Advisory - Hydrofracking And Children - New Map To Be Released

Dec. 16, 2011 - PRLog -- MEDIA ADVISORY

Friday, December 16, 2011

For Information, Contact:
Claire Barnett – 518- 462-0632
Jeff Jones - 518-265-0719


Child Health Groups To Call for Robust Assessment of
Hydrofracking Health Impacts

Concerns About Children, School Drinking Water, Air Quality
to be Raised at Albany Press Conference Tuesday

State and national children’s advocates and child health groups will call on New York State officials to broaden their assessments of the impacts of high volume hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) as a method of tapping underground natural gas deposits to include child health impacts and impacts on schools.

           DATE:            Tuesday, December 20, 2011
           
TIME:                         10:00 AM Eastern
           
PLACE:           LCA Press Room 130, Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY

VISUAL:         New Map Shows Public Schools Using Private Well Water in the Proposed Marcellus Shale Hydraulic Fracturing Zone


“What concerns us the most is the lack of an in-depth look at how children will be affected by hydrofracking,” says Claire Barnett, executive director of the Healthy Schools Network. “We are pleased that New York has extended the public comment period and urge state officials to commit to producing an assessment of impacts on vulnerable children and on educational facilities.”