Category: New York
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Fracking Economics Revealed as Shale Gas Bubble, Not Silver Bullet
“Given the true potential, limitations, and both financial and environmental costs of the energy panaceas being touted by industry and government proponents, it will simply not be possible to drill and frack our way to ‘energy independence’ …
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High School Students Rally to Protect Seneca Lake from Fracking Infrastructure
For their class project, the students chose to focus on the plans of an out-of-state corporation, Inergy, which include a proposal for an industrial gas storage and transport hub on the shores of nearby Seneca Lake …
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Steingraber Calls Out Illinois Fracking Regulations
Before environmental lobbyists and legislators push a hydraulic fracking bill through the Illinois legislature, they need to sit down with farmers in Clinton County and learn how well regulations …
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Hundreds March for Ban on Fracking and End to Democratic Governors Taking Dirty Money
Today a coalition led by Americans Against Fracking, 350.org, Democracy for America and Food & Water Watch, among others marched at the Spring Policy Conference of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) calling for a ban on fracking and demanding …
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After One Arrest, Sit In Continues Demanding Moratorium on Fracking
After sitting in at the Governor’s office on Tuesday demanding a meeting—after being denied a meeting for countless months and many requests—Angie Viands was arrested for refusing to leave. This morning, two more Illinoisans resumed the sit in …