Many of us are very concerned about the desire to begin fracking in the central and southern areas of our state.

I ask you to seriously consider contacting your state representatives, Mike Smiddy at 309-848-9098 (email repsmiddy@gmail.com) and Tom Demmer at 217-782-0535 (email rep@tomdemmer.com); and your state senators, Mike Jacobs at 309-797-0001 or Tim Bivins at 815-284-0045.

Urge them to co-sponsor a moratorium on fracking with a provision for an independent, science-based investigative task force this legislative session. Let’s not start something that could cause tremendous harm.