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Day 105 of 365 (Year Three)
So I got up this morning and grabbed the first shirt off of the top of the laundry basket. It just happened to be my FRACK ME shirt. I put it on and didn't think anything of it.
This afternoon, after finishing her homework. Savanah looks up at me and asks, "Daddy, what does Frack Me mean?"
Ummmmmmm, how do you explain Frack Me to a seven year old? I sort of stammered out some lame explanation of how it is an adult way expressing displeasure when something goes wrong. I also told her she wasn't allowed to say it. I can only imagine the phone call from the school when something doesn't go her way and she blurts out "Frack Me!"
Who would have thought BSG would complicate my life like this? I love that she is so inquisitive, but sometimes it can be a tad bit troublesome. Why did we ever teach her to read? LOL
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
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Manchester Friends of the Earth's Fracking day of action, Salford, Manchester, October 2013
Credit: Manchester Friends of the Earth
The Rev. Brad Bennett discusses the benefits and environmental costs of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas while standing on the service pad for a well on his family land near Jane Lew, W.Va. Brad, who pastors two United Methodist congregations in Fairmont says “I have folks who benefit from it and folks who are hurt by it,” he said. “I’m happy for the short-term gain for land owners. On the other side, it’s been disruptive to the land." Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
I finally got "Deadly" Dave Welsh's anti fracking song recorded. After everyone had gone following the monthly Stop CSG Illawarra meeting at Corrimal Leagues Club, Dave and I headed out into the beer garden to record this. www.flickr.com/photos/tony_markham/10510427336/
As seen from a public road on a ridge in Marshall County, this a well under construction. It will use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) to obtain gas from the Marcellus shale formation.
Students and organizers discuss divestment strategies across different movements.
Hundreds of students from around the country have come together to learn about divestment campaigning, so that they can go back home and help their universities divest from dirty energy companies and re-invest in a clean energy future.
Photo by: Shadia Fayne Wood
On May 23, 2011, Marcellus Protest picketed the Shale Play Tubulars Conference that took place at the William Penn Omni Hotel in Pittsburgh.
Ten activists from the Shale Must Fall network, Gastivists Collective, and Climate Camp Scotland beamed a series of unpermitted 40-meter “guerrilla projections” onto the iconic COP26 Climate Summit venue in Glasgow. This action came just days after leaked European Commission documents revealed plans to fast-track approval to 30 new fossil gas infrastructure projects through the “Projects of Common Interest” (PCI) list. The images – which included scandalous infrared images of methane leakage from British and European fossil gas infrastructure – were aimed at drawing attention to the “Methane Gap” between what was promised in the Global Methane Pledge and the construction of new methane infrastructure in Europe.
“The European Commission’s likely decision to support up to 30 new fossil gas infrastructure projects shows the huge gap between political rhetoric at COP26 and policy back in Brussels. Fossil gas production leaks methane every step of the way: from fracking to freezing to shipping to piping, reducing those super-charged emissions is the low-hanging fruit for climate action, but those emissions need to be treated holistically,” said Neal Huddon-Cossar of the Gastivists Collective. “Putting a few bandaids over the leaks isn’t getting to the root of the problem – our governments need to stop importing methane and commit to leaving greenhouse gases where they belong – underground.”
The European Commission's 5th proposed “Projects of Common Interest" include the contentious EastMed deep-sea gas pipeline that would bring fossil gas into Europe from the disputed waters of Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey. The PCI list gives projects fast-tracked priority for funding, permitting, and support at the EU level. Infrared monitoring technologies, such as those projected during the action, have raised the profile and awareness about the role of methane leaks from fracking and fossil gas infrastructure in contributing to global warming. Methane, conventionally sold as “natural gas,” is both a fossil fuel and a greenhouse gas more than 100 times more potent than CO2 while in the atmosphere. Europe is responsible for nearly half of global gas imports, and in Europe, fossil gas is already responsible for more CO2 emissions than coal.
