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Activists tweak message, timing in latest anti-fracking ballot fight
2015-08-22 14:41:34| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Activists will take another crack at passing the Colorado Community Rights Amendment, a proposed ballot initiative designed to give localities a veto over corporate activity, starting with the oil and gas industry. If all that sounds familiar, it's because a virtually identical measure, also sponsored by Coloradans for Community Rights, failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot last year.
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Anti-fracking Nanas: 'The government is all out for shale we're all out to stop it'
2015-07-03 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If the two security guards had been awake, they probably wouldnt have believed their eyes. Twenty-five women aged between 25 and 60, in yellow tabards and matching Hilda Ogden headscarves, vaulting a gate in order to occupy the Blackpool field that the energy company Cuadrilla had paid the guards to mind. Everything went smoothly, except for the logistical bits we left to the fellas, said hairdresser Anjie Mosher, one of the group known as the Nanas, who have become the frontline against fracking...
Anti-Fracking Filmmaker Josh Fox Arrested in Finger Lakes Protest
2015-05-15 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Beast: Award-winning documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, who wrote and directed the acclaimed fracking film Gasland, was arrested this afternoon while engaging in a human barricade at a natural-gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes. People need to see whats happening at Seneca Lake, and also understand that this isnt isolated, it is happening everywhere, Fox told The Daily Beast before the protest. We need to educate people that our dependency on fossil fuels has got to change, and it has to change...
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Global Shale Gas and the Anti-Fracking Movement
2015-01-04 19:57:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Water Contamination The evidence strongly suggests that fracking poses serious dangers to workers, communities, and the natural environment with particularly severe impacts in terms of water contamination and access. Fracking just one well can use between 2 million to 5.6 million gallons of freshwater and produce between 420,000 to 2.5 million gallons of wastewater.
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A Chat on New Yorks Shale Gas Ban w/ Anti-Fracking Superhero Mark Ruffalo
2014-12-18 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: On Twitter early this morning, I had a productive exchange about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomos decision to ban shale gas development in New York with Mark Ruffalo, the actor best known for playing the Marvel comic character Hulk. Ruffalo, who lives near the Delaware River in the upstate New York region that was targeted for shale gas drilling, is one of many prominent public figures who pressed Cuomo long and hard to ban hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking. We both would love to see...
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