Groundwater threatened by industrial injection of 30 trillion gallons of...
By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation’s...
View ArticleNew study says fracking may be pushing Marcellus Shale minerals into aquifers
By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania’s natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking...
View ArticlePeter Rugh: The Frack War Comes Home
By Peter Rugh / Waging Nonviolence The war came home this weekend, as thousands of people whose land has been under siege by the U.S. government and corporate interests gathered in Washington, D.C. No,...
View ArticleOil and gas drillers have injected more than 10 trillion gallons of...
By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. There, under a steel shed,...
View ArticleFracking corporation turns Louisiana bayou country into toxic sinkhole
By Mike Ludwig / TruthOut For residents in Assumption Parish, the boiling, gas-belching bayou, with its expanding toxic sinkhole and quaking earth is no longer a mystery; but there is little comfort in...
View ArticleStudy indicates natural gas drilling could be even worse for climate than coal
By Joe Romm / Think Progress Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reconfirmed earlier findings of high rates of methane leakage from natural gas fields. If...
View ArticleMora County, NM passes ordinance banning all oil and gas extraction
By Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Earlier today, the County Commission of Mora County, located in Northeastern New Mexico, became the first county in the United States to pass an ordinance...
View ArticlePress Release: Anti-Fracking Activists Drop Banner in Illinois Capitol
By Rising Tide Chicago To the cheers and applause of the dozens of supporters below, anti-fracking activists unfurled a two-story banner with “Don’t Frack Illinois,” from the balcony of the state...
View ArticleActivists shut down port of Vancouver in solidarity with Elsipogtog people
By Murray Bush / Vancouver Media Co-op COAST SALISH TERRITORY – Activists blocked access to the federal Port of Vancouver for an hour early this morning as part of an International Day of Action in...
View ArticleAfter fracking company sponsors museum, activists threaten symbolic...
By Natalie Bochenski / Sydney Morning Herald An anti-fracking activist group will “poison” a major work at the Gallery of Modern Art to protest its sponsorship by Santos. Generation Alpha said...
View ArticleLuutkudziiwus to Launch Court Challenge to Prince Rupert Gas Pipeline
By Luutkudziiwus / Intercontinental Cry VANCOUVER – Luutkudziiwus, a Gitxsan Nation House Group, will file a legal challenge in regard to the BC regulatory permits awarded to the Prince Rupert Gas...
View ArticleGender and a Dying Planet
By Tara Prema / Gender Is War Recently we asked, “What the hell does gender have to do with fracking?” We weren’t being flippant – it’s a question that plagues many of us. The question came up because...
View ArticlePennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience
New Law Shields People from Arrest for Protesting Project By Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Grant Township, Indiana County, PA: Grant Township Supervisors passed a first-in-the-nation law...
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Federal Agents Went Undercover To Spy on Anti-Fracking Movement, Emails Reveal
Featured image: Break Free protesters at a fracking site in Colorado on May 14. (Photo: Christian O’Rourke/Survival Media Agency) By Steve Horn and Lee Fang / The Intercept When more than 300...
View ArticleClimate Activists Shut Down National Grid Office in Brooklyn, Demanding...
By ResistAIM Brooklyn, NY – Concerned New Yorkers blocked the doors of National Grid’s downtown Brooklyn office at noon on Monday, August 29 to protest their support of Spectra Energy’s AIM Pipeline, a...
View ArticleFighting Against Fracking In Colombia
Featured image: Fracking well. The damage that causes earthquakes seems to occur after the drilling, when the wastewater is injected deep underground, stimulating existing fault lines. Indigenous and...
View ArticleMi’kmag Traditional Chiefs Oppose Junex Projects in Gaspesie, Quebec
by Traditional Mi’kmag 1st & 7th District Chiefs / Intercontinental Cry Today, we traditional council chiefs from the 1st and the 7th Districts of Mi’kma’ki have gathered at the Junexit...
View ArticlePonca Nation of Oklahoma to Recognize the Rights of Nature to Stop Fracking
Featured image: Casey Camp-Horinek with her granddaughter by Movement Rights / via Intercontinental Cry San Francisco, CA – After suffering for years with poisoned water and serious health issues...
View ArticleNew York State Wins Latest Round in Battle with Pipeline & Federal Agency
by Protect Orange County and Stop the Minisink Compression Station In a move that is being widely celebrated by both activists and national environmental rights groups, this afternoon, the US...
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Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests
Featured image: On August 31, 2016, “Happy” American Horse from the Sicangu Nation locked himself to construction equipment as a direct action against the Dakota Access pipeline. Credit: Desiree Kane,...
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