Did you hear the joke about how fracking creates jobs?
We heard it, too. We heard it from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We heard …
A Quinnipiac University poll released March 20, 2013 shows statewide opposition to fracking is growing. The new poll finds opponents outnumbering supporters …
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A third upstate New York town has won a court challenge to its ban on natural gas …
This document makes a very important point, which is that any moratorium period should be devoted not only to studying health impacts, but also the economic impact issues.
The state’s top health regulator on Tuesday signaled he would need more time to complete his review …
Refuses to Release Scientific Reports that Proposed HVHF Regulations are Premised Upon
As the DEC and Governor Cuomo contemplate their next step in the ongoing sham of a fracking review process, the DEC continues to refuse to release the scientific …
When industry has blocked the EPA from studying or regulating 70,000 chemicals, (from BPA and flame retardants to potent neurotoxins), since 1975, why would regulating fracking be possible?
Posing a safety debate tempts people to ignore the unsavory thirty-year history …
Its contents remain mostly a mystery. But fracking wastewater has revealed one of its secrets: It can be highly radioactive. And yet no agency really regulates its handling, transport or disposal. A four-part series on radiation in fracking wastewater …
From our coalition, New Yorkers Against Fracking: CALL-IN WEEK to Governor Cuomo.
Damascus Citizens is a working member of New Yorkers Against Fracking.
CLICK HERE to download the poster below as a pdf.
CLICK HERE to download an alternate poster …
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. — Mahatma Gandhi
1. I am writing you from …
Residents of Western Pennsylvania and friends of Lawrence County farmer Maggie Henry locked themselves to a giant paper-mache pig today in the entrance to a Shell natural gas well …
CLICK HERE to view the video.
Jessica Ernst (B.Sc., M.SC., Environmental Specialist) is a scientist who has worked in the oil and gas industry. She discovered first hand the consequences of hydraulic fracturing in her town of Rosebud, Alberta, Canada. …
