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Clean Water, Public Lands, and Gas and Oil Fracking
James D. NationsFifth Annual
Choose Clean Water ConferenceJune 4, 2014
Fracking for natural gas and oil
Fracking on Federal Lands
Gas & Oil Fracking and National Parks
Marcellus Shale Formation
River Kayaking, Delaware Water Gap (PA-NJ) photo: Christian Heeb
Fracking and Water
Delaware River Basin
Grand Teton National Park (WY) photo: J. Nations
Big South Fork NRA (TN-KY) photo: Willard Clay
Wild Goose Island, Glacier National Park (MT) photo: Val Bakhtin
“We prefer the myth when it conflicts with the facts,
mostly because there’s more money in it.”
Richard Manning Rewilding the West
(2009: 59)
National Parks and Hydraulic Fracturing:
Balancing Energy Needs, Nature, and America’s National Heritage
National Parks Conservation Association2013
npca.org/about-us/center-for-park-research/fracking/fracking-report