Cross Posted from NTDaily.com An FBI agent and a Dallas police officer spoke last month with philosophy and religion professor Adam Briggle about specific materials in a syllabus for one of his courses on civil disobedience. Law enforcement officials brought up an […]
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Mountain Justice Spring Break ends in protest at fracking company headquarters
On the morning of Wednesday, March 26, more than 30 anti-fracking activists from across West Virginia and Appalachia picketed the Bridgeport, West Virginia, office of EQT Energy. The group of activists were supporting two landowners, Eileen and Jim Burke, who came from […]
Continue readingFracking: ACT 13, The Worst Is Coming
Article by Steven Rosenfeld, from Alternet.org Pennsylvania, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were signed and where the U.S. coal, oil and nuclear industries began, has adopted what may be the most anti-democratic, anti-environmental law in the country, giving gas […]
Continue readingVan Eck Launches ‘Fracking’ Energy Exchange Traded Fund
Van Eck Global, a New York-based money management firm with $35 million in assets from dirty energy, today launched an energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) focused on companies that look for and produce “unconventional” sources of oil and gas, such as oil […]
Continue readingFracking News: Bulgarians Protest against Shale Gas Exploration
Some 200 people gathered on Saturday in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia to protest against the potential shale gas exploration in the country. The march started in front of the Environment Ministry building in Sofia, passed through the parliament and ended in front of […]
Continue readingFracking debate heating up in New Zealand
Heated debate over fracking, the mining process which could be used to extract gas in western Southland, is raging in the gas heartland of Taranaki. A protest group, Climate Justice Taranaki, has called for a ban or moratorium on the practice, which […]
Continue reading“Don’t Frack with Cackalack!” Three Croatan Earth First!ers arrested
Exercpt from a June 15, 2011 press release by Croatan Earth First!: Raleigh, NC – On Tuesday night, over twenty-five people showed their opposition to hydraulic fracturing and offshore drilling in North Carolina outside of the legislative building before heading inside for […]
Continue readingNew Jersey Bans Hydro-fracking
On March 10, New Jersey put a ban on the practice of hydraulic fracking for natural gas reserves. The state is following suit with New York, which instated a seven-month ban on hydraulic fracking on various natural gas drilling sites for fears […]
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