>From Lauren Steiner: [email protected]
CALL TO ACTION - STOP FRACKING CALIFORNIA Petition Delivery/Rally Monday, August 12th - 12:30 PM 5016 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 222, Calabasas 91302 RSVP: http://on.fb.me/19OCP2n We Need Your Help! More Signatures Needed by August 11th - http://bit.ly/15huBIm WHY WE MUST ACT: The oil industry has discovered 15.4 billion barrels of oil under the Monterey Shale, a rock formation stretching from south of San Francisco to Los Angeles. This is the largest oil play in the nation, holding 2/3rds of the US reserves. If we don't stop Big Oil, they will frack up California with a vengeance. Activists organized to get two strong moratorium bills in the legislature this year and they were gutted and killed by the Democratic leadership. The only bill that survives is a weak regulatory bill, SB 4. As Lauren Steiner, one of the Forward on Climate Rally organizers, wrote in <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/07> her article in Common Dreams published yesterday, no bill is better than a weak bill. Weak regulations do not protect us from the harms of fracking. They just provide political cover to legislators who otherwise could be pressured to vote for a moratorium on the practice. Had 18 Democrats voted yes for the moratorium bill earlier this year, it would have passed. When asked why they didn't, they said they were planning to vote for SB 4 instead. Regulations cannot make fracking safe. Even if they could, the practice still uses too much water in a drought prone state and causes earthquakes in an earthquake prone state. It causes the industrialization of bucolic landscapes and noise and light pollution. Hundreds of daily diesel truck trips destroy roads and cause asthma and other respiratory diseases. Plus, burning all that oil will <http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/18/1187913/-California-s-Fracked-Up-O il-Nearly-As-Bad-As-Keystone-XL> release almost the same amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as the Keystone XL Pipeline. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
