Fracking

TWAC Activists Blockade Fracked Gas Truck

July 7, 2015 Emma McCumber, www.risingtidevermont.org Resist! Environment, Fracking, LGBTQ, Oil and Gas

By Emma McCumber in Rising Tide Vermont. ADDISON, VT - Today activists from TWAC (Trans* and/or Women's Action Camp) and Earth First!, blockaded a shipment of fracked gas en route to the International Paper mill in Addison County, VT and hung a banner proclaiming "Not by Truck, Pipe or Rail" off the Crown Point bridge. [1] They called for an end to the extreme energy extraction, distribution, and consumption that fuels social and ecological violence, which impacts people of color, indigenous peoples, trans* people and/or women, and low-income people the most. About 40 people participated in the action, which blocked an NG Advantage truck for several hours. NG Advantage, owned in part by Texas oilman and billionaire T. Boone Pickens, began shipping fracked gas to International Paper last year after it became increasingly clear that the fracked gas pipeline underneath Lake Champlain was unlikely to be completed.

In Oklahoma, Fracking Companies Can Be Sued Over Earthquakes

July 3, 2015 Emily Atkin, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Earthquake, Environment, Fracking, Law, Oklahoma

By Emily Atkin in Think Progress - If you live in Oklahoma, and you’ve been injured by an earthquake that was possibly triggered by oil and gas operations, you can now sue the oil company for damages. That’s the effect of a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which on Tuesday rejected efforts by the oil industry to prevent earthquake injury lawsuits from being heard in court. Instead of being decided by juries and judges, the industry was arguing that cases should be resolved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, a state regulatory agency. The state’s high court rejected that argument. “The Commission, although possessing many of the powers of a court of record, is without the authority to entertain a suit for damages,” the opinion reads. “Private tort actions, therefore, are exclusively within the jurisdiction of district courts.”

Why It’s So Hard To Regulate Fracking

June 30, 2015 Justin Miller, www.prospect.org Educate! Environment, Fracking, Law, Science

By Justin Miller in Prospect - Without a clear mandate from the EPA, regulations at the federal level may well remain limited, though the Obama administration has made some moves to regulate fracking. This March the president announced new safety regulations for fracking, a first at the national level. However, given the limits of unilateral federal authority the restrictions can only apply to federal and tribal land and have no impact on the vast spectrum of state and local laws. Despite the relatively small scope of the rules, that didn’t stop two oil industry groups from immediately suing to challenge the regulations. Nor did it stop 27 Republicans, including Republican Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, from swiftly introducing legislation that would kill the policy.

Denton, TX Residents Gather For Frack Free Fridays

June 28, 2015 Staff, www.bprisingtide.org Resist! Denton, Fracking, Texas

By Staff of Blackland Prairie Rising Tide. Frack Free Fridays got off to a great start this morning with coverage on WFAA’s ‘Good Morning Texas.‘ One of the 10 Denton residents arrested attempting to enforce our ban had this to say: “The message that I would say is it’s not only about Denton. It’s about local control and how it was robbed from us by the Texas legislature. So look out, your community is next.” – Elida Tamez If you’re interested in joining us for future Frack Free Friday events, sign up here. Meanwhile, here’s some photos from today’s event. Once again residents from the neighborhood directly across the street joined us. Residents attempted to slow down trucks entering the frack site, but no arrests were made today. Last week, local Denton mother Meredith Buie was arrested for peacefully sitting down in front of a fracking truck attempting to enter a Vantage Energy well site located less than 200 feet from nearby houses and businesses.

We Are Greater Than The Fracked Gas Lobby

June 20, 2015 Lee Stewart, www.popularresistance.org Resist! fast track, FERC, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By Lee Stewart for Popular Resistance. Washington, DC - The dome was encased in a rigid web of scaffolding as I rushed by. Looking up at it on my way to the corner of Independence Avenue and New Jersey Avenue SE, I saw a country trying to hide a fatal illness. It’s beyond repair, I mumbled to myself, thinking about the deep underlying rot I see everywhere I look. Walking in the shadow of the Capitol Building in the day’s rising heat, my ears were still ringing. Made uneasy by the inadequate yet intensifying public scrutiny faced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the captive government agency that receives its funding from the very industry it purports to regulate, the rule-makers there no longer allow its outspoken critics inside the room where monthly public meetings are held.

