The following was written by Jack Darin, director of the Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter.
The prospect of the gas industry coming Illinois to extract gas
from beneath our state using high-volume hydraulic fracturing has caused
a great deal of controversy and concern, especially in parts of
Illinois where leasing for drilling rights has been underway for well
over a year. Horror stories from other states about open pits of toxic
wastewater, secret brews of toxins injected into the earth, air
emissions sickening neighbors, and contaminated drinking water are just a
few of the impacts seen elsewhere. Read more »
More than 100 protesters descended on the Illinois Statehouse in
Springfield yesterday to rally against a regulatory bill and call for a
moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in Illinois.
