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‘Flatline The Pipeline’ Protest In Roanoke

September 27, 2015 Staff, www.wdbj7.com , , ,
By Staff of WDBJ7. Roanoke, VA - Dozens gathered in downtown Roanoke to protest pipeline projects in the region. People met at 16 West Market Place for the "Flatline the Pipeline" festival. Protestors who live along the pipeline route spoke out against the pipeline projects. Those in favor of pipelines say they offer energy alternatives and an economic boost. Protesters say they don't want the fracked-gas pipelines in Virginia because they're bad for the environment. "Until that pipeline is in the ground, there's a chance it won't be so I encourage our communities to continue to participate, continue to resist, continue to ask the right questions and continue to fight for our land, our water, for our community," said organizer Elise Keaton.

Judge Rejects SLAPP Suit Brought By Frackers Near Schools

September 26, 2015 Don Hopey, www.post-gazette.com , ,
By Don Hopey in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - A lawsuit by oil and gas leaseholders seeking to end opposition to shale gas drilling near the campus of the Mars Area School District was dismissed Thursday by Butler County Judge Marilyn J. Horan. Judge Horan, in a two-page decision, said the complaint lacked specifics and failed to link allegations to individual defendants. The lawsuit was characterized by defendants at a hearing last week as a “SLAPP suit,” a strategic lawsuit against public participation. The original lawsuit had sought punitive damages in excess of $500,000 from defendants, including the Delaware Riverkeeper, Clean Air Council and several local residents who have spoken in opposition and filed an appeal against new Middlesex Township zoning rules that open up more than 90 percent of the municipality to shale gas drilling.

Building A Solar Dream In A Tar Sands Nightmare

September 24, 2015 Melina Laboucan-Massimo, www.greenpeace.org , , , , ,
By Melina Laboucan-Massimo in Green Peace - After dealing with three decades of intensive oil, gas, logging, fracking and tar sands exploitation in our homeland, my community of Little Buffalo decided to forge a new future and become powered by the sun. First Nation communities have been on the front lines of resource extraction for far too long and we have paid the price for humanity’s addiction to oil, but we have hope for a way out of the crisis we are currently facing in Alberta and around the world. In a community of 500 in northern Alberta, this 20.8 kW solar installation will power the First Nation’s health center, and put additional energy back to the grid. Our community used to be self-sufficient and was able to live off the land. Now the community deals with contaminated water, polluted air and a compromised landscape. In 2011, the community had to deal with one of the largest oil spills in Alberta’s history.

Fracking’s Good Samaritans

September 16, 2015 Laurel Peltier, www.baltimorefishbowl.com , ,
By Laurel Peltier in Baltimore Fishbowl - When it comes to fracking, Maryland is unique. Along with New York and a few countries, no fracking wells have been drilled in western Maryland. Though our state’s natural gas lies west below Garrett and Alleghany counties, deciding to frack or not will most likely be decided in our General Assembly. All Marylanders will play a role in choosing whether to frack or not. There’s time to get up-to-speed on fracking’s realities since Maryland’ General Assembly legislated a fracking moratorium until October 1, 2017. Fracking’s a fairly complicated topic. Here at Baltimore Fishbowl we plan to publish stories that break fracking down into bite-sized chunks, and lay out key issues that don’t often pop up in the media. Since our sister states, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, are roughly one decade into fracking, we’re starting at the end.

Fashion Designer Drove A Tank Through England To Protest Fracking

September 14, 2015 ,
By Jennifer Swann in Take Part - While many of the world’s most famous designers were turning heads on the runways of New York Fashion Week, one of the industry’s biggest names was making a more important statement on the streets of England. Vivienne Westhood drove a military tank to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s home in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, on Friday to deliver a bold message. “I declare a war on fracking!” the fashion icon shouted in front of the conservative leader’s front door, raising one fist to the sky. Carrying a banner depicting a yellow hazardous waste sign with a skull and crossbones, the 74-year-old with platinum-white hair appeared to be wearing peep-toe platform shoes of her own design.

28 Arrested Saying: ‘Pope Francis, We Hear You’

September 13, 2015 Sandra Steingraber, www.ecowatch.com , , ,
By Sandra Steingraber for EcoWatch - Just two weeks before Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S., where he is expected to call for urgent action to protect the world’s environment, 28 people, led by local members of the Catholic Worker Movement, formed human chains shortly after sunrise this morning across both entrances of Crestwood Midstream on Route 14. Joining the protest was famed peace activist Martha Hennessy—the granddaughter of Catholic Worker co-founder and candidate for sainthood, Dorothy Day. As in previous blockades this summer, the protesters carried with them a seven-foot-tall replica of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical letter on climate change, Laudato Si! On Care for Our Common Home, as they blocked trucks from entering or leaving.

Small Texas Town Banned Fracking, Then Oil Industry Stepped In

September 8, 2015 Adam Briggle, www.salon.com , , ,
By Adam Briggle in Salon - It was 6:30 a.m. on June 1 in Denton, Texas, and we had come to defend our fracking ban. Last November, Denton citizens voted in a landslide to ban hydraulic fracturing (an oil and gas well stimulation technique that can be invasive and toxic). The ban was our last option after years of trying to accommodate an industry that refused to compromise. In January 2013, we passed rules to keep fracking away from residential areas. But in September of that year, they kept on fracking less than 200 feet from homes. Gas well operators and industry representatives claimed they didn’t have to follow local rules, because they held more than 11,000 acres of Denton territory that were grandfathered under old laws written long before the impacts of fracking were understood. Without the ban, we feared our local regulations would be trampled again and again. It would be spell mass neighborhood industrialization across our town.

