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Residents Urge St. Mary’s County and State to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing
Summary
Multiple residents and local groups urged commissioners to support a local and statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing, citing groundwater contamination, property‑value declines and risks to the Chesapeake Bay; Farm Bureau and others urged caution and noted regulatory differences.
Dozens of residents used a public forum in Leonardtown to press St. Mary’s County commissioners to support a local ban on hydraulic fracturing and to urge the county’s delegation in Annapolis to back statewide action.
Speakers representing conservation groups, watermen, educators and faith communities described fracking as a threat to local groundwater and the Chesapeake watershed. Rosa Hance of the Southern Maryland Sierra Club described fracking’s wastewater and said, "Fracking would destroy all of those efforts and…
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