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Welcome to Marcellus Outreach Butler
NEW INFORMATION Action Alert- Letter of Support for Legal Challenge to Act 13 Act 13 (hb 1950) is law! The municipalities challenging Act 13 need support from all townships to give them more leverage. Contact your municipal leaders by email or in person, either sending the sample letter of support as an attachment or taking a copy to your municipal building. We all need to ask our elected officials to adopt a resolution of support at their next voting meeting. Download letter (pdf) Pa. Woman: Chemicals in my water in drilling area by the AP. Help Butler County Families Hurt by Gas Drilling. A follow-up report. There is a large Take Action button on the page for online donations. Sign a Petition
Rep. Ellis, fulfill your promise to provide delivery of 2,000 gallons of water to the families of Connoquenessing Township, PA whose well water went bad since natural gas drilling starting in their rural community.
Stop the Frack Attack
Over 55 organizations have banned together to take the fight against the fracking-free-for-all to Washington D.C. |
Have you heard about the Tour de Frack?
The Tour de F.r.a.c.k. (Freedom Ride for Awareness and Community Knowledge) is a 14-day bike tour from Butler, PA to Washington DC along the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) and C&O towpath (C&O).
It will take place this summer between July 15-July 28. The riders awareness events in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. They are planning concerts, increasing public awareness, encouraging activism, collecting testimony, circulating a petition and, finally, meeting with our elected officials all from a bike seat.
The riders will depart from Diamond Square in Butler on July 15 and arrive to a rally on the National Mall on July 28. On July 30 the group will deliver a petition and a storybook of personal accounts to congress, the White House, and the EPA.
Find ways to get involved: http://www.tourdefrack.com/how-to-get-involved.html
It will take place this summer between July 15-July 28. The riders awareness events in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. They are planning concerts, increasing public awareness, encouraging activism, collecting testimony, circulating a petition and, finally, meeting with our elected officials all from a bike seat.
The riders will depart from Diamond Square in Butler on July 15 and arrive to a rally on the National Mall on July 28. On July 30 the group will deliver a petition and a storybook of personal accounts to congress, the White House, and the EPA.
Find ways to get involved: http://www.tourdefrack.com/how-to-get-involved.html
Shale Drilling Rig in Butler County, PA
MISSION STATEMENT
Founded
in 2010, our Mission is to provide a strong, credible voice to protect
the health and safety of our communities from the effects of the natural
gas drilling and preserve the resources of clean water and air for our
communities through the following activities:
- Creating and distributing publicity and educational materials
- Organizing Gasland and other film screenings
- Using Social Media, such as Facebook and YouTube to progress our efforts
- Be a communications team for Butler County
- Writing editorials and news releases
- Supporting and promoting protests and actions as needed
- Share personal stories and experiences of the health and safety risks
- Fund raising for our activities
- Advocate for a ban on unconventional shale drilling until proven safe to human health.
Article 1, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution.
“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and aesthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.”
