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in a year, you’d have enough to fill your whole house, I assume.* Also: Do
not smoke near that.
Rural America: Poorer, less populous, less powerful — but now
with fracking!
It is the best of times and the worst of times for rural America. On the
one hand, they’re the only ones among us who’ve been getting richer
lately. Thanks, fracking!
Imagine There’s No Fracking … Give Clean Energy a Chance
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon placed a full-page ad in the Dec. 10 New
York Times, calling on Governor Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking
… give clean energy a chance.” The ad illustrates and describes how
cement in wells at such great depths leaks, poisoning drinking water with
gases and toxic chemicals.
Interview with Ecologist and Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra
Steingraber
Sandra Steingraber’s gentle voice belies her fierce outrage at the
destruction of Earth and human life, a rage that has driven her to devote
herself to combating the chemical contaminants that endanger our wellbeing.
An ecologist, cancer survivor, poet, and mother, Steingraber has
authored three critically acclaimed books that explore the environmental
toxins that permeate our land, air, water and food.
Colorado Water Struggles Highlight Impact of Fracking on
Farming
Fracking—known more formally as hydraulic fracturing—produces
roughly 25 percent of the U.S. natural gas supply. This increasingly
common practice uses pressurized fluid to release trapped oil or natural
gas from a well, and has been praised for lowering energy prices. But
concerns about fracking’s impacts on human health and the environment
have caused many to question its expansion. And now, according to a
recent article by Jack Healy of the New York Times, the debate has
become even more contentious in the state of Colorado.
Fracking corporation turns Louisiana bayou country into toxic
sinkhole