We are holding our first meeting soon – this month on the 20th, at 7pm at the Senior Citizen Center in Union, WV.

We gather for a most important cause – to protect and save the water table.

We feel, vehemently, that the use of hydraulic fracturing in our karst region will ultimately lead to the contamination of not just our water supply (as it pertains to human consumption) but also our pristine lakes, streams, rivers, and caves (as they pertain to human recreation and well-being).

My personal stance, is that the very concept of firing [at extremely high pressure] millions of gallons of toxic milkshake formulated specifically so that it seeps, cracks, corrodes, and is meant to span out [uncontrollably] – is so preposterous in concept, it astonishes me it was ever allowed in any form, anywhere, ever – let alone in karst country, with our interconnected network of caves, sinkholes, and underground water.

Accordingly, I don’t believe nor likely I will ever that we can regulate these companies to within the parameters we require for our land, for our waters.  The example BP has made and is making is extraordinarily convincing – the very nature of the processes used to extract fuel from the earth (which are distinct but each presents voluminous opportunity for disaster) – is such that no company can guarantee they will not poison the environment.  One drill and then another and then another – about every 400 acres, apparently.  The immense machinery involved, fleets of big rigs for every well, the roads to support them; the noise pollution, the eye-sore; the traffic disturbance; the sub-stations, the pools of processed water (leftover toxic frack fluid); the evaporation of frack fluid directly into the air; the introduction of a mass population of outsider workers that will stress our tiny infrastructure; the frack fluid that never comes home – that stays in the ground never to be recovered or processed, and finally, the infinite number of problems that can and likely will occur on a day-to-day basis – any one of which could threaten our land and our water.

We come together in hopes that our little piece of country, our little slice of Mother Nature, will…not…be…ruined.  Come, join us, and help us bind together to stop the use of hydraulic fracture in an effort to Save the Water Table.

If you are on Facebook, RSVP here : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132961170068776

If not, for more information, send us an email by using our contact form.

Or just show up – 7pm on the 20th of this month, Senior Citizen Center in Union.  We need each and every one of you.

Additionally – we are desperately and graciously seeking legal support and advisement – if there are any lawyers out there who may feel sympathetic to our cause, please send us a note!  Many thanks in advance, should anyone be so inclined.

See you soon.

~m