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Long Beach, NY: Ban Fracking/Halt Port Ambrose LNG Port Rally 10/19/13

Posted on September 29, 2013 by iwilder

Attend the upcoming Global Frackdown in Long Beach!  Global Frackdown 2–There is an important rally scheduled for Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM on the Long Beach boardwalk. Many groups and individuals concerned about our threatened environment are coming together to urge a ban on fracking and a halt to the misguided plan to build a LNG facility […]

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Fracking linked to earthquakes

Posted on July 12, 2013 by kwilder

Earthquakes are evidently enough to shake people up. “Fracking” is trending on Yahoo. Below is the current news, and some previous onthewilderside warnings that hydraulic fracturing to find natural gas causes earthquakes. (Also, a video to remind Long Islanders that we can get earthquakes, too.) (excerpt from) Reuters Study raises new concern about earthquakes and […]

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Yoko Ono gets serious (and silly) about fracking

Posted on July 16, 2012 by kwilder

Fracking stuff: (See video of Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Jimmy Fallon singing about fracking at the readmore…) Do you know what fracking is? It is a method of pumping water and chemicals underground, and then drilling horizontally in shale formations for natural gas. Fracking has been linked to earthquakes happening in areas near to, […]

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Does fracking cause earthquakes?: Expert in Ohio says, yes.

Posted on January 4, 2012 by kwilder

KW writes: I hope that with this admission from Ohio that fracking literally shakes the earth under our homes and feet, more folks in New York will struggle against fracking. I wonder how many people previously believed that man-made activity could cause earthquakes? This is eye-opening news. See links to fracking info for New York […]

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NY, Don’t Get Suckered by a Fracking Distraction in NJ

Posted on November 20, 2011 by iwilder

IW:  I was at an environmental meeting tonight and people were talking about an urgent meeting we all had to go to tomorrow in New Jersey to prevent fracking in New York.  None of them seemed to understand what the meeting was about, but insisted it was the way to stop fracking in NY.  I […]

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Green Party of New York Denounces DEC Report, Calls for Ban on Hydrofracking

Posted on September 8, 2011 by iwilder

The Green Party of New York State is outraged in the latest DEC release on hydrofracking for natural gas and calls for a total ban on the practice. DEC’s report makes it clear that the state’s primary focus is clearing the way for the petro-chemical industry to reap enormous profits, cloaked in the language of […]

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Fracking: Things Find a Way

Posted on September 3, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L0xgsCmmeQ&NR=1] Things always find a way to happen … A pen leaking. Your shoelace coming untied. Toxic chemicals in your drinking water. What?! Earthjustice released a great video short earlier this month explaining the threats posed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for unconventional gas, including water contamination, an exploding house, dead livestock, and health impacts on […]

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Fracking Hurting Health Right Now

Posted on August 26, 2011 by iwilder

Carl and Judy Stiles of Sugar Run, in Bradford County, were told by a toxicologist to get out of their home last November after theyd been suffering severe abdominal pain, muscle tremors, dizziness, racing heart and other cardiac symptoms for months.   They live not far from where the Susquehanna River began bubbling with gas […]

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Did Fracking Cause the Virginia Earthquake?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by iwilder

Update for November 2011: Fracking could be to blame for earthquakes in Oklahoma. Story: here. ______________________________ According to geologists, it isn’t the fracking itself that is linked to earthquakes, but the re-injection of waste salt water (as much as 3 million gallons per well) deep into rock beds. Braxton County West Virginia (160 miles from […]

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Activists Frack Themselves

Posted on June 30, 2011 by iwilder

During last year’s election, anti-fracking activists wasted time protesting Andrew Cuomo.  He could care less.  All he cared about was money and votes, and they did not get in the way of either.  Fracking activists ignored calls to raise funds for and get votes for fracking-ban governor candidates like the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins.  Now […]

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Gasland’s Josh Fox honored on Long Island (via Ecobeth)

Posted on May 24, 2011 by iwilder

The Citizen’s Campaign for the Environment, a statewide New York based environmental organization, honored Josh Fox, creator of the Academy Award nominated film Gasland, at its annual gala this past week. Gasland was the film that shed light on the controversial issue of hydrofracking for natural gas in the shale under areas of the country including […]

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Sign Green Party Petition to Ban Fracking

Posted on May 10, 2011 by iwilder

A hydrofracking moratorium has been in place in New York for the past two years while the state Department of Environmental Conservation DEC does its environmental review. The moratorium issued by Gov. Paterson by executive order expires July 1, 2011. It was a symbolic gesture at best. When the DEC review is complete, the state […]

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NYT: Fracking Injects Millions of Gallons of Hazardous Chemicals Into Wells

Posted on April 23, 2011 by iwilder

Oil and gas companies injected hundreds of millions of gallons of hazardous or carcinogenic chemicals into wells in more than 13 states from 2005 to 2009, according to an investigation by Congressional Democrats. The chemicals were used by companies during a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, which involves the high-pressure injection of […]

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NY Green Party to Guv: Ban Nukes & Fracking, Invest in Green Jobs & Economy

Posted on April 21, 2011 by iwilder

The Green Party of New York observed Earth Day today by calling upon Governor Cuomo to support a ban on hydrofracking for natural gas and an immediate shut down of not only Indian Point but the nuclear reactors at Fitzpatrick and Nine Mile Point Unit 1 that are the same design as the Fukushima Daiichi […]

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