PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

Total ban on toxic gas drilling necessary
by Henry Fox Sunday, Jul. 05, 2009 at 12:40 PM

I found this on the Cleveland Indymedia site and edited it using wording from environmntal activists groups in Alabama and Wyoming a bit (IT's VERY RELEVANT TO US IN PENNSYLVANIA). We got groups here who are also ready to sacrifice rural Pa. to protect their homes. Fkt up.

It's about a New York City pol who is trying to cut deals with a few NIMBY homeowners and the gas industry. Seems they're even deploying a crappy egomaniacal film-maker, Josh Fox (no relation), who is defending sell-outs like this guy (Councilmember James Gennaro).

These people have it straight! Taking on fake "environmental" organizations and their sleazy political allies who compromise with the extremism of the gas industry.

I hope OGAP, the NRDC, and Senator Casey get real about supporting gas drilling that is devastating rural america and stealing people's land through eminent domain!

The flyer at the end of this thread is particularly cool.

But the discussion is enlightening too!

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/06/105774.html#unitedStates

We need a TOTAL BAN ON Gas Drilling because of the climate (duh!), because the environmental destruction is a hidden subsidy that prevents renewables from competing, and because of the local, regional, and national impacts of horizontal hydrofracking on air, water, soil.

Tell Senator Casey to stop taking half-measures which leave rural America sacrificed to unregulated gas drilling.

The Frac bill must repeal ALL exemptions from the 2005 'Halliburton' Energy Act. Right now is just repeals enough to protect mostly urban areas while letting gas drillers rape rural areas.

Sen. Casey:
Harrisburg

22 S. Third Street, Suite 6A
Harrisburg, PA 17101
Phone: (717) 231-7540
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Fax: (717) 231-7542
Philadelphia

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Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: (215) 405-9660
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Pittsburgh

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Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: (412) 803-7370
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Northeastern PA

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Scranton, PA 18503
Phone: (570) 941-0930
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Erie

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Erie, PA 16501
Phone: (814) 874-5080
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Central PA

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Bellefonte, PA 16823
Phone: (814) 357-0314
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Lehigh Valley

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Allentown, PA 18101
Phone: (610) 782-9470
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