When the oil and gas industry comes to town, they like to brag about the benefits fracking will bring to the local economy. We’ve seen this myth unravel again and again. Whether it’s Chesapeake Energy stiffing … Read More
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Video of the Week – The Myth of the Local Fracking Boom: A Denton Shale Gas Short
03/21/2014 – 11:55 am
Video of the week: The Ten Year Old Fractivist
03/04/2014 – 3:42 pm
Our video of the week features one of the youngest and most inspiring Fractivist that we’ve ever met. Siena is a 10 year old Fractivist from California. She’s a strong, motivated young lady on a mission … Read More
Video of the Week: In New York there are Six Nations Against Fracking
02/24/2014 – 10:10 am
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
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: 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: Fracking the Home Team in Denton, Texas
11/13/2013 – 1:12 pm
Intro from Lee Ziesche, Grassroots Coordinator and post from Adam Briggle, Denton, Texas organizer: After over 45 Gasland Part II screenings across the globe, we’ve seen a lot of awesome activist t-shirts. I love them because … Read More
Colorado Drowning in Frack Fluid
09/17/2013 – 8:38 pm
I’m calling on Governor Hickenlooper to immediately enact a statewide ban on all extractive mining operations/Fracking until such time all completed wells in Colorado are just inspected in accordance with flood plain regulations. Current setbacks … Read More
Fracking Balcombe: One Battle In A Global Struggle
09/03/2013 – 7:00 pm
I’ve heard Josh talk about how scary and lonely it felt when the gas industry first came knocking on his door on more than one occasion. But then a strong, passionate community rose up, and … Read More
We Want You To Have GASLAND PART II First! Yes You The Grassroots!
04/30/2013 – 6:56 pm
True to our origin, we want to offer GASLAND Part II to the grassroots first. Before the HBO broadcast, before Hollywood and DC, you get it. We’re coming to you. From day one, it’s been … Read More
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