Please join Food & Water Watch for an educational workshop designed for municipal officials, community leaders, and members of the public to learn how fracking, fracking waste, and related natural gas infrastructure pose a threat to the New Jersey coast. The presentation will provide an overview of fracking, discuss how fracking waste and natural gas infrastructure are already impacting communities throughout New Jersey, how fracking waste and fracking-related infrastructure threaten the coast, and how municipalities can take action at the local level.
Throughout the previous year, Food & Water Watch has helped a growing movement of municipalities take local action against fracking, fracking waste, and related natural gas infrastructure in the absence of statewide bans. Find out if your community is at risk, learn what some communities have already done, and learn what you can do to keep this highly controversial method of natural gas drilling and its toxic byproducts out of your community.
All attendees will receive a flashdrive, as well as all the materials and resources needed to pass a local ordinance.
Fracking & the Jersey Shore:
How Fracking Impacts Your Community and What You Can Do About It
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Unitarian Universalist Ocean County Congregation
734 Route 37 West, Toms River, NJ 08755
*Refreshments will be provided by Dean’s Natural Food Market*
This event is free and open to the public so feel free to share the invitation with others.
For questions, or to reserve a seat, please contact Lauren Petrie at (732) 993-8966 or lpetrie@fwwatch.org
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Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping the global commons – our shared resources – under public control.
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