With all due respect, here is my letter and questions for the panel.
Forever our land will be poisoned for once it's done there's no turning back. Doesn't that scare you? Rationale based on profits when there is so much evidence of harms and lack of accountability. Don't you believe the evidence? Adverse side effects on health are well documented, yet this practice is being considered when health care costs are at an all time high and growing. Can we afford the cost? Critical water shortages on our planet are a worry yet excessive use during processing, and the poisoning of local supplies is not enough to convince you? Killing our animal, bird, and fish species and we humans slowly by poison doesn't get your attention? Investing in clean energy is on the rise and earth friendly. Doesn't this excite you? Move you? Don't you want to be leaders in saving our planet? No one can escape the destruction even those who make the profits. Just because it destroys everything slowly, does it mean the outcome won't be the same? Get real with the fact that the outcry against fracking is for our families, our environment, our livelihoods and our existence. Are you that willing to destroy all we stand for? Are you, in good conscience, able to condemn us to this fate?
Respectfully,
Mary Barter
Forever our land will be poisoned for once it's done there's no turning back. Doesn't that scare you? Rationale based on profits when there is so much evidence of harms and lack of accountability. Don't you believe the evidence? Adverse side effects on health are well documented, yet this practice is being considered when health care costs are at an all time high and growing. Can we afford the cost? Critical water shortages on our planet are a worry yet excessive use during processing, and the poisoning of local supplies is not enough to convince you? Killing our animal, bird, and fish species and we humans slowly by poison doesn't get your attention? Investing in clean energy is on the rise and earth friendly. Doesn't this excite you? Move you? Don't you want to be leaders in saving our planet? No one can escape the destruction even those who make the profits. Just because it destroys everything slowly, does it mean the outcome won't be the same? Get real with the fact that the outcry against fracking is for our families, our environment, our livelihoods and our existence. Are you that willing to destroy all we stand for? Are you, in good conscience, able to condemn us to this fate?
Respectfully,
Mary Barter