Email #7

Dear Harriet

Im going to keep it short today, as its Sunday, and Im just waiting for my eldest to finish getting dressed so that we can go to Church.  After Church we are going to spend a couple of hours at the local SSI wetland centre.  My boys do love the park there!

Our environment is important to us.  We live just outside a SSI National Park, in fact most of our constituency is this National Park.  We also have two SSI Coastal areas within easy reach of us.  It really is a beautiful place to live.  So I want to talk to you about fracking.  Fracking has been proven to pollute water- which is hardly suprising since the process involved uses up to 600 chemicals including carcinogens and toxins such as mercury, lead, uranium, ethylene glycol, radium, methanol, hydrochloric acid and formaldehyde.  This process causes methane gas and toxic chemicals to leach into nearby groundwater, causing methane concentration in drinking water levels to increase by 17x.

In America 1000 documented cases have been found where sensory, respiratory and neurological damage can be traced back to fracking where people have ingested contaminated water.  50-70% of the toxic chemicals are left behind as part of the process and is not biodegradable.

This could have a profound impact of the species and habitats in my area, and across the rest of the country, as well as having a profound impact on the people of this country.

In this case would the end product really be worth all the damage?

I dont think so.

We need to care about our environment, We need to be opposed to fracking and the damage it will cause our beautiful areas and our people.  We need to CARE.

And we need our NHS to stay public.  Because if fracking is allowed to happen and people start to suffer they will need an NHS to turn to.

We need socialism because we need to care about how each action we take as communities and as a nation will have on the very people who make up our communities and our country.

Please listen.  Your party members are in the main opposed to fracking.  And we want a return to socialism that looks after our people and our environment.  And we want a socialism that takes care of our people when they need it.

Protect the NHS.  Protect the environement.  Stand up for socialism and the core principles upon which the Labour party was founded.

Constituent, Labour Party member, union member, sleep deprived carer, concerned citizen, self employed mother, mother of a teenager with ASD, socialist, environmentalist

http://www.dangersoffracking.com/
https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/campaign/fracking?gclid=Cj0KEQjw18-rBRDogrTg4Lusuu0BEiQACs8YQuo65IwVoWiQCYwR1Dt_3_9kcLTz9FZzDu5PiMdjVr0aAtRT8P8HAQ