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