New Jersey Senate Action This Afternoon Imperils Drinking Water. Call Your State Legislators Now!
A New Jersey Senate Committee announced just yesterday it will hold a critical hearing and quite possibly an even more important vote today, Tuesday, January 25 some time in the afternoon.
Please take one more minute right now to finish reading this e-mail and make 4 phone calls - a total of less than 5 minutes to protect New Jersey's drinking water.
The hearing and vote will be to consider two nominees for the New Jersey Highlands Council, the agency charged with regulating development to ensure the protection of more than half the state's water supply.
The two nominees, Sam Race and Richard Vohden, are well known opponents of the Highlands Act, which the Council is charged with implementing! Further, they would take the seats of the two strongest environmental champs on the Council.
Please make the following 4 calls, leave a message with each receptionist that you oppose these nominees and urge Senators to do the same:
- 609-292-5215, Senate Democratic Trenton Office
- 908-232-3673, Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean, Jr.
- 856-251-9801, Senate President Steve Sweeney
- Your own local state Senator - you can find that number online)
Click the headline for the originator of this article -- Jaxonia believes in full disclosure :-)
Thnaks for posting this. I hope you can stop it and I hope New Jersey is smarter than NY. I also hope that our fracking doesn't mess up your water, which in probably will. We got Gov. Paterson to sign a moratorium on fracking that lasts until April. Unfortunately is was only on vertical fracking, so it's my understanding that they have begun horizontal fracking upstate. I really feel that it is possible that this process will destroy the eastern seaboard as we know it. There's no possible way that enough water could be shipped in on a daily basis ( which is one way the toxic water is being addressed elsewhere in the country) to service the 13 million people who are currently using water from the Marcellus Shale aquifer. It is unconscionable, especially since the country currently has a surplus of natural gas.
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