It only takes one councillor to put an issue on the Fredericton City Council agenda. Please consider taking a minute and e-mail/mail this letter to your ward councillor. This letter-writing campaign is necessary since formal requests by the Friends of the UNB Woodlot to present to Council have been repeatedly denied (two more rejections just in the past week). You can download this pdf document, and (1) cut-and-paste the text into an e-mail, or (2) print, and mail a hard-copy letter to your councillor (a list of councillors, their mailing addresses, and a map of the ward is also included). http://www.slideshare.net/friendsoftheunbwoodlot/form-letter-to-fredericton-ward-councillors-ward-map-sept-23-2011 The Friends of the UNB Woodlot are asking City Council to call for a stop to shale gas development and lobby the Province for watershed-based source protection of our drinking water. Not only will these measures help protect your drinking water, but they will also give more protection to forest wetlands like the UNB Woodlot from short-sighted piecemeal development that is destroying this valuable teaching and research forest. Our councillors have been elected to act on the concerns of the wards that they represent. By sending the enclosed letter to your Councillor, you can make your voice be heard. Please help make a difference by speaking up about this important resource that we cannot live without. P.S. Feel free to pass this on to anyone who lives in Fredericton - apartment renters and home owners alike.

1. DATE: _____________________________
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Dear Councillor _______________________________,
RE: FREDERICTON DRINKING WATER PROTECTION Google
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I am deeply concerned about the recent knowledge that our watersheds and aquifer are literally surrounded
by a 10-kilometre area of shale gas exploration in all directions. Even though I realize that Fredericton boasts
a Wellfield Protection Area, this does not reassure me that our drinking water is adequately protected.
The Wellfield Protection Area now in place involves a fairly small recharge area within our municipal boundaries
(Prospect Street is one such boundary), which does not include forested wetlands and watersheds that also
contribute to our aquifer. To truly protect our drinking water we need to implement watershed-based source
protection, similar to that of the Province of Ontario which was put in place after the Walkerton disaster. Formal
requests by the Friends of the UNB Woodlot to speak to Council on this matter have been repeatedly denied.
Under your municipal procedures, "a Member of Council may introduce any item of business to a
regular meeting of the Council." 1 Members of City Council have a duty of care to inform themselves
that there is no drinking water protection in place based on watershed boundaries.
Therefore, I ask you to allow the Friends of the UNB Woodlot to make a presentation to City Council. This
group has prepared a presentation that highlights many concerns regarding source water protection of our
drinking water used by the City of Fredericton.
I have recently learned that on October 1, 2011, the City of Fredericton voted against a moratorium that
would have banned all testing and fracking until the province is satisfied that if can be done safely. How can
our city say shale gas is too dangerous for their own citizens, yet help defeat the moratorium that would support
affected cities, towns, and villages elsewhere in the province? The final vote by the Union of the Municipalities
of New Brunswick (UMNB) narrowly defeated the moratorium 22-to-18. And we understand that a city has no
control over exploration under their city limits; a gas company can locate a well pad outside the city and
drill horizontally for distances of 1 kilometre or more inside our municipal boundaries. Even if drilling is kept
outside the city limits, industry & government studies show that hydraulic fracturing create fractures that can
spread up to 2,500 feet underground, and can open up natural, pre-existing fractures in the bedrock.
I strongly believe that The City of Fredericton needs to take action and consider the following three resolutions:
(1) to ban shale gas development from city limits;
(2) to ask the Province of New Brunswick to implement watershed-based source
protection for our drinking water sources; and
(3) to ask the Province of New Brunswick, as well as the Union of the Municipalities
of New Brunswick (UMNB), to ban shale gas development.
Thank you for your attention to this public safety and health issue. Watershed-based drinking water protection,
and a ban on shale gas exploration and development, would extend the best possible protection of everyone's
drinking water in Fredericton and the Province of New Brunswick.
Sincerely yours, Print name: ___________________________________
Address: ____________________________________
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1 (page 30, City of Fredericton By-law No. A-2, By-law Respecting Administration and the City Council,
Section 27.03 (3) – http://www.fredericton.ca/en/citygovernment/resources/Bylaws-Admin-A2.pdf).

2. WARD MAP - http://www.fredericton.ca/en/citygovernment/wardsmap.asp
Dan
Keenan,
Councillor
Bruce
Grandy,
Councillor
Michael
O'Brien,
Councillor
Ward:
One
(Douglas
Area)
Ward:
Two
(Nashwaaksis
Area)
Ward:
Three
(Fulton
Address:
237
Manresa
Drive,
Address:
19
Sierra
Drive,
Heights/North
Devon
Area)
Fredericton,
NB,
E3A
9S9
Fredericton,
NB,
E3A
5K3
Address:
592
Broad
Street,
dan.keenan@fredericton.ca
bruce.grandy@fredericton.ca
Fredericton
NB,
E3A
2L8
mike.obrien@fredericton.ca
Eric
Megarity,
Councillor
Steven
Hicks,
Councillor
Marilyn
Kerton,
Councillor
Ward:
Four
(South
Devon
Area)
Ward:
Five
(Marysville)
Ward:
Six
(Barker's
Point
Area)
Address:
50
Ashfield
Street,
Address:
25
Coronation
Street,
Address:
18
Davenport
Street,
Fredericton,
NB,
E3A
3E9
Fredericton,
NB,
E3A
4K5
Fredericton,
NB,
E3A
3W5
eric.megarity@fredericton.ca
steven.hicks@fredericton.ca
marilyn.kerton@fredericton.ca
Scott
McConaghy,
Councillor
Tony
Whalen,
Councillor
Stephen
Chase,
Councillor
Ward:
Seven
(Lincoln
Area)
Ward:
Eight
(Skyline
Acres
Area)
Ward:
Nine
(Odell
Park/Parkside
Address:
385
Wetmore
Road,
Address:
P.O.
Box
130,
Fredericton,
Drive
Area)
Fredericton,
NB,
E3B
5L4
NB,
E3B
4Y7
Address:
807
Mitchell
Street,
scott.mcconaghy@fredericton.ca
tony.whalen@fredericton.ca
Fredericton,
NB,
E3B
6E8
stephen.chase@fredericton.ca
Stephen
Kelly,
Councillor
Jordan
Graham,
Councillor
David
Kelly,
Councillor
Ward:
Ten
(Sunshine
Ward:
Eleven
(UNB/East
End
Ward:
Twelve
Gardens/West
End)
Area)
(Silverwood/Garden
Creek
Area)
Address:
35
Brookmount
Court,
Address:
348
York
Street,
Address:
128
Golf
Club
Road,
Fredericton,
NB,
E3B
2N4
Fredericton,
NB,
E3B
3P4
Fredericton,
NB,
E3B
5M6
stephen.kelly@fredericton.ca
jordan.graham@fredericton.ca
david.kelly@fredericton.ca