Fracking

Argentina: 6 Indigenous Women At Heart Of Fracking Resistance

March 21, 2016 Nancy Piñeiro Moreno, Translated Laura Beratti, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Argentina, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, South America

By Nancy Piñeiro Moreno, Translated by Laura Beratti for Tele Sur - These women have put their bodies on the line, chained themselves to rigs and barricades, in order to protect their land. These six Mapuche women have taken the risk of putting their bodies on the line to stop the drilling rigs from further endangering their community. Aboriginal women are central to the continent-wide resistance against extractivism, and the story of these women from the Campo Maripe community in the Argentine Patagonia is a solid example of their ongoing contribution, and the importance of indigenous resistance for social movements worldwide.

Women On Front Lines Fighting Fracking In Bakken Oil Shale Formations

March 15, 2016 Emily Arasim and Osprey Orielle Lake, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Fracking, Indigenous Women

Emily Arasim and Osprey Orielle Lake for Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network - “The Bakken” is a shale formation that spans some 25,000 square miles and covers much of western North Dakota, eastern Montana and the southern parts of two Canadian provinces. Since the early 2000’s, a boom in oil extraction has taken place in the region thanks to newly available hydraulic fracking technologies used to extract sticky, heavy oil from deep within shale rock. In less than a decade, North Dakota has become a fracking epicenter and the second largest U.S oil-producer after Texas.

Kayactivsts Protest Fracked Gas Terminal At Cove Point

March 13, 2016 Jimmy Betts, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Cove Point, Dominion, Fracking, Gas, Kayactivists

By Jimmy Betts for We Are Cove Point. In protest of the construction of Dominion’s liquefied natural gas export terminal, dozens of activists and community members held a rally on March 13 on the boardwalk at Solomons Island that was accompanied by a flotilla of kayaks in the Patuxent River. Among those assembled were people fighting LNG export terminals in Texas and Oregon, as well as those fighting fracked gas infrastructure throughout the mid-Atlantic. The action was organized by a coalition of groups that coalesced at the recent Cove Point Spring Break camp, including We Are Cove Point, SEED, the Backbone Campaign and many others. Today’s rally was a message that people won’t stand by as their communities are overrun by corporations looking to make a profit at the expense of our health and well-being.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Fracking Favoritism

March 11, 2016 Candy Woodall, www.pennlive.com Resist! Fracking, Pennsylvania, Supreme Court

By Candy Woodall for Penn Live - There are more than 3 million Pennsylvanians who rely on private wells for their drinking water, and many of them live in the rural areas of the state where oil and gas drilling takes place. Hundreds of contamination cases were reported after spills, and they've only affected private water sources, according to attorney John Smith. The state's attorney, Sean Concannon, argued that the state regulates public water sources, not private wells, and that's why the act is written that way. DEP doesn't know where all the private wells are and couldn't notify everyone, he said.

Newsletter: Using Courts To Build The Movement

March 6, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Cimate, Climate Change, Courts, Exxon, FERC, Fracking, France, Fukushima, GMOs, Japan, Okinawa, Zapatistas

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. The worst crimes of US history have been protected by law – slavery, taking of Indigenous lands, attacks on unions, denying women the vote and money as speech in elections. As a result, when politicians say we are a nation of laws, it often means the courts will be used to protect corporate interests in making a profit even if doing so destroys communities, people and the environment. But, courts do not always side with the corporations and government. There are times when an enlightenment comes to the judiciary and some begin to rule for the people or their communities. This happens because even courts reflect the political moment – or zeitgeist – when the culture takes a turn thanks to people organizing to express their interests wherever they can. We may be at the beginning of such a moment, perhaps too soon to say and perhaps we are being optimistic. It shows the importance of the movement building national consensus because such consensus impacts everything.

Refusing To Settle, Dimock Families Take Fracking Giant To Court

February 27, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Court, Fracking, Pennsylvania

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Fracking is on trial in Pennsylvania this week as two families, who refused to settle in their pursuit of justice, have launched a court battle against Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. Neighbors Scott Ely and his wife, Monica Marta-Ely, and Ray and Victoria Hubert are accusing the fossil fuel giant of groundwater contamination, resulting in the loss of their drinking water supply. Both families live in the town of Dimock, which has become the cornerstone in the fight against fracking and was featured in the 2010 documentary Gasland.

No More Fracking Nuisance Lawsuits In West Virginia

February 13, 2016 Dory Hippauf, www.frackorporation.wordpress.com Resist! Fracking, Lawsuit, West Virginia

By Dory Hippauf for Frackorporation - Approximately 220 nuisance lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia (WVA) over the past 3 years against such drilling/fracking companies such as Antero Resources, EQT and Hall Drilling. WVA is considered a national energy hub, leading the nation in net interstate electricity exports and underground coal mine production, while experiencing a growing natural gas industry as a result of the Great Shale Gas Rush. Overall, it produces 15% of the nation’s fossil fuel energy. The state’s underground natural gas storage represents 6% of the nation’s total, and overall it has 5.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas reserves through 2008 estimates.

Fracked Gas Pipeline Protest, Feb 9th, Montpelier VT

February 11, 2016 Todd Boyle, www.youtube.com Resist! Fracking, Pipelines, Protests, Vermont

By Todd Boyle for Rising Tide Vermont - Dozens of community members just shut down ANOTHER eminent domain hearing for Vermont Gas Systems fracked gas pipeline. We packed the hearing room, made them let EVERYONE in, and used our voices to defend the home of our friend Claire Broughton. The hearing was adjourned within ten minutes, further delaying the eminent domain process and the construction of the largest fossil fuel project Vermont has seen in the past 50 years. It's getting pretty clear - It's time to leave the gas inside the ground. We're singing out for climate justice NOW!