“We are in Glasgow to denounce the genocide and ethnic cleansing being committed by extractivist European corporations that have already taken the life of activists like Samir Flores,” said Miriam Vargas of the Futuros Indigenas network in Mexico. “We denounce that corporations keep extracting land, water, lives, and peace from our territories. We demand an immediate stop to this nonconsensual extraction in our territory.”
The action sought to strengthen the international push to force governments to abandon the construction of new methane infrastructure globally and declare a global fracking ban.
“This is not terribly complicated: methane is a super-charged greenhouse gas that is already underground – all we have to do is leave it there. The fact that Scotland deems it dangerous to frack here and yet continues to allow Ineos to import fracked gas is simply immoral – if it's not okay to frack here, it's not okay to pay someone else to do it,” said Jemma Kettlewell of Climate Camp Scotland. “Europe tries to hide the true emissions of fossil gas imports, but methane doesn’t stop at our borders. Whether we import it to burn, or to make plastics, or to make petrochemicals, imported methane comes with a heavy price tag for the climate, not to mention the impacts of such industries on local communities like Mossmorran. Any European energy strategy that continues to rely on leaky, immoral, expensive, and imported fossil gas simply has no place in our clean energy future.”
Unterzeichner*innen übergeben eine Petition zum Fracking-Gesetzentwurf an Karsten Möring (MdB) in seinem Wahlkreisbüro in Köln-Porz.
(Köln, 24.06.2015)
Foto: Jörn Neumann / Campact
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Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Hundreds of students from around the country have come together to learn about divestment campaigning, so that they can go back home and help their universities divest from dirty energy companies and re-invest in a clean energy future.
Photo by: Shadia Fayne Wood
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Ante la concesión de permisos de investigación a empresas que practican técnicas no convencionales para la extracción de gas mediante fractura hidráulica (fracking) en comunidades autónomas limítrofes y el continuo aumento de solicitudes de investigación por todo el territorio nacional, creemos que por aplicación del principio de precaución, y ante la posibilidad de que se soliciten permisos en nuestra comunidad es necesario evitar el empleo de una técnica con potenciales efectos nefastos sobre el medio ambiente y la salud humana, declarándose San Sebastián de los Reyes como “Municipio Libre de Fracking”, por varios motivos:
La extracción de gas por este medio conlleva un gran consumo de agua asociado. Cada pozo perforado requiere de media unos 9.000 a 29.000 m3 de agua,
La gestión de las aguas residuales generadas resulta compleja, ya que se utiliza una mezcla de agua presión con arena y cientos de componentes químicos (tóxicos y cancerígenos) que ninguna planta depuradora está preparada para eliminar.
Se producen ruidos e impactos visuales se requiere una perforación continua, día y noche, además de miles de viajes de camión.
Hay una evidente alteración del paisaje difícilmente reparable,
Cualquier tipo de instalación extractiva produce un aumento de la contaminación del aire, ya que durante el proceso se producen inevitablemente fugas de gas natural que es 20 veces más potente que el CO2 como gas de efecto invernadero. Además de una posible contaminación de los acuíferos, con importante afección al freático y, consecuentemente, afecta a cauces, manantiales, pozos, etc.
Evidencias contrastadas sugieren que la extracción de gas de pizarra comporta un riesgo significativo de contaminación de las aguas subterráneas y de superficie, que resultan de vital importancia en las actividades agrícolas y ganaderas de las zonas a explotar. Con la posible inutilización de los acuíferos, estas actividades verán mermada su capacidad de riego y abastecimiento, cuando este se haga desde pozos individuales y colectivos. A esto hay que añadir la peligrosidad que, para el consumo humano y animal, tiene la invasión por parte de masas gaseosas de los acuíferos, pudiendo dar lugar a accidentes por la ingestión de agua y gas.
Además de todo ello, se ha constatado que las explotaciones en otras regiones del planeta se han acompañado de riesgos de movimientos sísmicos locales.
En el Pleno de mañana instaremos al Ayuntamiento de San Sebastian de los Reyes a que cumpla el Principio de Precaución, no permita el empleo de una técnica con potenciales efectos nefastos sobre el medio ambiente y la salud humana en su término municipal y declare el municipio de San Sebastián de los Reyes como “Municipio Libre deFracking”.