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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…
In 1991, the People of Color National Leadership Summit met in Washington, DC and adopted 17 challenging “Principles of Environmental Justice.” Every 3 years, CWFNC’s Board reviews and affirms our commitment to these principles as goals for our own work. The movement recognizes the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on low-income communities and communities of color, and strives toward justice for all people in the environments where they live, work, and play. See all 17 Principles of Environmental Justice.
Carol French and Carolyn Knapp, dairy farmers and co-founders of Pennsylvania Landowner Group for Awareness and Solutions (PLGAS)from Bradford County present “The ‘Good’, the Bad and the Ugly: Effects of the Gas Extraction Boom on PA’s Most Impacted County” at CWFNC’s summit on the impacts of fracking.
View presentation slides
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 submit written comments by Oct. 18, in addition to any oral comments at the Oct. 10 meeting. Send written comments to Shale_gas_comments@ncdenr.gov; or through the mail to NCDENR, attn: Trina Ozer, 1601 MSC, Raleigh, NC 27699.
See some general concerns about the study that CWFNC has identified that may help you as you prepare comments!
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 slides (pdf)
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 contacted at dalsessa@shaletest.org.
View presentation slides (pdf)
A Warning To North Carolina (regarding the realities of fracking & offshore drilling). from Tinkham Town on Vimeo.
Preview new video footage, including footage from our September 10 Summit. Please share this widely, and don’t forget to call your legislators asking them to uphold the Governor’s Veto of Senate Bill 709!
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 fracking for gas. We’ve received lots of ideas, events and other plans for action from many of those who attended the Summit—please continue to send them! If you did not attend, please sign up for our list of emailed “fracking updates” (approximately weekly), let us know if you’d like to volunteer to help set up an event in your area, follow the links to the speaker presentations below, or explore other fracking resources.
“Woes of Fracking Fill Air At Summit”, Raleigh News & Observer, Sept. 11, 2011
Speaker presentations
Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing on Water Resources: Assessing the Broader Environmental Footprint of Shale Gas Drilling Hydraulic Fracturing (pdf) – Dr. Avner Vengosh, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
The ‘Good’, the Bad and the Ugly: Effects of the Gas Extraction Boom on PA’s Most Impacted County (pdf) – Carol French & Carolyn Knapp, dairy farmers from Bradford Co., PA, Co-founders of PA Landowners’ Group for Awareness and Solutions Bradford Co.
 Predatory Contracts & Landowner Rights: Mineral Rights Leasing in NC (pdf) – Jordan Treakle, Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)
Fractured Communities, Fractured Lives: Dealing with the Social, Community and Environmental Impacts of Surging Gas Extraction (pdf) – Dr. Simona Perry, Research Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
The Effects of Natural Gas Development on Small Communities: Air pollution, Pipelines, Compressor Stations and the Need for Landowners and Communities to Test their Water and Air (pdf) – Calvin Tillman, former mayor of Dish, TX, Founder, Shaletest.org
NC Legal and Regulatory Control of Natural Gas Exploration (pdf) – Ryke Longest, Director, Duke University Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, & Jennifer Hayes, Duke University Law School
Photo credits: M. Tyler and K. Hicks
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!
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Speakers at the event included:
 Calvin Tillman, former mayor of Dish, TX and founder of Shaletest.org: “The Effects of Natural Gas Development on Small Communities”: Air pollution, pipelines, compressor stations and the need for landowners and communities to test their water and air.
Dr. Avner Vengosh, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, co-author of “Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accompanying Gas-well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing”: “Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing on Water Resources”: Assessing the environmental footprint of hydraulic fracturing for gas.
Jordan Treakle, Rural Advancement Foundation International: “Predatory Contracts & Landowner Rights: Mineral Rights Leasing in NC”
 
Carol French and Carolyn Knapp, dairy farmers from Bradford Co., PA: “The ‘Good’, the Bad and the Ugly”: Effects of gas extraction boom on PA’s most impacted county.
 Dr. Simona Perry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: “Fractured Communities, Fractured Lives”: Dealing with the social, community and environmental impacts of surging gas extraction.
 Ryke Longest, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Clinic: “North Carolina Legal and Regulatory Control of Natural Gas Exploration”
There are some great upcoming events and film showings in Pittsboro and Raleigh. See our Fracking Events page for more information!
“Mineral Rights Leases – What Landowners Should Know about Natural Gas Leasing”
Tuesday, July 19, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Chatham County Agricultural Center, 45 South St Pittsboro, NC 27312 (map)
(hosted by the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA) and the Chatham County Cooperative Extension Service)
Contact: jordan@rafiusa.org
GASLAND
Tuesday, July 19, 7pm – 9pm
The Barn at Ferrington Village, 2000 Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro, NC 27312 (map)
(hosted by Deep River Clean Water Society)
Contact: deeprivercleanwater@gmail.com
GASLAND
Thursday, July 21, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, Clara Barton Room 3313 Wade Ave Raleigh, NC (map)
(hosted by the Capital Group Sierra Club)
Contact: john@jashaw.com
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