Friday, September 14, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Stefanie Spear
More
than 5,000 people from all over the nation, and various parts of the
world including Australia, united today on the West lawn of the U.S.
Capitol demanding Congress take immediate action to stop fracking. After
the rally that began at 2 p.m., rally participants marched for more
than one hour, stopping at the headquarters of the America’s Natural Gas
Alliance and American Petroleum Institute.People impacted by fracking in their communities joined forces with 136 local and national organizations to call on Congress to Stop the Frack Attack and protect Americans from the dangerous impacts of fracking.
Rally speakers included, Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org; Josh Fox, producer of Gasland; Calvin Tillman, former mayor of Dish, Texas; Allison Chin, board president of the Sierra Club, and community members from swing states affected by fracking.
“As the increasingly bizarre weather across the planet and melting ice on Greenland makes clear, at this point we’ve got no choice but to keep fossil fuels underground. Fracking to find more is the worst possible idea,” said McKibben.
“The
amazing thing about this problem is that there’s a solution… We know
that we can run the world on renewable energy. We know that we can run
the world on the wind. And today, we have a reminder that we can run the
world on the sun,” said Fox.Today’s rally was part of the first national event to stop the frack attack. The rally is the culmination of three days of training to further escalate the movement to stop abuse by the fossil fuel industry. Large groups from swing states including Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania and North Carolina attended the training and rally to make sure that fracking is a key part of the upcoming election.
“Just weeks ago in North Carolina, our legislature ripped up decades of groundwater protections for rural drinking water, in order to allow fracking and invite in dirty industry campaign dollars. So we add our voices to the national movement calling on Congress to protect our homes, our drinking water and our health by repealing the 2005 oil and gas exemptions,” said Hope Taylor, a farmer near Durham and executive director of Clean Water for NC.
Rally
participants have three key demands: an end to dirty and dangerous
fracking, closure of the seven legal loopholes that let frackers in the
oil and gas industry ignore the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, and full enforcement of existing laws to protect families and communities from the effects of fracking.“It is time for us to come together as a people and let the law makers that work for us know that we are tired of being run over by the out-of-control oil and gas industry,” said Tillman.
While at the headquarters of America’s Natural Gas Alliance, rally organizers delivered six jugs of contaminated water in hazmat suits and then headed to the American Petroleum Institute where a 20-foot-high mock oil rig was smashed to the ground.
This event was a launching point for the movement, and will be followed by events in Albany, NY on Aug. 25, Philadelphia on Sept. 20 and Sept. 21, and subsequent events in other states and regions affected by fracking.
To see additional photos from the Stop the Frack Attack rally and march, visit EcoWatch’s Facebook page.
Visit EcoWatch’s FRACKING page for more related news on this topic.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
July 28, 2012 Washington DC
To citizens, communities and organizations: NOW IS THE TIME TO USE OUR COLLECTIVE POWER TO END OIL AND GAS DRILLING THAT HARMS PUBLIC HEALTH, WATER AND AIR QUALITY.
Join us at the Nation's Capitol in Washington DC as people from across the country--from California to New York, from North Dakota to Texas--will converge on the US Capitol to tell Congress, the President and the world to end the rush to drill and STOP THE FRACK ATTACK!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
New Yorkers Against Fracking CALL TO ACTION MAY 15
NEW YORKERS AGAINST FRACKING: An Urgent Call To Action
A Concert Event Featuring: Medeski Martin & Wood, Natalie Merchant, Citizen Cope, The Felice Brothers, Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Dan Zanes, Ida, The Horse Flies, The Ahkwesasne Women Singers
Hosted by Mark Ruffalo & Melissa Leo
Tuesday, May 15 Albany, New York
Rally 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. West Capitol Lawn
Concert 7:00 p.m. The Egg: Center For Performing Arts
Ticket Information: 518 473-1845 / www.theegg.org
A Concert Event Featuring: Medeski Martin & Wood, Natalie Merchant, Citizen Cope, The Felice Brothers, Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Dan Zanes, Ida, The Horse Flies, The Ahkwesasne Women Singers
Hosted by Mark Ruffalo & Melissa Leo
Tuesday, May 15 Albany, New York
Rally 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. West Capitol Lawn
Concert 7:00 p.m. The Egg: Center For Performing Arts
Ticket Information: 518 473-1845 / www.theegg.org
Tuesday, May 15, a concerned group of New York-based artists will participate in a rally and multi-media concert event in Albany to educate the public on the dangers of hydraulic fracturing and call on Governor Cuomo to ban the controversial natural gas drilling process in New York State. Musicians include: Medeski Martin & Wood, Natalie Merchant, Citizen Cope, The Felice Brothers, Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Dan Zanes, Ida, The Horse Flies, and The Ahkwesasne Women Singers. Academy Award nominated actor Mark Ruffalo and Academy Award winning actress Melissa Leo will be official hosts of the evening. All of the artists involved make New York State their home and are committed to keeping it fracking-free. The official rally will begin at 4:00 on The West Capitol Lawn and will be followed by the concert at The Egg: Center For Performing Arts at 7:00.
Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) will capture the musical performances, films, speeches and testimonials given by scientists, authors, economists, politicians and activists, on hydraulic fracturing.
This unique show is the brainchild of New Yorkers Against Fracking, a new coalition of diverse grassroots, state-wide organizations that have joined together with the common goal of banning hydrofracking in New York State. These organizations agree that this extreme gas drilling method will cause irreversible damage to the environment and public health.
