Brilliant Anti-fraking Demo

[kpete]

Published on Mar 25, 2015

Nebraska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission hearing on an out-of-state company's application to export its toxic fracking wastewater into Nebraska, moving 80 truckloads carrying 10,000 barrels per day of pollution destined to be dumped into a disposal well in Sioux County — transferring all the risk onto Nebraska farmers and ranchers.


Watch This Guy's Brilliant Anti-fraking Demo

by Spocko

This is the most straight-forward and powerful video I've seen in awhile.


It's from a hearing on shipping fracking wastewater to a well in Sioux County Nebraska.

The lack of slickness helps. The crappy camerawork adds to the authenticity. I'd like my friends at various non-profits and activists to watch this to see what was done right.
The speaker knew his audience. Not only the commissioners, but the people in the room and in the community. He was not an outsider. He looked like them, dressed like them and talked like them.
He addressed the concerns of both sides before his demo
He made a powerful visual case with common items people knew
He made an emotional appeal and had an intellectual back up. This is for the people who say they only decide based on "facts," to rationalize their emotional decision.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/watch-this-guys-brilliant-anti-fraking.html

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. Do you remember a similar scene in a film

about Erin Brokovich, in which she provides visiting lawyers from the big chemical corporation polluting the local water supply, with glasses of water from the water butt or some such, in the yard, but only tells them after they've quaffed deeply from their glasses! What expressions on their faces!

[Delphinus]

2. Good for him!

That was great!