Event at Library Focuses on Fracking and Other Issues in Region
Media Contact: Gail Philbin, gail.philbin@sierraclub.org
The Sierra Club Michigan Chapter
presents a screening of The Sky is Pink, a
short film about the controversial method of natural gas extraction known as
fracking, Wed., June 26, at 7 pm at the Traverse Area District Library, McGuire
Room, 610 Woodmere, Traverse City. The event is free and open to the public.
Grand Traverse-area
residents concerned about the quality of their water, air and natural resources
are invited to the screening, which will be followed by a discussion of important
regional environmental, legislative and political issues. Sierra Club staff and
volunteer leaders will present opportunities for concerned citizens to get
involved in environmental protection efforts in northwest Michigan.
To RSVP, email William
Strong at williamstrong@sbcglobal.net
or call 269-372-3642.
The Sky is Pink
is an 18-minute documentary by Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of Gasland, about
New York state’s urgent crisis of drilling and fracking, a brutal method of
extracting deep-seated natural gas that recently has come to northwest Michigan. Exempt from environmental regulations,
fracking blasts 3-7 million gallons of chemical-laced water into rock to
release gas. The result is air pollution
and toxic water wells that can produce flaming faucets, as shown in Gasland,
and even earthquakes.
The Sierra Club Michigan
Chapter has been working with legislators on a package of bills to delay its
actual practice in order to strengthen regulations to protect people from the
fallout of this dangerous process. Learn more at www.michigan.sierraclub.org/issues/greatlakes/Hydrofracking.html
For more information about
this event, email williamstrong@sbcglobal.net
or call 269-372-3642.
