Water Sanctuary Declared as Fracking Encroaches on WV Town

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Images: Frackban.Org, Water Weekend

As oil and gas companies suck every last carbon resource out of American landscapes, natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has left behind deadly poisons in waters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and other states.

Water Sanctuary Declared in Berkeley Springs WV 2-22-12

“George Washington, then-future President of the United States of America, did lay out the newly chartered Town of Bath as this country's first resort spa, surrounding the famous Berkeley Springs, around which the town was built, and which springs have been permanently protected within the 4.5 acre Berkeley Springs State Park."


To prevent fracking from coming too close to the precious and special water resources of this Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia, yesterday in Bath, West Virginia, aka Berkeley Springs, at Morgan County Courthouse, Feb. 22, 2012, at 2:22 PM, citizens clamored for sanity and a stop to fracking, which is encroaching from western counties.

The group will continue its protest outside the 22nd Annual Berkeley Springs Water Tasting, Sat. Feb. 25 from 9AM to 5PM. Join us on the sidewalk across from The Country Inn on Highway 522.

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(Above right, Dina Coe)


How long would it take to stop subsidizing the oil industry and start instead subsidizing and encourating development of wind, solar, geothermal, sea water, and other ways to generate power that don't involve oil and gas pillaging for short term profit at a long term cost?


(At left Russell Ratliff)


(Steve Kaldes above waves United States of Corporate America flag)

(We will publish full text of the declaration with coverage of
Saturday 2-25 events here at CofA9 next week.)

Instead of the USA developing a sustained energy program, even President Barack Obama buys into natural gas extraction by "safe fracking" as an energy source the U.S.A. needs until it can develop alternative energy, per his State of the Union address this year and Democratic party conventional wisdom. He sounds like another politician beholden to oil and gas gazillion dollar campaign donations.



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from the Event in Berkeley Springs Feb 22, 2012, at 2:22 PM

(At left, Lois Walton signs the Statement)



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At left activist, Laura Steepleton, right, Tim Newton, of Community Garden Market


Ray Goodman AKA Abe Lincoln at left is a favorite photo subject for City of Angels



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(At Right Thomas Diehl of Hedgesville)





To Read the Proclamation and Watch Video of Charlie Sullivan Declaring It, click link to Morgan County USA reported by Russell Mokhiber.

“George Washington, then-future President of the United States of America, did lay out the newly chartered Town of Bath as this country's first resort spa," stated Sullivan, "surrounding the famous Berkeley Springs, around which the town was built, and which springs have been permanently protected within the 4.5 acre Berkeley Springs State Park.”

John Webster introduced Sullivan who read A Declaration Of Community Water Rights And Heritage that participants then signed.



A landowner's only recourse is to sue for damages after the fact, and renters have no rights at all, thanks to laws rushed through state and national legislatures, such as the Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act introduced, debated, and passed in a matter of weeks in the West Virginia state legistlature November 2011.




(At right, Faces in the Crowd)


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John Webster, at left, organized the event with frackban.org



Photos by Kay Ebeling, Producer, City of Angels Network
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