Remember that little things can count for lots!

The deadline for comments on the fracking in the Karoo were due by 5th April, but please don't stop sending them in and letting them know that we are not going to stand aside and let them destroy what is left of our natural planet!
Please see my other blog articles for more info on how you can help - including a letter you can just copy and send to the relevent people:
Prevent your backyard from being fracked up!
Copy this letter and send it to the ministers and portfolio committees listed 
And an inspiring one about a pristine piece of nature that was saved from mining and is now a World Heritage Site:
http://pixoftheweek.blogspot.com/2011/04/so-large-we-cant-miss.html 

What is fracking?
Fracking is short for ‘hydraulic fracturing’, a way of breaking up rock deep underground using millions of litres of water, sand and chemicals pumped deep into the earth under high pressure. This creates cracks in the rock, releasing the gas. The gas is called methane, but some people call it shale gas or natural gas.  

Why should you be worried?
In America, which has been using this fracking technique for the longest time, major problems are emerging.
Exposure to fracking chemicals has been found to be extremely hazardous. In one famous case, reported on by a US Government watchdog organisation in 2008, a Colorado nurse nearly died of organ failure after being exposed to a worker who had been soaked in fracking liquids. Even while she was on the brink of death, the company refused to divulge what chemicals she had been exposed to. She still doesn’t know.
Since 2004 nearly 1000 incidents of water pollution from fracking have been recorded where chemicals or methane have contaminated water in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Ohio, New Mexico and Arizona.

Remember that the little things count for so much more than we can imagine - including your little email or fax or siganture on a petition!

Thanks for caring!