Public Citizen was lucky enough to have been invited to the release of the new study Flowback: How Natural Gas Drilling in Texas Threatens Public Health and Safety. We had to split the press conference into three different pieces to get them uploaded, but here we get started with Sharon Wilson and State Rep. Lon Burnam of Ft Worth.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5byZatNW85o]
After that, several other folks dealing with the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing stepped up to the mic: Calvin Tillman, the Mayor of Dish, TX, a city at the heart of the frack debate, Tammi Vajda a resident of Flower Mound and Sister Elizabeth Riebschlaeger who lives on the Eagle Ford Shale, who absolutely brought the house down.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcnFpnARVV4]
The final clip features my remarks, which you can mostly fast forward through to get to Alyssa Burgin of the Texas Drought Project.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dziPeOX36xE]
We heartily recommend you read the report and call your legislators about the problems Texas faces with fracking. And special thanks to Donna Hoffman at the Sierra Club who took this video. You can check out their blog at texasgreenreport.wordpress.com
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