Stop the Starved Rock frac sand mine

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From: "Ashley Williams" <moveon-help@list.moveon.org>
Date: Jun 18, 2013 4:02 PM
Subject: Stop the Starved Rock frac sand mine
To: "Daniel A. Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

Below is an email from Ashley Williams, a MoveOn member in Ottawa, Illinois. Ashley started a petition on the MoveOn website, where anyone can start their own online petition.

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Dear Oak Brook MoveOn member,

Mississippi Sand, LLC, hopes to make LaSalle County into a kind of frac sand mecca. And like so many citizens in my area, I'm terrified of what is in store for us!

Mississippi Sand has laid claim to our world-renowned Starved Rock State Park, where they hope to blast apart the St. Peter sandstone bluffs and mine for up to 40 years.

The Sierra Club, Prairie Rivers Network, and Openlands are embroiled in a lawsuit to challenge Mississippi Sand's mining permit. We must support them and stop Mississippi from opening up the proposed pit!

That's why I started a petition to Governor Pat Quinn, which says:

Illinois is quickly being overtaken by fracking juggernauts, which have no aim but the profit motive. Despite those who believe the Starved Rock frac sand mine will prove beneficial, in truth, sand mining for the purpose of hydraulic fracturing will result in calamitous long-term repercussions for Starved Rock State Park's tourism, local residents, and animals' and peoples' health (silicosis, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, etc.), as well as the overall environment. I want to see a greener, more energy-independent horizon for LaSalle County, and for Illinois and America at large, but this debasement is not the way!

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Ashley Williams

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