US Grassroots Effort to Ban Fracking Ramps Up, as Groups Solicit the UN to Recognize Fracking as a Human Rights Issue

US Grassroots Effort to Ban Fracking Ramps Up, as Groups Solicit the UN to Recognize Fracking as a Human Rights Issue September 14, 2011, Food and Water Watch
“Fracking is not clean, or green,” says Lois Gibbs, Executive Director of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice. “We don’t have to look any further than Dimock, Pennsylvania or Dish, Texas to see the devastating effects of fracking, and we must ban the practice to ensure that no other communities are made unsafe or unlivable in its wake.” “There are hundreds of reasons not to frack, any one of which provides sufficient reason to stop hydraulic fracturing,” says David Braun, co-founder of United for Action and the National Grassroots Coalition. “However, we don’t just have one good reason, we don’t just have five, but we’ve got hundreds. So why are we doing it?”