Citizens’ Alliance for a Pristine Perinton (CAPP) is an organization of members of the Perinton, New York community. We live here, we own or rent our homes here, here we attend Perinton’s schools and houses of worship, we walk its pristine parks and trails, we recreate on and along our beautiful Erie Canal, Thomas Creek, Irondequoit Creek, White Brook and other waterways, and we vote and otherwise participate in the great civic enterprise of our American Democracy. We are authors, economists, historians, leadership development, special needs education, higher education, law, the graphic arts, information technology, advertising, historic preservation, and the health sciences. We are of all ages, and all political and spiritual convictions, ethnicities, and genders – we are a spectrum alliance reflecting all Perinton citizens.
We want to protect our Town of Perinton from the potentially devastating effects of the practice of horizontal hydrofrack drilling for fossil shale gas that has been discovered deep below our region. The potential ravages on our environment and our health unleashed by horizontal hydrofracking, also called ‘fracking’, have been well documented throughout 36 US States and in many other parts of the world.