Komen: Stop Your Partnership with Frackers
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Sponsor: The Breast Cancer Site
The world's largest breast cancer organization must revise their donor ethics!
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has gone too far.
In their quest for donations, Komen has agreed to a partnership with Baker Hughes, a fracking company1. Along with a $100,000 donation to Komen, Baker Hughes is distributing pink drill bits to their fracking sites2.
Fracking is a toxic practice. According the Concerned Health Professionals of New York, at least 25% of the more than 700 chemicals used in fracking are linked to cancer. As part of the fracking process, these chemicals are pumped into the earth3. If these chemicals reach natural water reservoirs, they can threaten public health4.
These pink drill bits are doing more to cause cancer than cure it.
Companies which flagrantly introduce carcinogens into our environment cannot expect that painting drill bits pink and giving a small donation can erase the damage they are doing to public health5.
Help us tell the leadership of this nonprofit that accepting donations from companies that destroy our environment and public health is not the best way to go about defeating breast cancer.
As the world's largest breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure must set the standard for donation ethics. If a donor represents a company or cause that spreads carcinogens in our communities, that donation must be refused!
Sign the petition and tell Susan G. Komen for the Cure to change its donor ethics now and end its partnership with companies that destroy the environment and public health!
- David Sirota, International Business Times (8 October 2014), "Anti-Cancer Susan G. Komen Foundation Accused of 'Pinkwashing' The Fracking Industry."
- Lindsay Abrams, Salon (8 October 2014), "Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits "for the cure"."
- Lauren Vogel, Canadian Medical Association Journal (16 January 2017), "Fracking tied to cancer-causing chemicals."
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Scientific American (4 April 2016), "Fracking Can Contaminate Drinking Water."
- Julia Lurie, Mother Jones (9 October 2014), "Fracking Chemicals, Brought to You by Susan G. Komen."
The Petition:
To the CEO of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure,
I am shocked to discover that you have allowed and approved a partnership between your nonprofit and fracking company Baker Hughes.
These pink drill bits are doing more to cause cancer than cure it.
I know that you are aware that fracking is detrimental to both our environment and the public health. According the Concerned Health Professionals of New York, at least 25% of the more than 700 chemicals used in fracking are linked to cancer. As part of the fracking process, these chemicals are pumped into the earth. If these chemicals reach natural water reservoirs, they can threaten public health.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure should not be allying itself with donors that represent companies or causes that spread carcinogens in our communities. Accepting donations from companies that destroy our environment and public health is not the best way to go about defeating breast cancer. As the world's largest breast cancer organization, you must set the standard for donation ethics. If a donor represents a company or cause that spreads carcinogens in our communities, you must refuse the donation!
Please change your donor ethics now.
Sincerely,
