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Since Obama’s Green Light for Hydro-Fracking: Lots of Protest

All of these anti-fracking actions happened in the week since Obama’s pro-gas climate speech!

Share this if you stand with friends on the shale fields fighting for their survival from the onslaught of fracking — and with friends everywhere standing up against extreme energy. Real climate leadership looks like a U-turn on fracking!

From top-left, clockwise:

Fearless Summer reports hydro-fracking protests across the nation since Obama gave the green light to methane gas fracking.
Fearless Summer reports hydro-fracking protests across the nation since Obama gave the green light to methane gas fracking.

-People with Food & Water Watch, New Jersey occupied the office of State Senator Gerald Cardinale to reject natural gas as a bridge fuel.

-New York residents showed up at the NYC Plaza Hotel fundraiser to tell Governor Cuomo they support a ban on fracking – with Food & Water Watch.

-Massachusetts residents with 350 Massachusettsdelivered a petition with nearly 10,000 signatures for a ban on fracking to their state house.

– Six Maine residents were arrested while blockading trains full of fracked oil from the Bakken shale fields – with350 Maine & EFMaine.

– Friends in PA gathered in the Loyalsock State Forest to stand in solidarity against the fracking that is planned for those woods – follow Shadbush Environmental Justice Collective, Rising Tide Philly, Shale Shock, and RDA for more updates (http://bitly.com/bundles/lrigell1/1.

– Folks with Occupy the Pipeline took to the streets to protest a fracked pipeline gas corporations want to lay through the heart of NYC.

– LGBT Fracktivists & friends marched in the NYC pride parade.

-The Coalition against the Rockaway Pipeline CARP made a human pipeline warning about the gas industry’s unsafe track record.

– New Yorkers Against Fracking & Frack Action met Governor Cuomo in Syracuse to tell him NO to fracking and YES to renewables.

-Sixty residents with the Finger Lakes Action Networkconverged on the Cayuga Power Plant, rejecting both coal and natural gas and demanding a just energy transition.

Join Fearless Summer.  Facebook page; We Are Fearless Summer website.

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