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May 19, 5 pm, An evening with "No Fracking Way" singer Marc Black, Asheville. Register here!
May 19, 11:30 AM, March and Rally at the legislature, Raleigh.
May 20, 7 p.m., GASLAND Screening & Discussion, The Depot in Hillsborough Map/directions!
May 21, 7PM, Hydraulic Fracturing & Gas Leasing Meeting. Pittsboro, NC Details!
May 22, 6-8PM, Gasland Screening. Raleigh. Sign Up Here
May 23, 1:30 PM, Hydrofracking: Public Health Issues and Impacts. Chapel Hill. Find Out More!
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 Back by popular demand, Pennsylvania dairy farmers Carol French and Carolyn Knapp will speak about the impacts of shale gas drilling at a series of events next week in Wake, Moore and Durham counties. At Carol and Carolyn’s Sept. 10 presentation at our Annual Meeting, they impressed a lot of folks with their honesty and message of caution to NC based on their experiences in Bradford County, PA.
Click for details on when you can hear Carol and Carolyn speak in NC next week, or visit our events calendar! More…
Do you: have concerns or ideas for the upcoming NC study of shale gas? Want to participate in the public decision making process? Have personal experience, expertise or resources about fracking? Then please consider attending the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)’s public meeting on Monday, Oct. 10 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Sanford at the McSwain Extension Education & Agriculture Center (2420 Tramway Rd.) You can take a look at the draft study plan, and . . . → Read More: Shale Gas Meeting in Sanford – Monday October 10
Summit on the Impacts of Fracking at the 27th Annual Meeting of Clean Water for NC. September 10, 2011. Dr.Simona Perry, now at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presents “Fractured Communities, Fractured Lives”: Dealing with the social, community and environmental impacts of surging gas extraction.
View presentation . . . → Read More: Dr. Simona Perry on Social and Community Impacts of Surging Gas Extraction
Summit on Impacts of Fracking at the 27th Annual Meeting of Clean Water for NC. September 10, 2011. Calvin Tillman, former mayor of Dish, TX presents on the effects of natural gas development on small communities. Introduction by Nathanette Mayo, Clean Water for NC Board of Directors.
Calvin is the co-founder of Shaletest.org, a nonprofit organization which provides testing and data to low-income families and neighborhoods impacted by natural gas exploration and development. The organization can be . . . → Read More: Calvin Tillman on Small Communities and Natural Gas Development
1:30 to 5:30 PM, September 10, 2011 Pittsboro NC
Summit on Impacts of Fracking at the 27th Annual Meeting of Clean Water for NC
A packed auditorium of folks at the Pittsboro Campus of Central Carolina Community College was enlightened, inspired and motivated to action by the scientific studies, personal experiences of impacted folks from TX and PA, and legal and leasing expertise shared by great speakers at the Sept. 10 Summit on the impacts of . . . → Read More: Keeping NC’s Water, Air and Communities Safe from Hydraulic Fracturing for Gas
Thanks to everyone who attended Saturday’s Summit. The amount of interest was wonderful, and we’re grateful to our speakers for sharing their expertise and stories. Please check back soon for photos, summaries and video footage of the event, as well as yard sign kits and other ways you can join the movement to keep fracking from impacting our state as it has Pennsylvania, Texas and others!
Not already on our weekly fracking e-mail alert list? Sign up . . . → Read More: Summit on Fracking Impacts a Success
Today, Clean Water for North Carolina releases our new report, “Privatizing NC’s Water, Undermining Justice.” This 50-page report describes the growing trend of water privatization in North Carolina and the impacts private water and sewer companies are having on water affordability, customer service, and water quality (read the 2-page executive summary).
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Currently, NC regulations prohibit 1) horizontal drilling, 2) high pressure injections for fracturing, 3) injection of toxic waste. Very low permitting and bonding ($5,000) is required, far from adequate to support a regulatory program or protect NC resources or neighboring properties.
Some key issues for NC communities (air quality, wastewater trucking to sewage plants, surface impacts) will not be addressed in EPA’s narrowed study. Also, the study focuses on shale gas; will not consider coal bed methane . . . → Read More: Take Action on Fracking in NC
GASLAND did not receive the Oscar for Best Documentary despite being honored with a nomination. However, the gas & oil industry’s attack and articles in several major newspapers prior to Sunday night’s show raised awareness of fracking-related drinking water contamination, air pollution, and high levels of radioactivity and challenged current energy strategies pointing to increased use of natural gas.
An article from Sunday’s New York Times on how lax regulations in wastewater disposal could affect our drinking . . . → Read More: Industry attacks GASLAND
The following dates and times have been selected for the next showings of GASLAND. Thank you for your patience through the winter weather!
ANSON CO.: Thursday, January 27, at the Hampton B. Allen Library in Wadesboro (7 p.m.)
ROCKINGHAM CO.: Wednesday, February 2, at the Mayodan Public Library (6 p.m.)
DAVIE CO.: Thursday, February 3, at the Mocksville Public Library (6 p.m.)
Check back for more . . . → Read More: Snow dates for GASLAND showings
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