Can you light your tap water on fire?

After watching Burning Water and Gasland, two great documentaries about communities feeling the impacts of hydrofracturing (aka fracking), it is shocking to hear that a community in southern New Brunswick is experiencing the same thing. The Concerned Citizens of Penobsquis have been fighting for over 10 years for their drinking water.

Please take some time to go to Penobsquis.ca and learn more about their plight.

For more information about fracking, the Conservation Council of NB has prepared this primer on this issue. We hope that NB citizens will listen to their story and find some way to help the community while preventing it from happening across NB. The first step is to educate your friends and yourselves about the issue.

If you want to get involved check out the facebook group New Brunswickers Concerned About Shale Gas.

You can also keep up with the news through the NB Media Co-op.