Pennsylvanians Rally To Stop Fracking Near Schools

August 31, 2015 Diane Sipe, www.PopularResistance.org , , ,
By Diane Sipe for Marcellus Outreach Butler - More than 100 parents, concerned citizens, and advocates marched through downtown Butler to Diamond Park on Saturday to send a strong message that gas wells and infrastructure have no place near schools. Saturday’s rally was held as a follow-up to the July 14 protest rally held at the Mars Area School District (MASD) campus held in support of the Mars Parent Group’s fight to keep a Rex Energy wells from being placed about one-half mile from the campus’ five schools and 3200 student population. The Saturday protest emphasized that the egregious practice of putting unconventional gas wells and related activity such as gas processing plants, compressor stations, and pipelines near schools is pernicious by demonstrating the extent of the problem in Butler County. In Butler, it is known that at least five schools have been put at risk and the potential exists for many more of the county’s schools to be so in the future if the gas industry is permitted to continue gas development as it currently plans to do.

Newsletter – Black August, End Neo-Slavery, Resist

August 30, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance - Black August is coming to an end as we commemorate the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. As many head back to school, a full season of actions are being planned for the fall to stop the corporate takeover of our communities and world and the push toward neo-slavery. There is a lot of resistance going on. We hope that you have an opportunity this summer to relax and build up your energy for the many actions that are being planned for the fall. If you go to a park, there is one more thing you can do: take a moment to think about the people who inhabited the land before it became a park.

Faculty Of Colleges Urge Gov. Wolf Take Action On Climate Change

August 26, 2015 , , ,
By Ad Crable in Lancaster Online - Some 33 faculty members from three colleges in Lancaster County have sent a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that stresses the validity of climate change and endorses President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan to cut carbon pollution at coal-fired power plants. The 33 from Franklin & Marshall College, Elizabethtown College and Millersville University also urged the EPA to adopt strong rules to capture methane pollution from oil and gas drilling, which they said was quickly becoming a major driver for climate change. “Without a planet that can sustain us, nothing else matters,” said Sarah Dawson, director of the Wohlsen Center for Sustainable Environment at F&M.

Community Moves From Resistance To Focus On Solutions

August 24, 2015 Grassroots Big Splash, www.grassrootsbigsplash.com , ,
By Grassroots Big Splash - We started to not just focus on the environmental damages that fracking does and start trying to present solutions. In 2013 the events continued to support and provide a platform against fracking and dangerous LPG storage in nearby Seneca Lake. We wanted to offer solutions and education about how to remedy these problems as well. In the Summer of 2013 the Big Splash Sustainability Fair was born. A platform for renewable and sustainable business that was accessible to everyone. The events we transformed into two day, family oriented, solutions based activism. There were solar and wind exhibits, up-cycled jewelry and clothing, local and farm fresh food and produce. The two day events allowed people a little more of a get away and was a lot like sustainability summer camp. This is where we are today as well. We are growing and learning all of the time. Basically, we will continue to support local economy, the communities we visit and live in, and the environment.

Fracking Fight Heats Up In Ohio

August 24, 2015 Tish O'Dell, www.alternet.com , , ,
By Tish O'Dell in AlterNet - With the oil and gas industry already reveling in a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision stripping local control on fracking and other extraction activities away from communities, the Secretary of State has now handed the industry another victory, opening the door for fracking infrastructure projects to spread even faster across Ohio. In a decision issued August 13, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted blocked citizens from voting on Home Rule Charter initiatives which include provisions on fracking infrastructure development. In response to Husted’s decision, this week the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Secretary of State on behalf of community members in Athens, Medina and Fulton Counties seeking to restore the initiatives to the November ballot.

There Are 45 Fracked Wells Within 2 miles Of My Daughter’s School

August 23, 2015 Rodrigo Romo, www.theguardian.com , , , ,
By Rodrigo Romo for the Guardian - Earlier this summer, two weeks after California’s first-ever hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, regulations went into effect, my family filed a lawsuit against Governor Jerry Brown and California Oil and Gas Supervisor Steve Bohlen. We are challenging the regulations for illegally discriminating against students of color by permitting wells that are disproportionately close to the schools they attend. There are 45 fracked wells within a mile and a half of my daughter’s junior high school. At Sequoia Elementary School, which she attended for years, there are three separate fracked wells within a half-mile of the school, and one that is just 1,200 feet from the school. Shortly after fracking began near her school, my youngest daughter began to suffer from unexplainable epileptic attacks.

Fracking Fight Heats Up In Ohio

August 23, 2015 Tish O'Dell, www.alternet.org , , ,
By Tish O'Dell in Alternet. Columbus, OH - With the oil and gas industry already reveling in a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision stripping local control on fracking and other extraction activities away from communities, the Secretary of State has now handed the industry another victory, opening the door for fracking infrastructure projects to spread even faster across Ohio. In a decision issued August 13, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted blocked citizens from voting on Home Rule Charter initiatives which include provisions on fracking infrastructure development.

Should Food Irrigated With Fracked Water Be Labeled?

August 20, 2015 Lydia O'Connor, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Lydia O'Connor - A new bill proposed in California would require all produce irrigated with fracking wastewater to come with warning labels. The bill, which Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D) introduced on Monday, would require any crops grown with water that had previously been injected into rock formations to free oil and gas reserves and sold to consumers in the state to be labeled. The warning would read, "Produced using recycled or treated oil-field wastewater." "Consumers have a basic right to make informed decisions when it comes to the type of food that ends up on the family dinner table," Gatto said in a press release from his office. "Labeling food that has been irrigated with potentially harmful or carcinogenic chemicals, such as those in recycled fracking water, is the right thing to do."
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