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Pennsylvanians Opposed to Fracking Speak Out to Gov. Corbett
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 10th, 2013
EcoWatch: On Jan. 8, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) presented Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett with more than 35 video messages from Pennsylvania residents opposed to shale gas drilling. The videos were collected and assembled by the DRN, and shown to Gov. Corbett by Delaware Riverkeeper Maya van Rossum during a State House meeting in Harrisburg, PA.
The video shows Gov. Corbett the raw emotions of residents who have suffered from the harmful impacts of fracking as well as those who are concerned about...
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 10th, 2013
EcoWatch: Sign this petition to tell the Obama administration to enact an immediate national moratorium on high-volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and independent scientific studies are completed on the impacts of fracking to the environment, climate and human health.
Signing this petition automatically sends an email calling for a moratorium on fracking to the U.S. EPA, Department of Energy and Bureau of Land Management.
This petition...
80+ Groups Challenge Gov. Cuomo to Lead on Climate Change and Protect His State from Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 7th, 2013
EcoWatch: A coalition of national environmental and progressive groups--including 350.org, Center for Biological Diversity, Democracy for America, Environment America, Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch, Greenpeace and Sierra Club--joined with other national and New York organizations to send Governor Cuomo a letter challenging him to be a national leader in addressing climate change. The letter applauds his stated commitment to addressing climate change and environmental protection, but highlights...
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on December 22nd, 2012
EcoWatch: Waterkeeper Alliance has produced a new PSA video narrated by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the organizations president, and Edward James Olmos, a long time supporter of the group. The video premiered on CBS on Dec. 10, during the Deer Valley Celebrity Skifest and will be seen on cable channels beginning in early 2013. Founded in 1999, Waterkeeper Alliance, a global environmental movement uniting more than 200 Waterkeeper organizations around the world, focuses on citizen advocacy on issues affecting...
Does Fracking Contaminate Drinking Water?
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on December 21st, 2012
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today provided an update on its ongoing national study currently underway to better understand any potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.
According to an EPA press release:
Results of the study, which Congress requested EPA to complete, are expected to be released in a draft for public and peer review in 2014. The update provided today outlines work currently underway, including the status of research projects that...
How Money in Politics Impacts Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on December 20th, 2012
EcoWatch: In the 2012 election cycle, pro-fracking interests contributed a combined total of nearly $400,000 to candidates for state legislature and county executive in New York`s Southern Tier.
Although incumbents uniformly prevailed, the natural gas industry and its boosters have attempted to frame these results as a "mandate" in support of fracking. The more likely analysis is that the trappings of entrenched incumbency, such as name recognition and an established fundraising apparatus, determined the...
You Need to See This Movie
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on December 6th, 2012
EcoWatch: A December 2012 Siena College poll shows that upstate New Yorkers oppose fracking by an astounding margin of 45-39. Those numbers surprise New York politicians who can generally count on the support of upstaters for virtually any industrial or commercial enterprise that promises even the faintest chance of economic development for New York`s impoverished rural communities.
Matt Damon and John Krasinski`s new film Promised Land answers the question of why even the poorest rural communities are...
Are Earthquakes and Fracking Wastewater Injection Wells Related?
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on December 4th, 2012
EcoWatch: Two new papers tie a recent increase in significant earthquakes to reinjection of wastewater fluids from unconventional oil and gas drilling. The first study notes “significant earthquakes are increasingly occurring within the United States midcontinent.” In the specific case of Oklahoma, a Magnitude “5.7 earthquake and a prolific sequence of related events … were likely triggered by fluid injection.”
The second study, of the Raton Basin of Southern Colorado/Northern New Mexico by a U.S. Geological...
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on December 4th, 2012
EcoWatch: It’s a story of paradise lost for some Pennsylvania residents who are confronted with a natural gas transmission compressor station that has altered life in their rural towns. The Delaware Riverkeeper Network video highlights another one of the problems caused by the pipelines and the infrastructure used to transport shale gas. The Delaware River Basin Commission holds a public hearing tomorrow on the group’s petition that the agency begin regulating pipelines in the Delaware River watershed.
Activists Barricade Themselves Inside Pipe to Halt Keystone XL Construction
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on December 3rd, 2012
EcoWatch: Several protestors with Tar Sands Blockade sealed themselves inside a section of pipe destined for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to stop construction of the dangerous project. Using a blockading technique never implemented before, Matt Almonte and Glen Collins locked themselves between two barrels of concrete weighing more than six hundred pounds each. Located twenty-five feet into a pipe segment waiting to be laid in the ground, the outer barrel is barricading the pipe’s opening and neither...
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