May 24th - Southern West Virgina: Pro-mountain activists blockade mountaintop removal haul road & board a coal barge on nearby river
Above photos by Diann Kelli.
photo by Brandon HillMay 28th - Charleston, West Virginia: 20 women from across Appalachia shave their heads…
New film to feature Riverdale along with other fracking stories
Pls SHARE &/or consider backing this solid KickStarter film project that will FEATURE THE RIVERDALE story & uses fracking to demonstrate how the tide must surely turn in this fracked-up world. This young woman knows what it means to not quit - she has walked the 7800-mile length of the Andes Mountains! “Backyard” is a story of seeing broadly & considering the greater good. Told via animations & people’s experiences with fracking. Oh, and P.S. ONLY 5 Days Left!!!! Please share widely, thnx. More details about Deia & BackYard at link > http://kck.st/KuNpvp The film will cover Pennsylvania, Colorado & North Dakota.
Great Henry Fair photo, five great articles on fracking - beginning in Feb. 2012 -
Detail from the following J Henry Fair image:
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Columbia Township, PA ~ April 2010
“Hydro-fracking compressor trucks arranged around well head”
Hydro-fracking requires millions of gallons a day of water, mixed with a variety of chemicals, all pumped under massive pressure by an array of compressor on trucks.
Image © J Henry Fair / J Henry Fair’s first book, The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis
Find out more at www.IndustrialScars.com.
Consider yourself invited to join the eviction resistance at Pennsylvania fracking site
A week into the resident-led occupation of a mobile home park in Jersey Shore, PA, the following message has been circulated by the fine folks with Occupy Well Street. Basically, it’s on…
Save Riverdale: Urgent Call for Support
“I was here to protect my home. Within a week I realized why the hell would I protect a house with water I can’t drink. It’s still about the house, but it’s more about this land and that water. As long as you’re willing to stand, stay here, and bring more: this isn’t over yet” –Riverdale Resident
article here: http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/a-free-state-against-fracking/#
This Thursday morning, June 7, 2012, former landlord came to the Riverdale mobile home park and demolished the blockade residents & Occupiers had erected to protect the community being re-built.
Help make a stand in Riverdale - Save Riverdale, Save Community, Save the River
Help Make A Stand in the Heart of Pennsylvania and in the heart of movement against fracking and its destruction of community, family, clean water, land and air.
Eric and April, with their kids, the blockades and the volunteers. (by Save Riverdale)
FB PAGE http://www.facebook.com/SaveRiverdale
LOGISTICS, what’s NEEDED http://www.saveriverdale.com/
EVENT (ongoing) https://www.facebook.com/events/449395411756712/
MAP http://goo.gl/maps/Wz7D
EMAIL SaveRMHC@gmail.com
REPORTS w/ links to more info:
— http://stanleyrogouski.com/blog/stanley_w_rogouski/2012/06/support-hands-across-riverdale.html
— http://ohiofracktion.com/2012/06/02/help-us-keep-the-river-in-riverdale-day-of-action-for-riverdale-monday-june-4/
— http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/resistance-at-riverdale-its-a-huge-blockade/
— http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2012/06/report-back-and-call-out-for-solidarity.html
— http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2012/06/05/hands-across-riverdale-occupy-well-street-responds-to-fracking-
refugees/
PHOTOS! (FB) http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=38810784
(FLICKR) http://bit.ly/MyvY2v Riverdale Community
(FLICKR) http://bit.ly/M3QHEE Public Herald
(FLICKR) http://bit.ly/MdrYOs Elias Schewel
LIVESTREAM > http://t.co/eet3Ulk7 Also 11 VIDEOS archived
VIDEO (4 min) http://bit.ly/MMbhQJ Residents’ stories (Raw Story)
(15 min) http://bit.ly/L60TPB Residents Stories (part 6)
(8 min) http://bit.ly/LonR6Y Background - Residents’ in May (part 7)
(9 min.) http://bit.ly/Mywrl3 Background - update now
(3 min) http://bit.ly/Mz88DD Which Side R U On
( 6 min) http://bit.ly/MzR1S9 Background - current
TWITTER > https://twitter.com/SaveRMHC > @SaveRMHC
BLOG http://smalltruck.tumblr.com/tagged/fracking
(via frackfree)
FB PAGE http://www.facebook.com/SaveRiverdale
LOGISTICS, what’s NEEDED http://www.saveriverdale.com/
EVENT (ongoing) https://www.facebook.com/events/449395411756712/
MAP http://goo.gl/maps/Wz7D
EMAIL SaveRMHC@gmail.com
REPORTS w/ links to more info:
— http://stanleyrogouski.com/blog/stanley_w_rogouski/2012/06/support-hands-across-riverdale.html
— http://ohiofracktion.com/2012/06/02/help-us-keep-the-river-in-riverdale-day-of-action-for-riverdale-monday-june-4/
— http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/resistance-at-riverdale-its-a-huge-blockade/
— http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2012/06/report-back-and-call-out-for-solidarity.html
— http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2012/06/05/hands-across-riverdale-occupy-well-street-responds-to-fracking-
refugees/
PHOTOS! (FB) http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=38810784
(FLICKR) http://bit.ly/MyvY2v Riverdale Community
(FLICKR) http://bit.ly/M3QHEE Public Herald
(FLICKR) http://bit.ly/MdrYOs Elias Schewel
LIVESTREAM > http://t.co/eet3Ulk7 Also 11 VIDEOS archived
VIDEO (4 min) http://bit.ly/MMbhQJ Residents’ stories (Raw Story)
(15 min) http://bit.ly/L60TPB Residents Stories (part 6)
(8 min) http://bit.ly/LonR6Y Background - Residents’ in May (part 7)
(9 min.) http://bit.ly/Mywrl3 Background - update now
(3 min) http://bit.ly/Mz88DD Which Side R U On
( 6 min) http://bit.ly/MzR1S9 Background - current
TWITTER > https://twitter.com/SaveRMHC > @SaveRMHC
BLOG http://smalltruck.tumblr.com/tagged/fracking
(via frackfree)
The Human Face of Fracking
The residents of the Riverdale Motor Home Park, on the banks on the Susquahanna River, face eviction from their homes to make way for a fracking pump station run by Aqua America in Jersey Shore, PA on June 4, 2012.