92-Year-Old Booked Into Jail After Fracking Protest

June 18, 2015 WFAA, www.khou.com Resist! Denton, Fracking, Law

By WFAA - A 92-year-old woman was taken into custody and booked into the Denton jail for a short time on Tuesday after protesting at a fracking site. Violet Palmer said she knew that was a possibility when she joined her son and a small group of protesters outside a drilling operation on the west side of the city Tuesday morning. "I did feel compelled," she said. "I feel like I must do something." Palmer, who is blind, said the officers were courteous and she was never handcuffed. Police said it is unlikely charges will actually be pressed. Palmer said she is outraged that a new state law from Austin essentially voids Denton's local ban on fracking, which was passed overwhelmingly by voters in November.

Misleading Fracking Job Numbers Exposed In Pennsylvania

June 18, 2015 Marie Cusick, www.stateimpact.npr.org Educate! Environment, Fracking, Pennsylvania, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Marie Cusick in NPR - Somehow Pennsylvania lost 160,000 gas industry jobs overnight. What happened? Did drillers flee at the specter of a new tax on production? Not quite. Although companies have been laying off workers and cutting costs– lackluster market conditions don’t explain this shift. Instead, it was a decision made under Governor Wolf’s new administration. Last week the state Department of Labor and Industry quietly changed the way it tracks employment in the Marcellus Shale industry. “Those numbers were a joke,” says John Hanger, Wolf’s secretary of planning and policy. ”The errors were so glaring, they had to be changed.” Wolf’s predecessor Tom Corbett, a Republican, often credited drillers with supporting more than 200,000 Pennsylvania jobs.

Northeast Anti-Fracking Coalition Derails Gas Forum

June 17, 2015 Kelly Canavan, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Cove Point, Dominion, Fracking, Gas, Pipelines, Spectra

By Kelly Canavan for Popular Resistance. Boston, MA - Activists from Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington DC, and Maine disrupted the twentieth annual LDC Gas Forum two days in a row in protest of the Algonquin Incremental Market Expansion, the Cove Point LNG Export Terminal, the Vermont Gas Pipeline, and to demand the cancellation of all new gas infrastructure projects. One woman was arrested. Protesters are increasingly united across state lines, and across projects, and showing that they are not going to settle for causing a ruckus in only their own backyards. The annual Forum, attended by nearly 600 people, is designed to bring together large energy corporations with local gas distributors. On Monday morning Jay Gustaferro of Gloucester interrupted the conference's opening ceremony and took over the mic. Gustaferro addressed hundreds of gas industry professionals, urging them to take issues such as climate change and water contamination seriously. “I wanted to call out some of the myths that they are hoping to spin at this conference, and call out their hypocrisy and criminality.”

Lubicon Lake Nation Wins Early Victory In Anti-Fracking Case

June 12, 2015 Alberta Native News, www.albertanativenews.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Fracking, Oil & Gas, Sovereignty

By Alberta Native News - On June 5, 2015, the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta released Justice Simpson’s decision rejecting in part the Application to Strike brought by the defendant, oil giant PennWest Petroleum Ltd.(NYSE: PWE, TSE:PWT), who is being sued by the Lubicon Lake Nation, as represented by Chief Bernard Ominayak and the Lubicon Council in Ominayak v Penn West Petroleum Ltd. In March 2015, the parties had appeared before Justice Simpson in Peace River, AB, where PennWest argued that the entire action should be struck because it amounted to an abuse of process, pleading that the action was duplicative of a proceeding brought against Alberta and Canada and that the action constituted a collateral attack on the oil company’s authorizations.

International Day Of ‘Cheeky’ Climate Actions

June 7, 2015 Louise Hazan, www.gofossilfree.org Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Fracking, Oil and Gas

By Louise Hazan in GoFossilFree.org. Monday saw a huge day of international, coordinated action against the fossil fuel industry and corporations fuelling the climate crisis — from the UK where grassroots activist network Reclaim the Power launched a record-breaking 18 creative actions in a day to big events in Luxembourg, France, Switzerland and Germany. Blockades, shutdowns, lock-ons, love-ins, fracking tripod rigs and one very cheeky protest…..Reclaim the Power’s day of action against the fossil fuel industry saw 18 different actions connecting the dots between big energy firms, government ministers, public relations companies, oil arts sponsorship and the fracking industry.