People Power Turned Tree Cutters Away; More Help Needed

February 10, 2016 Megan Holleran, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By Megan Holleran of No Constitution Pipeline in PA. The Holleran family, friends and neighbors have been holding a constant presence on the Holleran property for over a week now to protect 100,000 of their trees from being cut down to make way for the Constitution Pipeline. Even though the pipeline has not been approved yet, the company is sending out tree cutters to clear the land. But, the Hollerans are doing everything they can to resist this irreparable harm. Today, they had a success and demonstrated the power of peaceful nonviolence. Here is their report from Facebook: On Wednesday morning at about 9:30am a tree cutting crew arrived on Three Lakes Road to access the Zeffer-Holloran property, where the Williams company’s proposed Constitution pipeline has seized land via eminent domain.

San Diego Says No New Gas!

February 10, 2016 San Diego Rising Tide, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By San Diego Rising Tide. San Diego, CA - Tuesday, February 10th at 2:30pm, activists with Rising Tide San Diego occupied the Sempra Energy building to call for a moratorium on new natural gas exploration in California. Carrying large painted clouds representing methane, or natural gas, and an open letter to SoCal gas, as subsidiary of Sempra Energy, Governor Brown and a list of local representatives, the organizers hope to make the Porter Ranch Crisis a wake-up call for the true costs of California's natural gas industry. The protest comes nearly four months after workers at a SoCal gas storage facility near LA noticed a substantial leak originating in an underground storage well. As of late January, the well has reportedly leaked over 86,00 metric tons of methane and counting.

To Protect Local Democracy, British Parliament Gets Fracked

February 10, 2016 www.propublica.org Resist! Fracking, United Kingdom (UK)

By Jon Queally for Common Dreams - "We are here to fight for the future of the English countryside," declared Greenpeace campaigner Hannah Martin. "Ministers are pushing aside local democracy to bulldoze through their unpopular fracking plans. We have installed a life-like fracking rig and drill at Parliament Square to show them what people in Lancashire and beyond will have to endure if so-called Communities Minister Greg Clark forces fracking on a reluctant nation."

The Not-So-Hidden Fracking Money Fueling The 2016 Elections

February 10, 2016 David Turnbull, www.priceofoil.org Educate! 2016 Elections, Campaign Financing, Fracking, Money in Politics

By David Turnbull for Oil Change International - The New York Times today has pulled together a list of all the individuals who have contributed over 1 million dollars in the 2016 election…and there’s some major fracking money hiding in plain sight. If you take a quick glance at the Times’ list of big contributors, you’ll see a hodgepodge of hedge fund managers, CEOs of major companies, and, of course oil industry executives. But, if you dig a little deeper, one family quickly emerges as a major player in the 2016 race: The Wilks family.

Newsletter: Global Solidarity Is Rising

February 7, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Newsletter Banking and Finance, Blockades, Climate Change, Extraction, Exxon, FERC, Flint, Fracking, Groundwater, Indigenous Peoples, Lead, Leonard Peltier, Pipelines, Police violence, Uranium

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. A key ingredient of previous successful campaigns to stop 'free trade' agreements is cross-border solidarity. Uniting struggles globally, as well as locally, is critical for other issues as well. Via Campesina, a movement started by peasants in 1993, has grown to become a global movement that recognizes the intersectionality between food security, land rights, the climate crisis and transnational corporate power. They work together to both resist harmful policies and to create necessary alternatives by organizing seed exchanges and impacting public policy. Similarly, global solidarity is increasing around the climate crisis.

Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Higher Than Reported

February 7, 2016 Laurel Peltier, www.baltimorefishbowl.com Educate! Fracking, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Water Pollution

By Laurel Peltier for Baltimore Fishbowl. Contrary to the EPA fracking study’s conclusion, the prevalence of drinking water contamination appears to be much higher than previously reported. Accurate drinking water complaint data is vital to know as Maryland drafts new fracking regulations to potentially welcome the natural gas industry into Western Maryland in 2017. Joshua Pribanic, Public Herald’s Editor-in-Chief adds, “At this point, there is no way to find out what happened with thousands of fracking water complaints except to go door-to-door and ask what happened with a complainant’s drinking water. In many cases you’ll find rooms stuffed with bottled water. Or, you’ll find in the basement an industry-supplied reverse osmosis system or a methane mitigation system. The true extent of water contamination has been concealed.

Contaminated Water Requires National Public Health Action

February 7, 2016 Drs. Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers, www.truthout.org Educate! Coal, Flint, Fracking, health, Privatization, Uranium, Water, Water Pollution

By Drs. Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers for TruthOut. Most people in the United States know about the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in March 1979. Although the official reports stated that an "insignificant" amount of radiation was released (this understatement has since been refuted), it is called "America's worst nuclear accident." Very few people know about the actual worst nuclear accident in the United States, which happened three months later in Church Rock, New Mexico. Perhaps this is because it mostly impacted people of the Navajo (Diné) Nation. On July 16, 1979, the wall of a tailings pond for a uranium mill broke open and released 93 million gallons of radioactive waste into the Arroyo Pipeline, a tributary to the Puerco River. The waste traveled 80 miles down the Puerco River into Arizona. Not only is it amazing that this spill was not reported in the media, but it is also remarkable that the governor of New Mexico refused to issue a state of emergency.

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