We are Marcellus Outreach Butler

Marcellus Outreach Butler (MOB) is a grassroots environmental organization that was formed in 2010 by a group of concerned Butler County residents to educate and inform the public about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. MOB has conducted ongoing public outreach for over the years, hosting expert speakers, film screenings, public meetings and forums, and organizing rallies, protests, and marches. MOB fully supports and actively advocates for a national ban on fracking, as we believe that it can never be done safely. MOB is also dedicated to educating Butler County about climate change and its effects, as well as fracking’s significant role in causing climate change.
 
Our Mission
We envision a Butler County powered by renewable energy, not fossil fuels. Our mission is to educate, advocate, and activate communities to ban fracking and its infrastructure and promote renewable energy.
 
MOB is a founding member and steering committee member of Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, a statewide coalition made up of groups and individuals across the state that is working toward a ban on fracking. MOB is also a founding member of the Protect Our Children Coalition, another statewide coalition working to prevent fracking and infrastructure in close proximity to schools.
 
Our Values
  • Environmental Stewardship: MOB believes that the Earth is our common home, and we must take care of it as good stewards for future generations. We cannot survive without a clean, healthy environment.
  • Sustainability: MOB believes that our actions must sustain the natural systems of the planet, not endlessly exploit resources for our own gain.
  • Responsibility: We are responsible not only to ourselves and to others, but to the Earth as well. We all have a responsibility to stand up and protect our communities.
  • Trustworthiness: Trust is paramount to MOB. We want people to be able to trust us, since the gas industry and the government have shown that they can’t be trusted.
  • Truthfulness: All of the information MOB provides comes from reliable sources, including peer-reviewed scientific studies, news articles, and experts, and we never spread false or incorrect information.
  • Community: MOB wants our communities to be whole, and we seek only to keep the community safe and healthy.
  • Health: Health is a basic human right, especially in the most developed country in the world.
  • Safety: MOB believes that everyone has a right to feel safe in their own home, not threatened by dangerous industrial sites.
  • Democracy: MOB believes in free and fair democracy, in which everyday citizens control our government, not fossil fuel corporations and billionaires.

Ways to Get Involved
Learn more about fracking through independent, unbiased sources
  • Attend township, borough, and county meetings to voice your opinions and concerns
  • Write letters to the editor of local newspapers
  • Write, call, e-mail, or visit state and federal elected officials
  • Take part in rallies, marches, and protests to make a visual statement
  • Monitor the gas industry by watching well sites, pipelines, compressor stations, truck traffic, permit activity, and violations
  • Show your support by placing signs in your yard and wearing our “Ban Fracking Now” buttons
  • Attend MOB meetings and events, as well as events held by local groups
Fracking Help Center - Halt The Harm Network
Do you have questions?  This site has answers.  Click here for more.
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Water for Woodlands

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​The people of The Woodlands in Connoquenessing Township desperately need your help. Over 50 families have been without water for over 9 years. Their only source of water is a "water bank" that is completely reliant on donations. Please help them in any way you can!
Make a donation to
Marcellus Outreach Butler.

The Krendale Threat

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Click on the picture to see photos from our actions protesting the Krendale pad.
Help us fight the Krendale well pad in Butler Township! More info here.

View the presentations from our April 7, 2018 Krendale program here.
PA State Mapping Tool
PA Oil & Gas Mapping

This mapping system allows you to measure distances from a well pad to you. See the map below with the measured distance between Connoquenessing Elementary School and the nearest well pad.

http://www.depgis.state.pa.us/PaOilAndGasMapping/
"The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all of 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."

-Article 1, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

Butler County at Risk

MISSION STATEMENT

Marcellus Outreach Butler (MOB) is a grassroots environmental organization that was formed in 2010 by a group of concerned Butler County residents to educate and inform the public about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. MOB has conducted ongoing public outreach for over 7 years, hosting expert speakers, film screenings, public meetings and forums, and organizing rallies, protests, and marches. MOB fully supports and actively advocates for a national ban on fracking, as we believe that it can never be done safely. MOB is also dedicated to educating Butler County about climate change and its effects, as well as fracking’s significant role in causing climate change.
 
We envision a Butler County powered by renewable energy, not fossil fuels. Our mission is to educate, advocate, and activate communities to ban fracking and its infrastructure and promote renewable energy.
Marcellus Outreach Butler is supported in part by a grant from the Three Rivers Community Foundation.