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| − | Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing. It's good news in that it has dropped the cost natural gas, so it may reduce the amount of coal we burn, which helps with global warming. However, the drilling companies will not reveal what chemicals they are using, some are known or suspected carcinogens (this secrecy goes back to the energy bill that came out of Dick Cheney's secret energy task force). Even more worrisome in some respects is the intimidation and surveillance by [http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/874968ED-A020-B0E4-4C27-A3A0558D5C9A#-80 police and private contractors] of [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_print.html activists] and [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/house-republicans-order-j_n_1246971.html?view=print&comm_ref=false reporters] who ask questions.
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| − | == News/Reports ==
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| − | [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/tag/fracking/ PBS Need to Know]
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| − | [http://steingraber.com/bio/ Sandra Steingraber] is internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue.[http://www.alternet.org/print/fracking/pledge-resist-fracking-writer-biologist-sandra-steingraber-issues-call-action-and-warning Pledge to Resist Fracking].
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| − | == Video ==
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| − | [http://video.pbs.org/video/2004467940/ PBS NewsHour] on health effects 6/12.
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| − | [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/08/fracking-is-it-safe.html See also]
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| − | Groundbreaking filmmaker Josh Fox takes a closer look at natural gas drilling and fracking and their effects on communities in his award-winning documentary [http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/gasland/index.html Gasland] a documentary about drilling for natural gas. [http://gaslandthemovie.com/ official site]. After Fox was offered $100,000 to lease his land to a drilling company, he set off on a cross-country journey to investigate the environmental risks of fracking. During his 24-state trek, he uncovers alarming facts about the natural gas industry, health problems as a result from this contamination and (not surprisingly) loopholes in federal environmental regulation. HBO [http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2c=JJ%2FlqPYlhwTt1Jiyo%2FvyIu%2Bv81mcs1Wp trailer]
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| − | [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11611 New short film on fracking] by Gasland director. 7.12 He was [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/house-republicans-order-j_n_1246971.html?view=print&comm_ref=false arrested by capitol police] for filming a public meeting. Actor [http://www.alternet.org/print/newsandviews/article/362465/actor_mark_ruffalo_lands_on_terror_list_for_screening_film_against_fracking Mark Ruffalo has been supporting the issue], Pete Seeger too. | |
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| − | [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/12/60minutes/main7048737.shtml 60 Minutes segment on Fracking], injecting chemicals under high pressure to extract natural gas. 11/10.
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| − | [http://www.ted.com/talks/t_boone_pickens_let_s_transform_energy_with_natural_gas.html T Boone Pickens TEDtalk] on energy policy 3/12.
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| − | Vanity Fair [http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/06/fracking-in-pennsylvania-201006 article and video] on water affected.
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| − | [http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/07/methane-impact-gulf-oil-spill Natural gas' (mostly methane) role in Gulf oil spill]. from [http://motherjones.com/ Mojo]
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| − | [http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=10-P13-00030#feature5 Drilling Down on Fracking] loe.org 7/10
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| − | == Music ==
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| − | [http://www.motherjones.com/print/177481 A great fracking video rap]: What the frack is going on? My water's on fire tonight
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