Newsletter: See You At The Barricades

June 6, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese at Popular Resistance, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Coal Mining, fast track, Fracking, Human Right, Human Trafficking, Indigenous People, Militarization, NSA, Patriot Act, Slavery, Solar Energy, TISA, TPP, TTIP, USA Freedom Act, Wikileaks

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese at Popular Resistance. We are at a crossroads to either a future of global corporate governance or a chance for democracy. As Chris Hedges writes in his new book, "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt," a revolution is coming but we can't guarantee which way it will go. Will you be there to fight for justice? You have an opportunity to do that now. This is the critical week to stop Fast Track legislation from passing in Congress. Fast Track could last for the next six years and would enable passage of not just the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but also the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA). There are different ways to define security. Some would say that security means a police or military force to protect people from those who might cause harm. Others would say that security means the government has a responsibility to make sure that the basic needs of its people are met which in itself would reduce crimes and the need for a violent security force. This is your food for thought for this week. How do you define security?

Fracking Returns, But Denton Vows To Keep Fighting

June 6, 2015 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Denton, Environment, Fracking, Law, Oil & Gas

By Zahra Hirji in Inside Climate News - Two weeks after Denton's fracking ban was rendered illegal by a sweeping new state law restricting local control of oil-and-gas activities, residents of the north Texas town are frustrated, upset and conflicted about how best to respond. Emotions were on display at this week's Denton City Council meeting, where more than 30 people weighed in on whether the city should repeal the ban. Following the public's advice, the seven-member council decided against repealing the ban—for now—after more than five hours of testimony and discussion. "Fracking is happening right now in our community, again, and it's pretty clear that in our community, people do not want fracking to happen," said Ron Seifert, a Denton resident and environmental activist, to the council. "So my question is: What is the city prepared to do to follow through with the will of the people here?"

Long-Awaited EPA Study Says Fracking Pollutes Drinking Water

June 5, 2015 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Environment, Fracking, Water

By Anastasia Pantsios in Ecowatch - In 2010, Congress commissioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the impact of fracking on drinking water. The U.S. EPA released its long-awaited final draft of its report today, assessing how fracking for oil and gas can impact access to safe drinking water. The report refuted the conclusion arrived at by the U.S. EPA’s 2004 study that fracking poses no threat to drinking water, a conclusion used to exempt the fracking process from the Safe Drinking Water Act. The report found that fracking for shale oil and gas has not led to “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States,” but said fracking could contaminate drinking water under certain conditions, such as when fluids used in the process leaked into the water table, and found isolated cases of water contamination.

Dept. Of Interior Forced To Reveal Extent Of Fracking In Gulf

June 4, 2015 Mike Ludwig, www.truth-out.org Educate! Animal Rights, Environment, Fracking, Oil & Gas

By Mike Ludwig in Truthout - The US Department of the Interior must reveal records on the use of fracking technology in the Gulf of Mexico under a legal settlement with an environmental group filed in federal court on June 1. The settlement requires the two agencies that regulate offshore oil and gas production in federal waters to release documents on fracking in the Gulf over a nine-month period, beginning in July. The Center for Biological Diversity originally requested the records more than eight months ago under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Once released, the records will also help satisfy a separate FOIA request for Gulf fracking permits filed by Truthout in November 2014. "Offshore fracking has been shrouded in secrecy, but this settlement will finally force the government to tell us where oil companies are using this toxic technique," said Kristen Monsell, a Center attorney.

Act Out! Episode 13 – #ShellNo, Sun Sets On Patriot Act

June 1, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resist! Fracking, Occupy, Oil & Gas, Patriot Act, Surveillance

By Eleanor Goldfield in Occupy - This week we dive into the toxic sludge of the oil industry, beginning with Shell’s latest plans to drill in the Arctic. Luckily, activists are standing, and sitting, up to these corporate cronies. We talk to Bill Moyer of Backbone Campaign and George Edwardson, Inupiat leader, about the #ShellNo protests, how you can get involved and the importance of leaving the Arctic the f#@% alone. Moving on to Santa Barbara, Nigeria and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the oil industry easily gets this week’s lowlife scum award. Speaking of lowlife scum, frack is wack and Beyond Extreme Energy is making sure the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hears them loud and clear over the sound of their rubber-stamped fracking rigs. Join them this week!

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