report makes clear that fracking creates millions of dollars of health costs related to everything from air pollution to ruined roads to contaminated property.
It's not a matter of if but when these drilling operations leak oil, gas and chemicals into the surrounding area -- spoiling this previously untouched forest. The deer, foxes, opossums and birds that live here don't deserve to be #poisoned by this stuff.
But we still have a chance to keep this forest unharmed.
Together, we can help ensure that #EnvironmentalProtection, not industrial activity, is the top priority when it comes to our national forests.
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And generations of hikers, bikers and wildlife will thank us if we take action today to protect Ohio's Wayne National Forest.
Before the deadline on May 6, we can make our voices heard. Tell the BLM: Don't introduce oil and gas drilling in Ohio's only national forest.
Thank you for all you do,
The #EnvironmentalAction team
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