We are an independent regional non-profit 501c3 grassroots environmental organization working to protect the Catskills. We represent thousands of members who care about the future of the region. There is a large amount of information on our site. Here on the homepage we have breaking news and key information about our current campaigns. Use the navigation functions to find out about much more.
Frack Action is engaged in a long-term campaign to protect our water, air and public health from the dangerous practice of hydraulic fracturing. By raising awareness and empowering the public to organize in defense of their communities, we seek to expose the false claims of the gas industry and mobilize a citizen movement to protect our health and our future.
The Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to informing the citizens of Luzerne County about natural gas drilling. We are an alliance of people from all walks of life & professions, working together for the protection of our communities and environment from exploitative gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region of Northeast, PA.
New York Residents Against Drilling (NYRAD) is a grassroots network of local residents who are opposed to unconventional gas development in New York State.
High volume hydraulic fracturing threatens our land, air, and water, jeopardizing the economic and physical health of our communities. Thousands of wells, many miles of pipelines, and large noisy compressor stations could turn our rural communities into giant industrial zones.
Riverkeeper is a member-supported watchdog organization dedicated to defending the Hudson River and its tributaries and protecting the drinking water supply of nine million New York City and Hudson Valley residents.
For more than 44 years Riverkeeper has been New York’s clean water advocate. We have helped to establish globally recognized standards for waterway and watershed protection and serve as the model and mentor for the growing Waterkeeper movement that includes nearly 200 Keeper programs across the country and around the globe.
Shaleshock Action Alliance is a movement that works toward protecting our communities and environment from exploitative gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region.
Shaleshock is an alliance which include people who have signed leases, not signed leases, who have been compulsorily integrated, and people who don’t own land. As a movement, no individual or group can represent Shaleshock as a whole.
The Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter opposes unconventional gas extraction practices in New York State as it is now practiced, and as it is proposed in the dSGEIS, because such practices and proposals:
- endanger water supplies and critical watersheds;
- imperil human health;
- seriously damage important wild land resources;
- significantly increase habitat fragmentation;
- use fracking fluids that pose unacceptable toxic risks;
- do not disclose the identity and volume of fracking fluids;
- do not properly treat, manage, and account for fracking fluids, drilling muds, and wastewater;
- do not adequately protect drinking water aquifers and surface waters from contamination; and
- will cause violations of air quality standards, individually and cumulatively
One of the most beautiful places in the world and source of drinking water for 5 percent of the US, an area that includes New York State's Southern Tier, the Susquehanna and Upper Delaware river basins, & the Catskill Mountains, is severely threatened by a scale & method of natural gas drilling never seen here before, one that has cut an unhealed swath of destruction through other states.