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BREDL Clean Water Campaign
The Clean Water
Campaign is a program for community
organizing around contaminated
groundwater sites, prevention of the
weakening of 2L standards - with priority
on groundwater at the drinking water
level, and the blocking of dangerous
brownfields.
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The League comments on injection wells rulemaking
Jan. 13, 2012: The draft North Carolina rule on injection wells is the camel’s nose under the tent because it allows certain innocuous-sounding injection well practices to occur under a new permit-by-rule scheme, opening the door to others yet unspecified and potentially dangerous. Recently, North Carolina embarked on a program entitled “State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations,” aka STRONGER. However, we believe the regulatory trend embodied in the proposed draft rule would be under a different program: “Work Essentially Aimed at Killing Environmental Regulations;” that is, WEAKER.
Read BREDL Comments
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BREDL Statement on Hydrofracking
"The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League opposes shale gas extraction, also known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” Describing natural gas as a solution to America’s fossil fuel dependency is misleading and ignores real solutions like conservation, as well as truly clean energy like wind and solar power. Hydrofracking is fraught with environmental, public health, and economic problems. The extraction of the gas from the shale uses toxins injected underground, and releases radium, methane and radon gas which contaminate air, land and water. The gas industry has ignored community concerns and paved its way with campaign contributions and bully tactics, which has resulted in human misery, contamination, foreclosures and lawsuits. North Carolina’s public health, quality of life, and environment must not be sacrificed to this practice and the dirty money which comes with it. There is too much at stake."
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BREDL Comments on Raleigh request for groundwater regs variance
Nov. 5, 2007: BREDL comments
regarding the City of Raleigh's request for a variance from
groundwater regulations for the Neuse River Wastewater Treatment
Plant.
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