Our friends at Penn Future sent us the information below, and we're passing it on to any of you tree lovers that live in or work in or happen to be passing through Philadelphia on Wednesday....
Join us during your lunch hour as we conduct a demonstration to support our remarkable state forests. Currently the state legislature is moving forward with a budget plan that relies on new natural gas drilling leases on state forest land to cover the budget shortfall – threatening our public natural resources and compromising public access to our forest land.
We need forest heroes - our legislators and Governor Rendell must pledge not to support a budget that relies on drilling in forests. Instead, they need to enact a gas extraction impact fee to pay for the damage to natural resources and communities that drilling causes. Our legislators need to support the impact fee and the Save our Forests legislation (HB 2235), which puts a five year freeze on new deep natural gas drilling leases in state forests.
Gather your friends and come show your support for protecting our state forests.
Register today to attend the rally.
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Time: 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Location:
Gov. Rendell's Southeast Office
200 South Broad Street (near Broad & Walnut)
Philadelphia, PA 19102
If you'd like to attend this event you can RSVP online.
