COLUMBIA GAS PIPELINE
Fracking in Pennsylvania? A fracking pipeline from Pennsylvania through the Potomac River? Approved already?
Columbia Pipeline Group has received authorization to move forward with a fracking gas pipeline that would originate in Pennsylvania, intersect in Hancock, MD, and run through the
C & O Canal and Potomac River on it's way to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
The National Park Service was responsible for protecting the lands and waters within their jurisdiction, yet gave the green light to the pipeline, without community and/or citizen involvement.
It is our opinion that we need to step up and hold them accountable. It's not just the NPS, but they are a great beginning point. There are numerous local Environmental Groups that are addressing this issue like the Potomac Riverkeeper Network and Potomac Conservancy, among others. We need to step up and protect our backyard.
At this step of the process, Governor Larry Hogan will be a big part of whether or not this pipeline may move forward. Let's let our voices be heard. We're writing letters to Governor Hogan and the National Park Service to let them know they are here to serve us and our environment, not corporations.
Help with letters !
We are asking folks to write a letters to:
Governor Larry Hogan
100 State Circle
Annapolis, MD 21401
Michael T. Reynolds; Director of National Park Service
National Park Service
1849 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20240
c/o Michael T. Reynolds, Director
Fracking in Pennsylvania? A fracking pipeline from Pennsylvania through the Potomac River? Approved already?
Columbia Pipeline Group has received authorization to move forward with a fracking gas pipeline that would originate in Pennsylvania, intersect in Hancock, MD, and run through the
C & O Canal and Potomac River on it's way to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
The National Park Service was responsible for protecting the lands and waters within their jurisdiction, yet gave the green light to the pipeline, without community and/or citizen involvement.
It is our opinion that we need to step up and hold them accountable. It's not just the NPS, but they are a great beginning point. There are numerous local Environmental Groups that are addressing this issue like the Potomac Riverkeeper Network and Potomac Conservancy, among others. We need to step up and protect our backyard.
At this step of the process, Governor Larry Hogan will be a big part of whether or not this pipeline may move forward. Let's let our voices be heard. We're writing letters to Governor Hogan and the National Park Service to let them know they are here to serve us and our environment, not corporations.
Help with letters !
We are asking folks to write a letters to:
Governor Larry Hogan
100 State Circle
Annapolis, MD 21401
Michael T. Reynolds; Director of National Park Service
National Park Service
1849 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20240
c/o Michael T. Reynolds, Director
Cleaner Water Foundation operates currently in the following states; Maryland, Virginia, New York, and the District of Columbia. We will continue to expand our outreach and activism in additional States in the very near future.
Current Focus and Campaigns
Our main focus is always drinking water, and will continue to be so until tap water is safe to serve unfiltered to an infant child, pregnant mother, infirm, healthy or elderly person. Every individual deserves a right to clean water, regardless of any classification. While drinking water is the most important project in our sights, we are also focused to participate in local projects for the betterment of our communities backyards and neighborhoods. With that in mind, through all of our work we fight a dedicated stalwart effort to invigorate activism through education and awareness regarding the health and moral concerns over water fluoridation.
The following are examples of our local campaigns:
District of Columbia ( DC )
- We are fighting to keep corrosive chemicals in hydrafluorosalicylic acid from leaching the lead of existing pipelines into the drinking water.
Maryland
( Montgomery County, Frederick County )
-Montgomery County’s Lake Frank and Lake Needwood for the past five years have been destroyed by toxic blue algae blooms, poisonous to both humans and animals. Signs are posted not to swim or allow pets near the water. The toxic blooms are due to excessive amounts of fertilizer seeping its way into the lake. These are the lakes that our children should be fishing and playing in, learning about the complexity of natural life and the beauty of clean water, not avoiding because we have turned nature's playground into a lake of toxicity. Cleaner Water Foundation is dedicated to restoring the health of these bodies of water through tried and true green practices and local grassroots support.
-Frederick County is lucky to have one of the cleanest mountain spring drinking water sources on the east coast located right next to the very heart of its Historic Downtown city. Yet there is a vast disconnect between the important history of this spring and how it is treated by the City of Frederick. Cleaner Water Foundation is progressively working towards giving this clean source of drinking water the proper respect and historical significance it is due.
Baltimore
- In Baltimore, the primary campaign of educating and activating the public is moving forward toward gathering the strength in numbers necessary to hold elected officials accountable on the danger of continuing water fluoridation. Local waterway restoration is focused on physically cleaning up the beautiful area of Fells Point and surrounding waterways by organizing community trash pickups, bringing the community towards a closer connection to their waterways.