Don't Waste CT: Support Laws to Regulate Fracking Waste and Protect Water

Good morning!  I just came across this article that was posted yesterday.  Important meetings to pass laws in CT are happening today (2/28/14) at 1 p.m.   Please read and take the time to learn more about how this impacts our state, health and people and animals.  Water is a precious resource.  We can't live without it.  Say no to fracking.

Article - http://greencitiesbluewaters.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/dont-waste-ct-support-laws-to-regulate-frackin...

Here's what you can do:

Letter - http://greencitiesbluewaters.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/sample-testimony-fracking-sb237-hb5308-and-...

E-mail your testimony to env.testimony@cga.ct.gov by 8:00 AM Friday morning (2.28.14), and please send us a copy at lmcmillan@ctenvironment.org. Thank you!

Can you do more? Come to the hearing to speak!

Friday, February 28
1:00 PM
Room 2B, Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT

Here's a documentary I just happened to watch by chance last night on fracking called "Wasteland."  I had no idea our country is turning into a vast toxic dumping ground.  The health of our country, it's water, it's people and environment are seriously being affected. 

Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96AEzQYangE#t=25

Thank you for taking the time to become aware.  You don't hear about this on the news very often and when you do it's too late.  Let your voice be heard when it counts, when laws are being passed.

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Because water is so important to me, this is something else I'm involved in.  Matt Lesser with the CT State Legislature will be giving a talk the night of the show.

I'm happy to add my photography and creative skills to the second annual Passionate Waters show on World Water Day on March 22, 5-7 p.m.

Water is one of my favorite subject matters to shoot. I'm drawn to it. It can give life, it can take life. Without it, we would not survive. I think of the drought in California, the fracking poisoning in West Virginia where drinking water is contaminated and in the Black Hills of South Dakota where uranium mining is threatening our waterways and habitability for humans and animals. I scratch my head and wonder why. I know the answer boils down to somebody is making money polluting our planet and it deeply saddens me.

I chose this image of the dry cracked earth I shot at the MDC reservoir in Colebrook, CT in October 2013 when they had partially drained the water from the reservoir. It is the opposite of abundance.

I'm a true believer in making a difference in the world through my photography and whatever means possible. Water is essential to our survival. Let's keep it clean, safe and abundant. So many states and countries don't have the resources we do. Come learn how you can protect your natural resources.

A $10 donation is suggested and will benefit Source to the Sea Cleanup. Go to CTriver.org to learn more.

Thanks to Middletown Framing MAC 650 Gallery & Artist Co-Op and Middletown Art Academy for sponsoring another worthwhile event!