Don’t Frack Maryland brings together a diverse group of public interest organizations, labor groups, businesses, and faith communities from across Maryland and the United States. We are committed to passing a permanent, statewide fracking ban in Maryland.
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Position Statement:
Concerned by the rapidly expanding evidence of harm and the growing uncertainties caused by unconventional natural gas development and production, we, the undersigned organizations, call for a statewide ban on high-volume hydraulic fracturing, “fracking,” in Maryland.
The state’s current two-year moratorium fails to allow sufficient time for analysis of long-term or cumulative health effects. The emerging science on shorter-latency effects is showing significant threats that would affect the health and safety of Marylanders, and the quality of our air, water, and soil. Citing significant public health risks, including those documented in Maryland’s own health study, New York officials announced in 2014 that they would ban hydraulic fracturing in the State. Maryland, too, should proactively protect the health of its residents.
As dozens of business owners and food industry professionals told Maryland policymakers in 2015, fracking could cause irreparable damage to our state’s unique tourism and sustainable agriculture economies. There is no evidence that this risky practice can be made safe by best practices or state regulations; only an outright ban can protect Maryland’s health and economy.
Based on what we now know, we believe that fracking endangers public health and is the wrong approach to protect the robust Maryland economy and build a clean, sustainable energy future. We urge Maryland’s legislature to pass a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing.
Maryland Organizations
1000 Friends of Maryland
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East – Maryland/DC Division
350 MoCo
Accokeek, Mattawoman, Piscataway Creeks Communities Council
Allegany & Garrett Counties’ Bird Club
Anacostia Watershed Society
Audubon Maryland-DC
Audubon Naturalist Society
Baltimore Bird Club
Baltimore County Green Party
Baltimore Free Farm
Baltimore Green Space
Baltimore Hoop Love
Beloved Community Church
Calvert Citizens for a Healthy Community
Calvert Interfaith Council
Carroll County Bird Club
Central Maryland Ecumenical Council
Citizen Shale
Citizens for the Preservation of Middletown Valley
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Chesapeake Citizens
Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility
Chesapeake Sustainable Business Council
Clean Water Linganore, Inc.
Cleaner Water Foundation
Climate Stewards of Greater Annapolis
Consumer Mom LLC
Country Parson Honey
Don’t Frack Western Maryland
Dream House
Ecumencial Leaders Group of Maryland
Environment Maryland
Environmental Integrity Project
Envision Frederick County
Frack-Free Frostburg
Friends of the Nanticoke River
Fox Haven Farm & Learning Center
Greater Accokeek Civic Association
Greater Baden-Aquasco Citizens Association
Greenbelt Climate Action Network
Gunpowder Garden Club
Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER
Hamilton Hills Neighborhood Association
Harford County Bird Club
Harford County Climate Action
Heckel Farm
Heritage Interiors LLC
HoCo Climate Change
Homewood Friends Meeting
Husky Power Dogsledding
Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA)
League of Women Voters Maryland
Maryland Environmental Health Network
Maryland League of Conservation Voters
Maryland Native Plant Society
Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association
Maryland Ornithological Society
Maryland United for Peace and Justice
Mattawoman Watershed Societ
McGuire Fine Arts
Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy
Moms Clean Air Force Maryland
Montgomery County Green Party
Montgomery County Progressive Alliance
Montgomery County Young Democrats
Mountain Maryland Kennels, LLC
Mt. Enon Baptist Church
Myersville Citizens for a Rural Community
National Organization for Women, Maryland
P.A. Bowen Farmstead
Paint Branch UUC Green Team
Patuxent Riverkeeper
PM Press
Potomac Pathways
Potomac Riverkeeper Network
Prince George’s County Peace & Justice Coalition
Progressive Democrats of Maryland
Progressive Neighbors
Riverbend Estates Neighborhood Association
Riderwood Residents Supporting Sustainability
Rochdale Initiatives
Savage River Angler, LLC
Savage River Watershed Association
Save Western Maryland
Severn Riverkeeper
Sierra Club, Maryland Chapter
South River Federation
Spring Creek Outfitters
Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna
Strawser Brookview Farm
Ten Oaks Community Association
The Harvest Collective
Tierra Vista
Tomandy Art Gallery
Transition Howard County
Tri-County Bird Club
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of MD
Upper Potomac Riverkeeper
Waterkeepers Chesapeake
We Are Cove Point
Western Maryland Professional Guides Association
Youghiogheny River Watershed Association
National Organizations
350.org
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Breast Cancer Action
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Health, Environment & Justice
Earthworks
Energy Justice Network
Environmental Action
Food & Water Watch
Frack Action
Friends of the Earth
Green America
National Nurses United
Oil Change International
Organic Consumers Association
Popular Resistance
Progressive Democrats of America
Rachel Carson Council
Rainforest Action Network
Voices for a Sustainable Future
Waterkeeper Alliance
Regional/Other Organizations
Berks Gas Truth
Beyond Extreme Energy
Cahaba Riverkeeper
Chesapeake Earth First!
Delaware Riverkeeper
District of Columbia Audubon Society
FANG: Fighting Against Natural Gas
Friends of Penobscot Bay
Friends of the Harmed
Great March for Climate Action
Green Party of Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Gas Truth
Marcellus Outreach Butler
Marcellus Protest
Mountain Watershed Association
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE)
Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont
Peoples’ Action for a Safe Environment
RIVERKEEPER
SEED: Stopping Extraction and Exports Destruction
Upper Burrell Citizens Against Marcellus Pollution
Westmoreland Marcellus Citizens’ Group