Mark Ruffalo: Don’t Frack Up New Jersey
Mark Ruffalo, the curly-haired prince of the anti-fracking crusade, is back at it, and this time he’s schlepping his message to the Garden State.
“Drilling for natural gas in the Delaware River Basin will mean threatening the water supply of 15.6 million people,” says Ruffalo in a new spot from Water Defense.
On November 21, the Delaware River Basin Commission will meet in Trenton, New Jersey, to decide the fracking fate for five percent of the U.S. population.
“The commission has five voting members: the Governors of the four states that draw water from the Delaware, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which serves at the direction of President Obama,” reads a statement on the organization’s website. “President Obama holds the critical swing vote on the panel.”
In the video, Ruffalo directly challenges #44, asking, “President Obama, which side do you stand on?”
At stake?
Twenty-two thousand gas wells planned for the greater Delaware region.
The collective drilling from all those wells would lead to epidemic rates of water contamination, catastrophic accidents, and severe public health impacts.
If you stand on the side of the field that doesn’t want to be able to light their tap water on fire, join Ruffalo in emailing the President to stand up to the oil and natural gas industry.
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