8th September 2011

Just received from our colleagues at Food and Water Watch (USA):

This morning we've organized hundreds of people to travel to the Shale Gas Outrage Rally in Philadelphia, where thousands of people from across the country are coming together to fight against fracking.

This dangerous practice has already contaminated more than 1,000 water wells and caused many other serious problems like explosions, quarantined livestock and radioactive wastewater. . .

Communities across the country are racing to protect their water from the dangerous and unnecessary practice of fracking. From Dimock, Pennsylvania to Santa Barbara, California, residents are standing up and saying "Ban Fracking Now." We're working with folks in some of the frontline communities to ban fracking so that they'll have safe clean water for their families and livelihoods. . .

Communities across the country are racing to protect their water from the dangerous and unnecessary practice of fracking. From Dimock, Pennsylvania to Santa Barbara, California, residents are standing up and saying "Ban Fracking Now." We're working with folks in some of the frontline communities to ban fracking so that they'll have safe clean water for their families and livelihoods. . ."

- Australian governments are simply not doing enough to prevent the same disaster occurring in this country. They seem prepared to risk the Great Artesian Basin and the Murray-Darling river system for the sake of investment and tax dollars.

Please take a moment to contact your Federal and State members of Parliament and ministers with responsibility for the environment and water  - and let them know that the only safe approach is a moratorium on all coal seam gas mining, pending full evaluation of this technology, which has had such serious environmental and pubic health impacts in the USA.