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Education is the issue at the Florida Association of Counties‘ 2015 Annual Conference in Ponte Vedra June 16-19.
The anti-fracking Coalition rented a table for the length of the conference. Yesterday OSFR president Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, Amalie Datz along with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Silvestri delivered educational materials, signs and banners to the site and erected the information booth.
The booth will be manned throughout the four-day conference, with constant contact and distribution. It is hard to believe but true that many commissioners have little concept of the destruction that results from fracking. Even of those who do, many feel that it is not a threat to Florida, and are unaware that wastewater is often trucked hundreds of miles for dumping.
Progress is happening, as can be seen by the following impressive list.
Put the Right to Clean Water Amendment on the 2022 ballot