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More than 150 New York communities have bans/moratoriums - Looks like someone is getting just a little defensive about all those really bad investments in shale gas…

Fracking Industry Asks NY Court to Throw Out Gas Drilling Bans

“Our client, the Town of Dryden, is prepared to continue fighting to preserve its way of life from the consequences of oil and gas development and we’ll fight alongside them until this matter is resolved once and for all.”

http://ecowatch.com/2013/fracking-industry-n-y-court-appeals-bans/

MUST WATCH! Support our Indigenous communities as they stand up for ALL of us!

VIDEO: The Devastating Legacy of Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction

Watch this powerful video from Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, Our Back is Against the Wall, featuring Ponca elders Carter Camp and Casey Camp-Horinek describing the devastating legacy of oil exploitation in their communities in present day Oklahoma.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/devastating-legacy-fossil-fuel-extraction/

There WASN’T ENOUGH water to frack this site, so they took it DIRECTLY FROM the local municipal water supply!

Fracking Creates Water Scarcity Issues in Michigan

Concerns about the impact to local groundwater by massive water use—on a scale never before seen in Michigan fracking operations—are coming to a head …

http://ecowatch.com/2013/fracking-water-scarcity-issues-imichigan/

Isn’t Nevada in the middle of a WATER CRISIS? What are they thinking?!

Nevada Fracking Bill Disregards Environmental & Human Health

The controversial technique—currently unregulated and unmonitored by state officials—is being proposed for use on more than 350,000 acres of public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management in central Nevada.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/nevada-fracking-bill-disregards-environmental-human-health/

Stop the Frack Attack, Idaho!

Wild Idaho Rising Tide will be distributing regional and national media releases opposing the permit, and coordinate protests at Idaho Department of Lands offices throughout the state during the Stop the Frack Attack Week of Action, June 3 to 9.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/stop-the-frack-attack-idaho/

Dirty Energy & Fear Successfully Overturn Fort Collins Fracking Ban

The mere threat of a lawsuit from the only fracking company in town—Prospect Energy—was enough to send the city council cowering in submission, placing the entire town at risk of the negative health impacts associated with fracking.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/dirty-energy-overturns-fort-collins-fracking-ban/

Why Colorado Residents Can’t Keep the Fracking Industry Out of Their Backyards

“The city manager told the council that he thought the city had done a stellar job of answering all questions except the questions concerning public health. But he said that shouldn’t concern the council since the public’s health was a matter of state and federal concern. It was not their responsibility.”

http://ecowatch.com/2013/colorado-residents-cant-keep-fracking-out-their-backyards/

Democratic Governors Received $3.5 Million in Dirty Energy Money in Last Five Years

“While it’s pretty evident that the oil and gas industry has long had strong support from within the Republican Party, what might not be obvious is how much financial support the industry has given to the Democrats, specifically to Democratic governors.”

http://ecowatch.com/2013/democratic-governors-received-3-5-million-in-dirty-energy-money-in-last-five-years/

Wake Up World Leaders: Expedite Renewable Energy, End Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies

The global temperature is rising. Freak weather events are multiplying. Climate change is happening. And yet governments are giving $6 to polluting fossil fuels for every $1 that goes to clean renewables.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/wake-up-world-leaders-expedite-renewable-energy-end-global-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

Fugitive Methane Emissions: The Climate Implications of U.S. Shale Gas Exports

In addition to habitat disruption and impacts on local air and water quality, one of the most significant implications of natural gas production is fugitive methane emissions …

… methane is a potent greenhouse gas—at least 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide. In fact, this fugitive methane amounts to more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the direct and indirect emissions from U.S. iron and steel, cement and aluminum manufacturing combined.

Domestically, LNG exports would likely raise natural gas prices, resulting in the greater use of coal for U.S. electric power generation.

In order to send natural gas overseas, you must liquefy it, transport it and then re-gasify it. This is an extremely energy- and emissions-intensive process.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/fugitive-methane-emissions-climate-implications-oshale-gas-exports/