Stop Spectra pipeline & Save the Delaware River-DRBC deadline for comments is 5PM, March 16, 2011
Despite widespread opposition, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) prematurely issued draft gas drilling regulations for the Delaware River Basin. Allowing hydraulic fracturing would gravely imperil the water resources of the Delaware River Basin that serve the basic needs of water and recreation for some 15 million people.
The ultimate goal of Spectra Energy is to plow their pipeline through Jersey City to other pipelines. These pipelines snake down from Ontario, the MidWest, the Northeast and all hope to connect gas for ultimate export. The Spectra pipeline wouldn't be needed without the proposed hydro-fracking in the Marcellus Shale that borders the Delaware River watershed. Spectra could dump toxins into our Delaware River by carrying Marcellus Shale hydro-fracked gas.
United for Action, a coalition of which NO Gas Pipeline is a member, ask you to write a letter to the DRBC to protest the approval of hydro-fracking in the DelawareRiver Basin.
Write to the DelawareRiver BasinCommission (DRBC) in Trenton so that it is received by March 16th at 5pm.
1. Download and Print the Letter OR Submit Online
> Click here to download and print this one-page letter (PDF)
> Click here to submit online (due by 5:00 PM on March 16)
2. Sign the Letter
Sign the letter and include your printed name, address, affiliation and whether you have written additional comments on the reverse side of the paper.
3. Mail Your Letter Direct to DRBC
Commission Secretary, DRBC
P.O. Box 7360
25 State Police Drive
West Trenton NJ, 08628
And don't forget, you can also comment in other ways, in addition to the letter. Comment early and often! Click here for instructions.
Follow the "Instructions for Submitting Written Comments" on DRBC's web page. Or just go directly to the commenting form here. For some ideas about what to say, check out these criticisms of the DRBC regulations.
If you can, please join United for Action at the hearing on February 24 in Trenton. For people departing from NYC Penn Station, here are the details.
