Fracking

Spectra Construction Disrupted By Anti-Fracking Lockdown

November 17, 2015 Staff, www.capitalismvsclimate.org Resist! Fracking

By Staff of Capitalism Vs Climate - Chaplin, CT: Early in the morning, Bernardo McLaughlin of Capitalism vs. the Climate (CvC) obstructed the start of the work for Spectra Energy, locking himself to equipment at a compressor station that Spectra is expanding as part of a massive expansion of fracked gas pipeline infrastructure. "I placed my body here because we're out of options. The political class has decided they can survive climate catastrophe and written the rest of us off as acceptable losses. Nobody is coming to save us. Our only hope is organized grassroots power and direct action"...

Fracking Goes On Trial For Human Rights Violations

November 16, 2015 Kathleen Dean Moore, www.truth-out.org Resist! Fracking, Human Rights

By Kathleen Dean Moore for Truthout - As convoys of heavy trucks carry fracking equipment into new oil fields in neighborhoods and wildlands around the world, an alliance of human rights organizations is making plans to put the entire practice of hydraulic fracturing on trial. The court is the Permanent People's Tribunal, a descendant of the Vietnam War-era International War Crimes Tribunal. The Peoples' Tribunal is a branch of no government on Earth. It has no power of enforcement. It has no army, no prison, no sheriff. So what's the point? The point is that it matters to tell the truth in a public place.

Danish Anti-Fracking Success Makes Case For Constructive Resistance

November 9, 2015 Anders Vang Nielsen, www.commondreams.org Strategize! Fracking

By Anders Vang Nielsen for Common Dreams - For most people involved in climate activism, mentioning the name of my city of birth leaves a somewhat sour taste in the mouth. Since Copenhagen was the stage for the infamous COP15 failure, it has become an emblem not only of disillusionment with international climate politics but also of illegal police repression of popular action against the political deadlock. With all eyes now set on Paris and the promise of COP21 to deliver a non-binding agreement of insufficient emission reduction targets infested with corporate-friendly offset mechanisms...

Kern Residents Fasting For A Healthy Future

November 9, 2015 Staff, www.350.org Resist! Environment, Fracking

By Staff of 350 - In the tradition of Cesar E. Chavez’s last fast, residents of Kern County in California’s Central Valley are fasting again for their dignity and their children’s future – drawing attention to the environmental health issues they experience due to fracking and oil extraction. Led by Kern County Community Residents, the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE), and Committee for a Better Shafter, the fasting hopes to call attention to the upcoming County Board of Supervisors meeting on November 9th where members will decide on a proposed zoning ordinance that would fast track oil and gas drilling for the next 25 years without adequate health protections.

Breaking: Activists Hang From Stadium To Protest BofA

November 2, 2015 Staff, www.wearecovepoint.org Resist! Bank of America, Dominion, Fracking, health

By We Are Cove Point. CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — In protest of Bank of America’s role in financing the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Cove Point, Maryland, activists from We Are Cove Point have suspended themselves from the upper deck of Bank of America Stadium during the Monday Night Football game between the Charlotte Panthers and the Indianapolis Colts. They dropped a banner that reads, “BoA: Dump Dominion, WeAreCovePoint.org,” that was seen by the stadium audience of more than 70,000 people. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has played a major role in financing Dominion Resources (NYSE: D) and its $3.8 billion LNG export facility at Cove Point through Dominion Midstream (NYSE: DM). Bank of America is part of a consortium of banks that is lending Dominion up to $4 billion to finance several planned gas infrastructure projects.

Newsletter – Chipping Away At The System

October 25, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Newsletter Acronym TV, Climate Change, climate crisis, COP21, Empire Files, Environmental racism, Fracking, Mass Incarceration, New Economy, Noam Chomsky, Police violence, Racism, TPP, TTIP

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - The weekly newsletter: The forces that work to maintain the status quo, to protect the oppressors and the profiteers, are powerful, but everywhere there are people chipping away at the pillars that prop up the current systems, exposing truths and forcing changes. This week, we highlight some of these struggles with the hope that we will learn from them. Issues covered include (1) The tide is shifting on mass incarceration; (2) Fighting back when public services under attack; (3) The climate crisis will not be solved by corporate lobbyists and (3) New Video Tools: Acronym TV, Empire Files and Act Out! It is essential that we use the tools we have - our own media, the legal system and organized and mobilized resistance - to continue to expose truth, fight injustice and create new systems that build the world we need. Together, can build a powerful force.

Vermonters Occupy Capital To Stop Fracking Pipeline

October 25, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, Pipelines, Vermont

By Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Montpelier, VT - On Saturday, Oct. 24, more than 100 people demonstrated against a pipeline that will carry fracked gas from Colchester to Rutland if it is completed. The pipeline is being built by Vermont Gas which is a subsidiary of the Canadian company Gaz Metro of Quebec. Concerned Vermonters gathered on the lawn in front of the Capitol in Montpelier and then marched through the streets, passing the building where the Public Service Board, which approved the pipeline, meets. Much to the surprise of local law enforcement, the marchers then took over State Street and set up a giant replica of a fracking well. The crowd gathered there to listen to speeches. Police shut the street down. In the evening, some from the group set up tents to occupy the street.

Death By Fracking

October 20, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Fracking

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - DENVER—The maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is fracking. One day, courtesy of corporations such as Halliburton, BP and ExxonMobil, a gallon of water will cost more than a gallon of gasoline. Fracking, which involves putting chemicals into potable water and then injecting millions of gallons of the solution into the earth at high pressure to extract oil and gas, has become one of the primary engines, along with the animal agriculture industry, for accelerating global warming and climate change.

