FIPS CARES: No Fracking Way!

Last time I checked, tap water shouldn’t be flammable.

So it gives me serious agita when I hear that 230 mystery toxins may be coming to a glass of water near me (and you), courtesy of our deeply suckish Governor.

Paterson's tentatively given the go-ahead to tens of thousands of natural gas drilling operations upstate using the scary-ass sounding “Halliburton technique” (aka fracking). This entails pouring gazillions of gallons of chemically-treated water (exempted from Clean Water Act disclosure rules) deep underground, in order to break into a shale-protected motherlode of natural gas deposits (think lots of dinero for somebody).

So, these mines have been failing and leaching into water tables across the country, as well as turning those bucolic countrysides we city folk like to escape to on weekends into industrial wastelands.

Now it takes a lot to get well-tended, albeit Sigg-toting, Park Slopers off our proverbial asses, but today’s (DEC 31) the deadline for telling our esteemed governor what you think of his plans to approve dangerous gas drilling techniques that will permanently fuck up our unspoiled country getaways (or the ones we mooch off of), as well as our water supply.

So, before you imbibe that glass of cheap champagne (or better yet, after), please drop Paterson a line (and in the meantime, please enjoy the video above of former Park Slope celeb Jennifer Connelly in this PSA for charity: water, in which she pretends to be a poor African woman).