Fracking in America's back yard

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From: "Linda Capato - 350.org" <organizers@350.org>
Date: Aug 17, 2013 11:03 AM
Subject: Fracking in America's back yard
To: "Daniel Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

The Bureau of Land Management is deciding whether to allow fracking on federally owned public lands. Can you submit a comment to tell them that the public's land should be frack-free?

Friends,

Big oil wants to bring fracking to the public's back yard.

Right now the Bureau of Land Management -- the agency responsible for managing publicly-owned federal lands -- is making up rules that could allow fracking to start on public land across the United States. That means more toxic chemicals, millions of gallons of wastewater and digging out more climate-cooking fossil fuels -- all on land that we, the people, own.

America's public lands are vast, and much of them untouched -- which is why big oil and gas will push hard to drill. To push back, we're joining a movement-wide effort to flood the BLM with comments demanding they stop fracking on public lands. Hundreds of thousands have already been submitted, and we only have a few more days before the comment period closes.

Will you join the flood of comments to the BLM to keep public lands frack-free? Click here to submit a comment: act.350.org/letter/public-lands-fracking/

As the planet heats up, there's no excuse to go drilling for more fossil fuels on America's public lands.

Fracking is a climate disaster. Every step of drilling and moving gas leaks methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas, and what doesn't leak gets turned into CO2 (which we already have too much of anyways).

The BLM has alternatives, like expanding solar and wind leasing -- a fact President Obama just demonstrated when he finally green-lit solar panels on the White House.  Renewable energy can power the country, but only if we stop supporting more fossil fuel extraction and get serious about funding the sustainable energy revolution we need.

American public lands should be used to support a livable future for Americans, not the bottom lines of the fossil fuel industry. The comment period closes early next week, and a big flood of comments would shake up the normally sleepy bureaucracy and send a strong message that the BLM has the support they need to stop fracking in its tracks.

Thanks for pitching in, and I'll be in touch with an update once the comment period closes.

Linda

P.S. The Draw the Line Day of Action is off to a strong start. It looks like there will be a serious wave of action on September 21st to stop Keystone XL. If you have questions or want to host an action, click here to join: act.350.org/event/draw_the_line/create/

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