It's a Lie, It's a Sham, It won't Work
The gas industry is spending millions of dollars to sell the merits of drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale. But how much of their propaganda is actually true?
Gasland 2 with Josh Fox - Pittsburgh
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3 weeks 5 days from now A coalition of SWPA groups including anti fracking grassroots groups, will host Josh Fox on his Gasland 2 opening tour.
Admission will be free - donations accepted at the door. No tickets for the screening - seating is first come/first served.
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"Center for Sustainable Shale" is industry greenwashing, grassroots tells Environmental Defense Fund
May 24 2013The so-called "Center for Sustainable Shale Development" is attracting more criticism from grassroots environmental groups. [See our April newsletter.] On May 22, a joint letter was issued from 68 grassroots advocacy organizations to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), accusing EDF of contributing to the 'greenwashing' of toxic fracking.
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Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
May 10 2013"Pennsylvania farming communities are being turned into huge, open-air laboratories by energy companies eager to make North America a twenty-first-century Saudi Arabia, with ordinary people serving as its guinea pigs. And those people are paying a heavy price: mystery illnesses, dead animals, polluted water, land made worthless, and the loss of a way of life. In the midst of this new hell, however, there’s also hope.
[from Nick Turse's introduction to Ellen Cantarow's report]
Click this link for the original story, with many links to related information. (We reprint the story here to facilitate searching.)
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How to Stop Fracking - Strategy Session
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6 days 21 hours from now How to Stop Fracking: Tools and Strategies to Get Us to a Ban
Friends Meeting House (Pittsburgh)
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From an April 29, 2013, Press Release from the University of Pittsburgh
