Is 'Fracking' Coming to Pike County? Sat., January 17th at 1:30 pm Delaware Valley High School Auditorium, 256 Route 6 & 209, Milford, PA (directions) Learn about environmental considerations related to natural gas drilling near the Upper Delaware River. Sponsored by Pike County Citizens for Clean Water and Twin/Walker Creeks Watershed Conservancy. Featured on January 17th: Video clips from Western PA, where hydraulic gas fracking has already occurred Barbara Arrindell, DCS, Slideshow: "Overview of the Process of Mining for Natural Gas" Pat Carullo, DCS: "The Legacy of our Watershed to Our Children" Tracy Carluccio, Delaware Riverkeeper Network: "Upper Delaware, Lower Delaware: One River" Printed information and other resources; Q&A and discussion with the speakers Co-sponsors include: Delaware Riverkeeper Network; Damascus Citizens for Sustainability; Upper Delaware Preservation Coalition; Walker Lake Landowners Assoc.; Shohola Township; Lackawaxen River Conservancy; Representative John Siptroth (189th Legislative District, Pike and Monroe Counties); Pike County Commissioner Karl Wagner; Delaware Twp Supervisors Ileana Hernandez and Ted Parsell; Delaware Twp Environmental Council; STEM (Save the Environment of Moorestown, NJ); Pocono Northeast Resource, Conservation, and Development Council; Rancocas Conservancy (Burlington Co., NJ); Milford Magazine; Richard Buckley, MD, Marina Buckley, MD, Pocono Medical Care. Many other local and down-river officials and organizations are not co-sponsoring, but have indicated they will attend. Additional Resources on Fracking Thumper Trucks from Dawson Geophysical of Midland, Texas do seismic testing on Route 6 all the way to Milford, Jan. 4, 2009. Pittsburgh's WTAE-TV evening news coverage of how hydraulic fracturing has affected water in Western PA. River Reporter coverage of gas drilling over the last year and the list they published of fracking fluids. NY Times editorial about fracking near NYC's drinking water supply. Scientific American's assessment of the controversy around fracking technology and the EPA. Concerns of citizens groups in nearby Wayne County, PA and Binghamton, NY. Concerns of Delaware Riverkeeper Network and the Catskill Mountainkeepers about fracking in the Upper Delaware region. Endocrine Disruption website analysis of potential health risks from fracking. The visual impacts of hydraulic fracturing operations in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest. Learn what other citizens' groups are saying and doing the Oil and Gas Accountability Project in the Rocky Mountain states groups of Texas citizens in Fort Worth, Lake Worth, Bridlewood, and Flower Mound groups of Colorado citizens in Western Colorado, the HD Mountains, Grand Valley, the San Juan Basin, the Roan Plateau other grassroots citizens' groups in Wyoming, West Virginia, New Mexico, and Arkansas a family's day to day account of their experience of fracking in Colorado; video of personal experiences in Western PA. ---Visit www.twcwc.com/fracking.htm for live links to the above websites---