New York Farmers Tractor Blockade Construction of Massive Fracked Gas Power Plant
From Sane Energy Project (Facebook) Three New York farmers and an educator arrested for tractor blockade to halt construction of massive fracked gas power plant in Dutchess County, New Milford, CT. The proposed Cricket Valley Energy Center construction site is a massive 1100-megawatt gas-fired power plant under construction in Dover, New York. Full article: https://bit.ly/2Cvi3Is Opponents of the plant say if construction is completed and the power plant is allowed to begin o
TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT THE UNIST'OT'EN CLAN AND WET'SUWET'EN HEREDITARY CHIEFS
URGENT: This just in from the Unist'ot'en Camp (facebook): In an outrageous display of colonial arrogance Justice Marguerite Church has ruled that TransCanada/ Coastal GasLink can start site work preparation for its fracked gas pipeline on Unist’ot’en/ Wet’suwet’en territory as early as this Monday (Dec. 17). https://aptnnews.ca/2018/12/15/judge-rules-unistoten-gate-must-come-down-for-pipeline/?fbclid=IwAR2brl2EjjCi46ECgUzE1eJ618qFmCSxat6wTCj8IrHINspilyS4_mQdEPY Church also r
Appalachians Against Pipelines - They Won't Back Down!
From Appalachians Against Pipelines: Two anonymous snowpeople have locked themselves together, blockading all entrance to the tree sits (standing strong in their 97th day!) on Yellow Finch Lane. All work on Yellow Finch Lane has been blocked! The protesters issued the following joint statement: "We snowpeople, protectors of childhood homes and wintertime nostalgia, are taking action today in solidarity with the Yellow Finch tree sitters and their fight against extraction, cap
Workshop: Water Ways Fracking Game for Physicians for Social Responsibility PA Health Check-Up
Water Ways is an interactive illustrated project created to tell the stories of water and the effects that the natural gas industry has on the area commonly known as Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Each illustration consists of dozens of small vignettes that highlight people's struggles as they strive to protect the water and land on which we all survive. In our interactive presentations, we discuss fracking, the dangers and perceived benefits, politics in Pennsylvania that supp
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"I'm Home" [from jail] - Ellen Sue Gerhart
Via Ellen Sue Gerhart "I'm home." "Those two words are packed with enormous emotion, more than I ever thought possible. For the past two months I have been incarcerated in the Centre County Correctional Facility in Bellefonte, PA, by order of Huntingdon County Judge George Zanic, for indirect contempt of an order he issued in favor of Energy Transfer Partners' construction of the dangerous and still incomplete Mariner East 2 pipeline. My family, supporters, and I have fought
Workshop: Environmental Organizing Trainings
We had the pleasure of coordinating environmental organizing trainings for high school students at Highland Park High in New Jersey part of the annual student-run EcoFest that takes place! Our trainer Alex Lotorto created an exercise where the students drew their ideal communities quickly followed by Halliburton coming in with its fracking infrastructure to destroy them. What did the students do?... They powerfully fought back hard to regain local control. Thanks to Alex for
Press Release: Federal Court Sanctions Lawyers for Defending Community’s Right to Say “No” to Frack
Photo by Keith Boyer/The Contently Foundation Court Awards $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company and Calls for Disciplinary Action Against Attorney FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mari Margil
mmargil@celdf.org
(503) 381-1755 MERCERSBURG, PA: Today, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued an order imposing sanctions on two attorneys defending a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance adopted by Grant Township, Pennsylvania. The Township has spent years f
More Proof Of What We've Known For Years: Fracking Harms The People Living Close To It
Photo by Matt Rourke/AP This photo is from Governor Wolf's inauguration three years ago, when eight people were arrested for demanding a ban on fracking. We'll keep asking: Governor Wolf and the PA Legislature: how many underweight babies are worth fracking's short-term economic benefit? New, Major Evidence That Fracking Harms Human Health A child born very close to a well is likely to be smaller and less healthy than a child born farther away. Read the article from Robinson
Project Partner: Water Ways - An Illustrated Series
Water Ways is a series of illustrations telling the story of how the natural gas industry impacts ecosystems, politics, communities, water, and resistance in so-called Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the surrounding area. To date. a large 13' x 10' display print is available for guided, interactive presentations and 27" x 39" posters are available for donation accompanied by a narrative booklet that will guide you through the story. Project website: https://www.thewaterways.org/
PA Supreme Court Brings New Life Into PA Environmental Rights Amendment
"Much has been written and talked about the impact of the Supreme Court Decision in PEDF v. Governor Wolf, decided a week ago on June 20, 2017, on the development of the meaning of our Environmental Amendment, Article I § 27. The reason why the PEDF brought the action in the first place was to stop the destruction of our State Forests and Parks from the extraction of natural gas and oil. In early 2012, when PEDF first brought the action in Commonwealth Court, 660,000 acres of
