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National Anti-Fracking Group Launched...
Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram
A new group called Americans Against Fracking, which claims more than 100 members including environmental, civic and religious groups, said it seeks a national ban on hydraulic fracturing "and drilling associated with fracking."
The group in a news release says that efforts to regulate the industry have been unsuccessful and only an outright ban will suffice, along with restrictions on related oil and gas production activities.
"Americans Against Fracking supports federal, state and local efforts to ban fracking and to stop practices that facilitate fracking like natural gas exports, frac(ture) sand mining and pipeline construction." It calls for a move away from fossil fuels toward renewables. The group's website is here.
Read more: http://blogs.star-telegram.com/barnett_shale/2012/12/national-anti-fracking-group-launched.html
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... or maybe he realised that outrageous lies, distortion and propaganda
aren't terribly welcome around here ...?
Nevermind
{Whatever you do, don't click on the cricket}
They were right about that.
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the first Earth Day. This is what the Democratic Party is supposed to be about. I've worked with PIRG and other groups in the past. They are not fools.
The only argument I can see to make one reluctant to mobilize is that it is an old and dirty environmental practice and by that reasoning, it's tried and true, so don't make a fuss. But we've had terrible practices since this country began, destroying the life giving properties of the land, air and water.
They were cleaned up with regulations and that has been gutted since the Reagan era. It hasn't stopped, and the GOP has sold the poor on the belief that a clean ecosystem is a luxury they can't afford. This is wrong.
Some may say that there have been improvements made, but as Obama stopped the first of the fracking in tribal country, the input of the people has to be taken into account. But those who are making money off of it, like those who make money off of mountain removal to get at coal, will defend it vigorously.
In a weaker economy than in the past, people are going for it because they feel they have no choice. There is a big problem with mineral rights not going along with real estate property owners for those who in areas that the oil companies want to frack. Americans need to unite to fight this.
Environmentalism was a core Democratic Party value as I've known it, but it's been demonized for so long, it's barely in the debates, not national and certainly not on the local level. It's a real hard sell to get neighbors who see a big check coming from fracking, either by selling what's under their land or working the rigs, to say 'No.'
Guess in the end, this is what we have to work against, and we in the cities are really not in charge of it:
The only argument I can see to make one reluctant to mobilize is that it is an old and dirty environmental practice and by that reasoning, it's tried and true, so don't make a fuss. But we've had terrible practices since this country began, destroying the life giving properties of the land, air and water.
They were cleaned up with regulations and that has been gutted since the Reagan era. It hasn't stopped, and the GOP has sold the poor on the belief that a clean ecosystem is a luxury they can't afford. This is wrong.
Some may say that there have been improvements made, but as Obama stopped the first of the fracking in tribal country, the input of the people has to be taken into account. But those who are making money off of it, like those who make money off of mountain removal to get at coal, will defend it vigorously.
In a weaker economy than in the past, people are going for it because they feel they have no choice. There is a big problem with mineral rights not going along with real estate property owners for those who in areas that the oil companies want to frack. Americans need to unite to fight this.
Environmentalism was a core Democratic Party value as I've known it, but it's been demonized for so long, it's barely in the debates, not national and certainly not on the local level. It's a real hard sell to get neighbors who see a big check coming from fracking, either by selling what's under their land or working the rigs, to say 'No.'
Guess in the end, this is what we have to work against, and we in the cities are really not in charge of it:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine's “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group's achievement helped spawn over 190 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe.
Mr. Kennedy serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City.
He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development.
Among Mr. Kennedy's published books are the New York Times’ bestseller Crimes Against Nature (2004), The Riverkeepers (1997), and Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr: A Biography (1977) and two children’s books St Francis of Assisi (2005), American Heroes: Joshua Chamberlain and the American Civil War and Robert Smalls: The Boat Thief (2008). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Nation, Outside Magazine, The Village Voice, and many other publications. His award winning articles have been included in anthologies of America’s Best Crime Writing, Best Political Writing and Best Science Writing.
Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. Following graduation he attended Pace University School of Law, where he was awarded a Masters Degree in Environmental Law.
He is a licensed master falconer, and as often as possible he pursues a life-long enthusiasm for white-water paddling. He has organized and led several expeditions in Canada and Latin America, including first descents on three little known rivers in Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.
http://www.waterkeeper.org/ht/d/sp/i/10558/pid/10558
...And with 8 years of oil men in the WH -- virtually all the hard-fought environmental regulation over oil & gas has been eviscerated. Family values? 
They need to be stopped! 
