Ccw presentation nations

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