The Delaware watershed is safe for now
The Delaware River Basin Commission has cancelled their upcoming meeting on Monday, when they could have voted to allow fracking in the Delaware watershed.
That means the Delaware River Basin, and the 15 million people who get their drinking water from it, are safe — for the moment — from the dangers of fracking.
In the last week more than 40,000 CREDO members signed petitions, and made nearly 3,000 phone calls to the Governors of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and to President Obama.
Cancelling the meeting is a huge indication that this pressure was heard by the Delaware River Basin Governors and President Obama — and that the commission did not have the votes in favor of the plan to allow nearly 20,000 gas wells in the basin. Indeed, the cancellation was announced shortly after Delaware Governor Jack Markell sent a letter yesterday stating that he would oppose the rules.
We don't know yet when or if the commission will reschedule the meeting, or how this fracking plan will now move forward. But for the moment, this is a huge victory for clean water. Our congratulations and thanks go to the many activists that did so much great work over the past months to make this happen. Gasland Director Josh Fox and Save The Delaware, Mark Ruffalo and Water Defense, Food and Water Watch, Frack Action and many others.
Please share this victory now and keep up the pressure on our leaders to stop the rapid expansion of dangerous fracking. Your pressure worked. Thank you for helping to make this happen.
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