Acclaimed ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. (Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis) will be on hand to share her experience and expertise on the issue. Steingraber is internationally recognized for her work uncovering and understanding the ways in which chemical contaminants in the air, water, and food endanger human health. An in demand public speaker and cancer survivor, she first gained recognition with her modern classic, Living Downstream, which was recently adapted to a biographical film of the same name. She used the prize money she received for her 2011 Heinz Award to help form New Yorkers Against Fracking.
Shale Gas Hydrofracking (Fracking) is a means of injecting millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under enormous pressure into dense shale rock formations to release natural gas. This process has caused major environmental damage in the communities where it has been allowed to take place. Opponents of fracking cite leaks and accidents that ruin groundwater, contaminating it with carcinogens, neurotoxins, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and natural gas itself. They also point out that the drilling causes massive land scarring, air pollution, truck traffic, and miles and miles of pipeline construction.
“Fracking is wrong,” says Steingraber. “Sooner or later, steel and cement disintegrate. Sooner or later, gas wells open portals of contamination between drinking water aquifers and the toxic materials held in the bedrock below. Doing fracking ‘right’ simply means building time bombs with longer fuses. There are no places in New York and no children in New York that we are willing to sacrifice.”
“I'm terrified of what may happen to my home state if hydraulic fracturing begins,” says Natalie Merchant. “Significant parts of rural New York will be sacrificed for relatively short-term gain in exchange for long-term degradation and contamination. Our most critical resource: WATER, both on the surface and underground will be endangered.”
Presented by New Yorkers Against Fracking in Partnership with the Finger Lakes CleanWaters Initiative, Inc.
This concert is powered in part by the wind due to a Wind Energy Donation compliments of Community Energy.
www.NYAgainstFracking.org
www.FingerLakesCleanWaters.org
For more information, please contact Alex Levy or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.
Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) will capture the musical performances, films, speeches and testimonials given by scientists, authors, economists, politicians and activists, on hydraulic fracturing.
This unique show is the brainchild of New Yorkers Against Fracking, a new coalition of diverse grassroots, state-wide organizations that have joined together with the common goal of banning hydrofracking in New York State. These organizations agree that this extreme gas drilling method will cause irreversible damage to the environment and public health.
Acclaimed ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. (Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis) will be on hand to share her experience and expertise on the issue. Steingraber is internationally recognized for her work uncovering and understanding the ways in which chemical contaminants in the air, water, and food endanger human health. An in demand public speaker and cancer survivor, she first gained recognition with her modern classic, Living Downstream, which was recently adapted to a biographical film of the same name. She used the prize money she received for her 2011 Heinz Award to help form New Yorkers Against Fracking.
Shale Gas Hydrofracking (Fracking) is a means of injecting millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under enormous pressure into dense shale rock formations to release natural gas. This process has caused major environmental damage in the communities where it has been allowed to take place. Opponents of fracking cite leaks and accidents that ruin groundwater, contaminating it with carcinogens, neurotoxins, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and natural gas itself. They also point out that the drilling causes massive land scarring, air pollution, truck traffic, and miles and miles of pipeline construction.
“Fracking is wrong,” says Steingraber. “Sooner or later, steel and cement disintegrate. Sooner or later, gas wells open portals of contamination between drinking water aquifers and the toxic materials held in the bedrock below. Doing fracking ‘right’ simply means building time bombs with longer fuses. There are no places in New York and no children in New York that we are willing to sacrifice.”
“I'm terrified of what may happen to my home state if hydraulic fracturing begins,” says Natalie Merchant. “Significant parts of rural New York will be sacrificed for relatively short-term gain in exchange for long-term degradation and contamination. Our most critical resource: WATER, both on the surface and underground will be endangered.”
Presented by New Yorkers Against Fracking in Partnership with the Finger Lakes CleanWaters Initiative, Inc.
This concert is powered in part by the wind due to a Wind Energy Donation compliments of Community Energy.
www.NYAgainstFracking.org
www.FingerLakesCleanWaters.org
For more information, please contact Alex Levy or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Examining Shale Gas Hype: April 25
Financial Analyst Deborah Rogers
Founder of Energy Policy Forum
Spells out the economic and investment realities
of hydraulic fracturing for gas
"In Their Own Words: Examining Shale Gas Hype"
Former Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney financial consultant
Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas Advisory Committee Member, 2008-2011
Oil and Gas Accountability Project, member since 2011
Farmer and owner of Deborah's Farmstead Artisanal Cheese
Wednesday, April 25, 7pm
Free and open to the public
Foothills Performing Arts Center
24 Market Street, Oneonta
Sponsors include:
Ommegang Brewery, Otsego 2000, Ed & Vicky Lentz,
Franklin Local, Sustainable Otsego, DAG-Delaware Action Group
For further information contact: Gene Marner, 607 829 8451
Founder of Energy Policy Forum
Spells out the economic and investment realities
of hydraulic fracturing for gas
"In Their Own Words: Examining Shale Gas Hype"
Former Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney financial consultant
Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas Advisory Committee Member, 2008-2011
Oil and Gas Accountability Project, member since 2011
Farmer and owner of Deborah's Farmstead Artisanal Cheese
Wednesday, April 25, 7pm
Free and open to the public
Foothills Performing Arts Center
24 Market Street, Oneonta
Sponsors include:
Ommegang Brewery, Otsego 2000, Ed & Vicky Lentz,
Franklin Local, Sustainable Otsego, DAG-Delaware Action Group
For further information contact: Gene Marner, 607 829 8451
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