Stop Fracking Infrastructure In The Northeast & Mid-Atlantic

October 18, 2015 Rally to Say No to Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Fracking, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Rally to Say No to Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania - RALLY Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Fracking Infrastructure Fighters in Harrisburg, PA on October 28 at noon. We all know that more drilling and fracking in Pennsylvania means more pipelines, LNG facilities, compressor stations, and gas processing plants for the rest of us in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts and beyond. If we want to stop the pipelines, we must work together in solidarity to stop the gas at the wellheads in Pennsylvania. The open public participation of PA's Pipeline Task Force offers us the opportunity to have our collective voices heard while working together with our friends and neighbors throughout PA who have been fighting the oil and gas invasion of their beautiful state for many years. Please join us at the task force's next meeting to send a strong message to the Wolf administration!

Opposition Grows Against Appalachian Pipeline

October 18, 2015 Jim Magill, www.platts.com Resist! FERC, Fracking, Oil and Gas, Oil Pipelines

By Jim Magill for Platts - Pipeline developers looking to build infrastructure to move natural gas out of the Appalachian Basin face numerous challenges, from strengthening opposition from environmental groups to shifting market patterns and increased regulatory scrutiny, speakers at the Platts Appalachian Oil and Gas Conference in Pittsburgh said Friday. "It's something that we have to face right now. I think that all the projects are seeing that," he said on the conference sidelines. "It's bringing out issues that we have to deal with, that we have to look at in our environmental analysis of these projects." He added that some of the larger environmental organizations in the country are beginning to get more involved in the pipeline approval process. "You have to deal with that and you have to take a different approach to it than what we've done in the past," he said.

Pennsylvania Residents Hire Attorney To Protect Anti-Fracking Law

October 9, 2015 Mary Grzebieniak, www.ncnewsonline.com Resist! Fracking, Pennsylvania

By Mary Grzebieniak for New Castle News - A group of residents is trying to stop Wilmington Township supervisors from amending their fracking ordinance. The group has hired attorney John M. Smith, the lawyer who won a landmark decision in the Robinson Township case which overturned parts of Act 13, the state's oil and gas drilling law in 2013. They are trying to stop the supervisors from weakening the township's 2014 ordinance governing gas and oil drilling. That ordinance, which is still in effect, is the strictest in Lawrence County and provided restrictions that exceed state Department of Environmental Protection rules. But several amendments have been proposed to the ordinance which residents say will weaken it considerably.

Fracktivists Direct Action At Colorado Governor’s Mansion

October 7, 2015 Staff, www.floodthesystem.net Resist! Colorado, Fracking

By Staff of Flood The System, Anti-fracking activists in Denver Colorado have erected a 20 foot mock wooden oil derrick in front of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s mansion in a posh Denver neighborhood demanding an end to the practice in their state. A mother and daughter from the frack impacted community of Loveland, CO have chained themselves to the oil rig in protest, while another anti-fracking activist is perched atop it. Loudspeakers have been mounted to the top of the platform, projecting the personal stories of citizens who’ve been harmed by fracking. Under Hickenlooper, Colorado has been reckless in its development of shale gas reserves. Over 55,000 wells are currently in production and industry’s cozy relationship with the governor continues to maintain business as usual.

North Carolina Bans Local Fracking Bans

October 6, 2015 Bertrand M. Gutiérrez, www.journalnow.com Educate! Fracking, North Carolina

By Bertrand M. Gutiérrez for Winston-Salem Journal - State lawmakers approved a bill in the final hours of the general session last week that includes a provision aimed at countering the moratoria passed by local governments, including Stokes County, on potential hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the drilling method used to extract shale gas or oil. A provision in Senate Bill 119 describes as “invalidated and unenforceable” local ordinances that place conditions on fracking that go beyond those restrictions already set by state oil-and-gas regulations. Lawmakers passed the bill mostly along party lines, with Republicans supporting, days after the Stokes County commissioners unanimously approved a moratorium on oil-and-gas operations for three years — time the commissioners say the county will need to review land-use rules aimed at boosting environmental protections if fracking ever happens there.

Peoples’ Tribunal Shows Fracking’s Threat to Human Rights

October 3, 2015 Damien Short, Anna Grear, Tom Kerns and Simona L. Perry, www.truth-out.org Resist! Fracking, Human Rights

By Damien Short, Anna Grear, Tom Kerns and Simona L. Perry for Truthout - "The needs of public conscience can become a recognized source of law […] and a tribunal that emanates directly from the popular consciousness reflects an idea that will make headway: institutionalized powers and the people, from whom the former claim legitimacy in actual fact tend to diverge and only a truly popular initiative can try to bridge the gap between people and power."—Lelio Basso. Communities and individuals all over the world have been, and are being, affected by fracking operations. Frequently, such affected communities and individuals face powerful corporations and governments unresponsive to the voices of those claiming that their lives and communities have been blighted by fracking.

Fasting, Fracking, Medicare, Money In Politics & The Pope

October 1, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Educate! Fracking, Medicare, Pope, Youth

By Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy - This week, from med students to female priests, fasters to the monopoly man, we've got a helluva lineup. First up, let's talk Medicare and why it shouldn't be so ageist. Next, how could we not mention the Pope? And since I'm such a contrarian, let's talk about the good AND the bad. Then, we've got a fracking low life scum award, money in politics and get ready to get cozy and design some graphics! But first, this is plastic. I bleed.

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