Together We Can Keep Our Watershed Safe From Pipelines!

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network is at the forefront of the fight against shale gas companies seeking to inflict harm upon communities in the region through new gas pipelines and related infrastructure. Currently, we are using our resources and working with local communities to defend the Delaware River Watershed from fracking and submitting comments to urge the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation (NYSDEC) to say NO to the Constitution Pipeline.

Our legal and advocacy work is made possible in part through financial support from our dedicated and generous members and supporters. Every dollar donated makes a difference in the number of threats to the River that we are able to take on. Your gift today can help to ensure that there will always be a strong environmental advocacy organization working throughout the Watershed, taking on challenges in defense of the River and its communities. Your support will help to ensure that our children and grandchildren will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of clean streams.

Background:

A permanent ban prohibiting high volume hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the Delaware River Watershed was adopted by the DRBC in February 2021 following a moratorium on gas drilling instituted in 2010 and after more than ten years of comprehensive research and public input, which concluded with the ban.

But special interests have attacked the ban on fracking recently and we are rallying to resist any and all efforts to overturn the ban. The Pledge, already signed by some people, is available now to be signed by individuals, stating “I Take This Pledge of Resistance and Protection…in solidarity to uphold the ban on high volume hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and to resist all the harmful activities that fossil gas/oil development brings.”

NYSDEC already said no to the Constitution Pipeline project in 2016, due to insufficient information and lack of analyses in the Project application that failed to demonstrate if the project would or could comply with state water quality standards. Based on what Delaware Riverkeeper Network knows, Constitution has submitted the same, decade-old, inadequate application to NYSDEC for in its latest push for the Project.

Not only would the Constitution Pipeline bring direct and negative impacts to the ecosystem in the immediate vicinity, but Delaware Riverkeeper Network believes the insertion of natural gas infrastructure in this region is likely to induce the development of additional gas wells, including those developed utilizing the extraction technique of high volume hydraulic fracturing

Support our Fight Against Pipelines in the Watershed!

By Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Support our Fight Against Pipelines in the Watershed!