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Two Arrested Protesting Fracking Wastewater Injection Well
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: Two Youngstown, OH community members were arrested today at a nonviolent protest and rally at a fracking wastewater injection well site in Niles, OH. The two protesters were arrested for blocking trucks from entering the well site while holding a “Fracking Hurts Communities” banner. More than 50 people from Ohio and Pennsylvania attended the rally.
“The state of Ohio has refused to protect its communities from fracking," said Chris Khumprakob, who was arrested during the protest. "Hydraulic fracturing...
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Comments Off on Two Arrested Protesting Fracking Wastewater Injection WellTar Sands Industry Eyes Great Lakes for Cheap Shipping
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 22nd, 2013
EcoWatch: As tar sands extraction continues and proposals for expanded pipelines from Canada into the U.S. form a backdrop, the Great Lakes themselves could become the next frontier for moving crude oil to a vast Midwest refinery network.
The region faces a critical choice about whether the Great Lakes should become a thoroughfare for tar sands crude shipping, a new report from Alliance for the Great Lakes warns. The report, Oil and Water: Tar Sands Crude Shipping Meets Great Lakes?, finds that neither...
House Approves Bill to Fast Track Fracking on Public Lands
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 21st, 2013
EcoWatch: By a vote of 235-187, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved its latest giveaway to the oil and gas industry--a bill that would fast track the approval of fracking on public lands, according to Environment America.
The bill approved yesterday is one of three anit-environmental, pro-industry bills expected to pass the Republican controlled House of Representatives this week.
“Fracking is already wreaking havoc on our environment and health," said Environment America’s Federal Clean...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on House Approves Bill to Fast Track Fracking on Public LandsHealthy Rivers Build Greater Resilience to Climate Change
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 8th, 2013
EcoWatch: Climate change is bringing more extreme floods and droughts, and large dams can compound the impacts of both. Dam failures, levees that cut off rivers from their floodplains and hydropower projects that lay idle in times of drought reduce the ability of societies to cope with the impacts of a changing climate.
The new report, Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate Resilience, by International Rivers explains how rivers strengthen climate resilience, how large dams increase our vulnerability...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Healthy Rivers Build Greater Resilience to Climate ChangeHuge Election Victories for Colorado’s Anti-Fracking Movement
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 6th, 2013
EcoWatch: Yesterday`s election brought huge results for anti-fracking voters in Fort Collins, Boulder and Lafayette where all measures were approved that will either ban or pause the practice of hydraulic fracturing. Initial results show Broomfield with a tally so close--13 votes--that it will force a recount.
"With wins in Boulder, Lafayette and Fort Collins--and a partial-victory in Broomfield--this election sends a huge wake-up call to Governor Hickenlooper that the people of Colorado do not want to...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Huge Election Victories for Colorado’s Anti-Fracking Movement13 Arrested Blocking Highway at Site of Spectra Energy Pipeline
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 3rd, 2013
EcoWatch: Thirteen people were arrested yesterday for blocking the West Side Highway adjacent to the site where Spectra Energy has completed a natural gas pipeline entering Manhattan, NY from New Jersey.
Thanks to the Environment TV crew for capturing this direct action on video.
According to the Sane Energy Project, the “New Jersey-New York Expansion Project” is a high-pressure gas pipeline, varying in diameter from 42-30? routed up the New Jersey shoreline, through the edge of Staten Island, under...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on 13 Arrested Blocking Highway at Site of Spectra Energy PipelineGroups Combat Misleading Fracking Ads on NPR
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 1st, 2013
EcoWatch: When members of Environmental Action became fed up with pro-fracking spots aired by the America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) on National Public Radio (NPR), they set up a mock website NPR-Dont-Even-Thinkaboutit.org to collect their own messages highlighting the dangers of fracking. Dozens of comments and voices were then edited into a segment intended to serve as a counterweight to the pro-fracking messages on NPR. “Since the beginning, companies like Halliburton have been covering up the real...
Groups Call on Inspector General to Confirm Corruption in Keystone XL Pipeline Investigation
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on October 30th, 2013
EcoWatch: Today, 22 environmental and public interest groups wrote a letter to Inspector General Steve Linick demanding that his investigation examine not only whether the consultant, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), lied when it said it had not worked with TransCanada and major oil companies, but whether the State Department made any effort to confirm ERM`s claims or instead accepted them at face value.
"The evidence clearly shows that ERM lied on its conflict of interest forms," said Ross Hammond,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Groups Call on Inspector General to Confirm Corruption in Keystone XL Pipeline InvestigationPepsi and Coke, Stop Using Tar Sands Oil
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on October 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: Environmental groups Sierra Club and ForestEthics targeted Coke and Pepsi in two full page USA Today print ads yesterday for their use of oil from tar sands in corporate car and truck fleets. The ads are part of a national campaign to eliminate the use of oil from Canadian tar sands by corporate car and truck fleets. The groups are targeting the soda industry with the "Tastes Like Tar Sands" campaign, which has generated more than 75,000 messages to soda industry executives.
As the advertisements...
36 Risk Arrest Protesting Keystone XL at Boston Rally
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on October 7th, 2013
EcoWatch: Thirty-six people risked arrest today while staging a peaceful sit-in at the State Department’s office in Secretary Kerry`s hometown of Boston in opposition to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. More than 200 supporters also rallied at Monday’s event in support of those risking arrest.
For the second time this year, the State Department refused to arrest grandparents, scientists, President Obama and Secretary Kerry supporters and other anti-Keystone XL protesters even though both entrances...