While California faces crazy droughts, coal ash spills into North Carolina’s rivers and dangerous chemicals have poisoned water in West Virginia, the moratorium against toxic hydro-fracking goes into a fourth year in New York state. … Read More
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Video of the week – Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil and Bad Air On the Texas Prairie
02/18/2014 – 5:50 pm
What struck me most about this incredible reporting from the Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News, and The Weather Channel was the segment that begins with an interview with Neil Carman, formally with the Texas Commission on … Read More
Video of the week: Flashback to “Gasland” Director Josh Fox Arrested at Congressional Hearing
02/11/2014 – 2:43 pm
Last week the Science, Space and Technology Committee, in a hearing titled Examining the Science of EPA Overreach: A Case Study in Texas, denied the scientific evidence that proves unconventional drilling and fracking contaminated ground … Read More
Not From Gasland Journal: A Letter to Secretary Moniz
02/10/2014 – 5:56 pm
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz has publicly supported fracking and denied its climate impacts. His belief that fracking can be done safely is wrong. We know the science proves that, but the Obama administration … Read More
Video of the week: Fracking in the Land of Lincoln
02/04/2014 – 2:41 pm
Our first grassroots screening of Gasland Part II was in Normal, Illinois at the Normal Theater. Originally, Illinois wasn’t even on our schedule, but with the State Legislature poised to open the state up for … Read More
Not From Gasland Journal: Who is Saying Yes and Who is Saying No?
01/26/2014 – 6:54 pm
A week ago today, Josh was on the Melissa Harris-Perry show to talk about the chemical spill in West Virginia that left 300,000 people without clean water. If you missed it, here’s the segment Josh … Read More
Not From Gasland Journal: Take that, you bullies!
12/27/2013 – 12:53 pm
Below is a post from our friends at the Delaware Riverkeeper Network about Act 13 in Pennsylvania, an important Supreme Court decision on fracking and victory for fractivist in PA and across the world. Act … Read More
Not From Gasland Journal: Energy “Reform” in Mexico Will Only Pave the Road for Fracking
12/09/2013 – 3:22 pm
Intro from Lee Ziesche, Grassroots Coordinator and post from Claudia Campero, Mexico Organizer: Below is a post from Claudia Campero, an organizer living in Mexico City. Mexico is at stage many countries were in just several … Read More
Not From Gasland Journal: The Mayflower Oil Spill
12/04/2013 – 10:44 am
Intro from Lee Ziesche, Grassroots Coordinator and post from April Lane, Arkansas organizer: Arkansas is feeling the full effects of being an extractive energy state. It’s been rocked by earthquakes and covered in oil, yet often … Read More
Not From Gasland Journal: Terroir
11/22/2013 – 12:09 pm
From Lee Ziesche, Grassroots Coordinator: Every bottle of wine tells a different story. It’s a story that begins in the distinct soil the vines grow from. It’s a story that is shaped by the history and … Read More
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