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Piedmont Direct Action Camp- Oct. 20-21, Pittsboro, NC
September 4, 2012. Source: Croatan Earth First! Are you tired of hearing about melting ice caps, climate change, vanishing wilderness, and species extinction? Do you want to stop dirty coal and...
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France says no to genetically modified crops, no to fracking
September 16, 2012. Source: Common Dreams France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops [GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental conference held in...
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Video: DON’T WORRY, DRIVE ON: Fossil Fools & Fracking Lies
Note: As we at GJEP are careful to point out, merely saying goodbye to fossil fuels is not sufficient. We must fundamentally transform the system that drives fossil fuel production and consumption and...
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Victory! With new delays, a growing sense that Gov. Andrew Cuomo will not...
By Danny Hakim, September 30, 2012. Source: New York Times ALBANY — A few months after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was poised to approve hydraulic fracturing in several struggling New York counties, his...
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Protesting fracking in support of local farms
Note: The following action occurred after a weekend long direct action training hosted by our allies with the Shadbush Environmental Justice Collective. Shadbush works to confront the root causes of...
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Victory! State University of New York closes industry-backed fracking institute
By Jim Efstathiou Jr., November 20 2012. Source: Bloomberg Businessweek State University of New York at Buffalo (85074MF) is shutting down a research institute opened seven months ago to study...
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Frack fight: A secret war of activists – with the world in the balance
By Ellen Cantarow, November 18, 2012. Source: TomDispatch There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war...
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Fracking our food supply
By Elizabeth Royte, November 28, 2012. Source: The Nation This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an investigative reporting nonprofit focusing on...
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California issues first-ever fracking regulations
Note: Looks like the Golden Age of Gas is coming to the Sunshine State. Good thing California doesn’t have to worry about water scarcity. On second thought… -The GJEP Team By Paul Rogers, December...
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Argentina: silver mine defeated —but Chevron gets fracking deal
January 1 2012. Source: WW4 Report Minera Argenta, the Argentine subsidiary of the Vancouver-based mining company Pan American Silver Corp., announced on Dec. 21 that it was suspending its Navidad...
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Nature Conservancy offset program may allow fracking in conserved forests
Note: Forest carbon offsetting schemes-like the UN REDD program (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)-do little in the way of actually reducing emissions from burning fossil...
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EPA changed course after gas company protested
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti, January 16 2013. Source: Associated Press WEATHERFORD, Texas – When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family’s drinking water had begun bubbling like champagne, the...
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Video: Fractured Land
January 21, 2013. Source: Fracturedland.com Fractured Land tells the story of a young Dene warrior from northeastern BC, taking on Big Oil and Gas to protect his land and people from the ravages of...
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Pennsylvania drilling wastes might overwhelm Ohio injection wells
Note: The conclusion of the article below – that industry just needs to learn how to better treat fracking wastewater – misses the point. We don’t need to accept that boosting domestic energy...
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More threats from fracking: radioactive waste
Pennsylvania’s DEP begins study on radioactivity from oil, gas development; follows other studies showing high levels of radium, boron By Andrea Germanos, January 25, 2013. Source: Common Dreams The...
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Dairy farms suffer in US shale gas fracking boom
By Dimiter Kenarov, January 28 2013. Source: The Ecologist When Sheila Russell decided to move back to her ancestral home in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, she wanted to start a new life. A...
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NY fracking scandal: Seven groups demand conflict of interest investigation...
By Steve Horn, February 11, 2013. Source: DeSmogBlog New York could soon become the newest state in the union to allow hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the controversial technique used to enable shale...
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New York Fracking: Towns Defend Bans As Gov. Cuomo Considers Lifting Moratorium
By Lynne Peeples, February 11, 2013. Source: Huffington Post Brewery Ommegang of upstate New York fills more than 30,000 barrels with beer every year. The primary component of the popular Belgian,...
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BREAKING: EF! & Appalachia Resist shut down & blockade fracking waste storage...
3pm on 19 February, Situation still unfolding. for updates click here MORE PHOTOS HERE. Following the annual winter Earth First! rendezvous blockading has begun at a Fracking Waste Storage Facility in...
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Lithuania delays declaration of Chevron as shale gas exploration winner due...
February 27, 2013. Source: Kyiv Post Because of public protests, the Lithuanian Environment Ministry has delayed a meeting of the Commission for Hydrocarbon Resource Exploitation scheduled for...
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