Originally a community of 37 families, there are 6 families still taking a stand against their eviction. The residents, most of them low income, were offered $2,500 payments to help them relocate. Residents said that estimates for relocating a mobile home range from $6,500 to $10,000.
Alexa, age 14, gave me a tour of her former home, wistfully showing me where her room was, where her bed had been, her desk and that she and her father had planned to paint clouds on her ceiling. Their mobile home is now stripped of anything valuable and they rent a smaller mobile home in another park which she says they can’t afford.
Alexa said, “We always thought that the river would rise and flood our home, we never thought our community would be destroyed like this”.
The property had been rezoned as industrial by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission and had given permission for Aqua America to withdraw up to 3 million gallons of water from the river every day.
All the LINKS:
FB PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/SaveRiverdale
LOGISTICS, what’s NEEDED: http://www.saveriverdale.com/
EVENT (ongoing): https://www.facebook.com/events/449395411756712/
MAP: http://goo.gl/maps/Wz7D
THE CALL-IN ACTION: www.facebook.com/events/402454269797063/402521649790325/
REPORTS w/ links to more info:
— http://stanleyrogouski.com/blog/stanley_w_rogouski/2012/06/support-hands-across-riverdale.html
— http://ohiofracktion.com/2012/06/02/help-us-keep-the-river-in-riverdale-day-of-action-for-riverdale-monday-june-4/
— http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/resistance-at-riverdale-its-a-huge-blockade/
— http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2012/06/report-back-and-call-out-for-solidarity.html
— http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2012/06/05/hands-across-riverdale-occupy-well-street-responds-to-fracking-refugees/
PHOTOS! (FB): http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=38810784
PHOTOS: (FLICKR): http://bit.ly/MyvY2v Riverdale
PHOTOS: (FLICKR): http://bit.ly/M3QHEE Public Herald
PHOTOS (FLICKR) http://bit.ly/MdrYOs Elias Schewel
LIVESTREAM > http://t.co/eet3Ulk7 & 5 VIDEOS
VIDEO (9 min.): http://bit.ly/Mywrl3
VIDEO (3 min.): http://bit.ly/Mz88DD
VIDEO ( : http://bit.ly/MzR1S9
TWITTER > https://twitter.com/SaveRMHC handle > @SaveRMHC
Great graphics by revolutionarycinema:
Some Fracking Facts…
also see: http://www.ewg.org/analysis/usgs-recent-earthquakes-almost-certainly-manmade
“The USGS authors said they do not know why oil and gas activity might cause an increase in earthquakes but a possible explanation is the increase in the number of wells drilled over the past decade and the increase in fluid used in the hydraulic fracturing of each well. The combination of factors is likely creating far larger amounts of wastewater that companies often inject into underground disposal wells. Scientists have linked these disposal wells to earthquakes since as early as the 1960s. The injections can induce seismicity by changing pressure and adding lubrication along faults.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that between 1991 and 2000, oil and gas companies drilled 245,000 wells in the U.S. compared to 405,000 wells between 2001 and 2010 – a 65 percent increase.1 As an example of how much more fracking fluid is used, New York state’s review of oil and natural gas drilling regulations in 1988 assumed that companies would use between 20,000 and 80,000 gallons of fluid for hydraulic fracturing per well.2 The state’s 2011 review of regulations for natural gas drilling in shale formations assumed that companies would use 2.4 million to 7.8 million gallons of fluid per well – a 100-fold increase.3”
