The corporations that hype fracking are trying to lock us into a dirty future powered by fossil fuels. It’s a path that leads to more gas plants, more leaky pipelines, more compressor stations, more "bomb trains," more dangerous storage facilities, more communities in danger and more climate change.
At a time when we are still in the midst of a global pandemic, the last thing we need is for polluting industries to put our health at further risk. We can't let them keep putting their own profits over people's health and safety.
Fracking forces toxic chemicals into the ground and releases harmful pollution into the air. It causes water contamination and massive amounts of methane leakage. If the water we drink and the air we breathe are under constant attack by this polluting industry, our health and wellbeing are under attack too.
While climate change and environmental pollution impact everyone across the country, not all of us are impacted the same. Lower-wealth communities and Black, Indigenous and other communities of color are disproportionately situated near toxic extraction sites and infrastructure. In fact, the NAACP found that one million Black people live within a half-mile of existing fracked gas facilities.
From explosions and leaks to contaminated drinking water, fracking and its related infrastructure have plagued frontline communities with severe public health impacts. Research from the past decade has shown that those who live closest to oil and gas operations are more likely to have negative health outcomes such as cancer, reproductive problems, blood-related disorders (in children), asthma, migraines, fatigue, nasal and sinus symptoms, and skin disorders.
Our right to clean air, safe water and a healthy, livable climate future are under assault by Big Oil & Gas day in and day out – and it's up to us to stop these polluters. We must act now to save our communities from further abuse from the fracking industry and the lasting health effects that it will undoubtedly cause.
From over a decade of work and hundreds of studies, we know that this lawless and reckless industry can’t be made safe. So it’s time to stop it for good.
As Big Oil & Gas continues to plan for major build-outs of toxic fracking infrastructure that could make entire communities sick and further destabilize our climate, we’re working to ban fracking once and for all.
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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