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In reply to the discussion: National Anti-Fracking Group Launched... [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)12. DU has had many threads on fracking. The process is not new, but is a major polluter, IMO.
DU's H2O Man is an activist in the northeast and made several threads on his work to stop fracking. Also DUer MadameSilverspurs made threads on it. These are respected members here.
Organizations who are a part of the group, not an inconsequential list of those against fracking. I've emboldened the ones I have heard about. I think we should consider what they are saying here:
350.org
350 Winston Salem
Advocates for Morris
Athens County Fracking Action Network
Back to Democracy
Baldwin Hills Oil Watch
Berks Gas Truth
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Boulder County Citizens for Community
Breast Cancer Action
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Center for Biological Diversity
Citizens Against Drilling on Public Lands
Citizens Environmental Coalition
Citizens for Clean Water
City of Binghamton Against Fracking
Colchester Programming Partners
Common Ground Green Building Center
Communities United for Rights and Environment
Community Research
Concerned Citizens of Danby
Concerned Citizens of Ulysses
Cook Inlet Keeper
Coos Waterkeeper
CREDO Action
Cuyahoga County Concerned Citizens
CWA Local 1081
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Democracy for America
Dont Frack Michigan
East Boulder County United
Environmental Priorities Network
Erie Rising
Family Farm Defenders
Food & Water Watch
Frack Action
Frack Files
Frack Free Culver City
Frack Free Genesee
Frack Free Ohio
Frack Free Stark County
Friends of Butternuts
Genesis Farms
Gila Resources Information Project
Global Exchange
Green Environmental Coalition
Green Party of NJ
Green Retirement Plans
Greenpeace USA
Groton Resource Awareness Coalition
Haw River Assembly
Hydroquest
Illinois Peoples Action
Interfaith Sacred Earth Coalition
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Lakewood Fractivist
Las Vegas NM Peace & Justice Center
Lehigh Valley Gas Truth
Maryland PIRG
Mecklenburg Audubon Society
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Montgomery County Young Dems
The Mothers Project
National Nurses United
Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation
New Jersey Highlands Coalition
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
New Yorkers Against Fracking
No Fracking in Stokes
Northwest Ohio Alliance to Stop Fracking
NYC Friends of Clearwater
Occupy Well Street
Occupy Winston Salem
Oregon Citizens Against the Pipeline
The Other 98%
Otsego 2000
Our Longmont
Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air
Peters Township Marcellus Shale Awareness Group
Rainforest Action Network
Residents Against Fracking Tioga
The River Project
Rochester Defense Against Fracking
Rogue Riverkeeper
Russian Riverkeeper
Sane Energy
Sea Savers
Shaleshock Action Alliance
Silver Valley Waterkeeper
Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water
Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment
Southwest Environmental Center
Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development
Sustainable Otsego
Sustainable Tompkins
SW Ohio No Frack Forum
Tennessee Riverkeeper
Thomas Merton Center
Three Parks Independent Democrats
Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey
United for Action
Vermont Natural Resources Council
Vestal Residents for Safe Energy
Vermont PIRG
Water Equality
Waterspirit
Western Environmental Law Center
What the Frack?!
Williams County Alliance
WNY Drilling Defense
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section.
http://www.americansagainstfracking.org/members/
Organizations who are a part of the group, not an inconsequential list of those against fracking. I've emboldened the ones I have heard about. I think we should consider what they are saying here:
350.org
350 Winston Salem
Advocates for Morris
Athens County Fracking Action Network
Back to Democracy
Baldwin Hills Oil Watch
Berks Gas Truth
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Boulder County Citizens for Community
Breast Cancer Action
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Center for Biological Diversity
Citizens Against Drilling on Public Lands
Citizens Environmental Coalition
Citizens for Clean Water
City of Binghamton Against Fracking
Colchester Programming Partners
Common Ground Green Building Center
Communities United for Rights and Environment
Community Research
Concerned Citizens of Danby
Concerned Citizens of Ulysses
Cook Inlet Keeper
Coos Waterkeeper
CREDO Action
Cuyahoga County Concerned Citizens
CWA Local 1081
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Democracy for America
Dont Frack Michigan
East Boulder County United
Environmental Priorities Network
Erie Rising
Family Farm Defenders
Food & Water Watch
Frack Action
Frack Files
Frack Free Culver City
Frack Free Genesee
Frack Free Ohio
Frack Free Stark County
Friends of Butternuts
Genesis Farms
Gila Resources Information Project
Global Exchange
Green Environmental Coalition
Green Party of NJ
Green Retirement Plans
Greenpeace USA
Groton Resource Awareness Coalition
Haw River Assembly
Hydroquest
Illinois Peoples Action
Interfaith Sacred Earth Coalition
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Lakewood Fractivist
Las Vegas NM Peace & Justice Center
Lehigh Valley Gas Truth
Maryland PIRG
Mecklenburg Audubon Society
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
Montgomery County Young Dems
The Mothers Project
National Nurses United
Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation
New Jersey Highlands Coalition
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
New Yorkers Against Fracking
No Fracking in Stokes
Northwest Ohio Alliance to Stop Fracking
NYC Friends of Clearwater
Occupy Well Street
Occupy Winston Salem
Oregon Citizens Against the Pipeline
The Other 98%
Otsego 2000
Our Longmont
Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air
Peters Township Marcellus Shale Awareness Group
Rainforest Action Network
Residents Against Fracking Tioga
The River Project
Rochester Defense Against Fracking
Rogue Riverkeeper
Russian Riverkeeper
Sane Energy
Sea Savers
Shaleshock Action Alliance
Silver Valley Waterkeeper
Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water
Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment
Southwest Environmental Center
Sullivan Area Citizens for Responsible Energy Development
Sustainable Otsego
Sustainable Tompkins
SW Ohio No Frack Forum
Tennessee Riverkeeper
Thomas Merton Center
Three Parks Independent Democrats
Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey
United for Action
Vermont Natural Resources Council
Vestal Residents for Safe Energy
Vermont PIRG
Water Equality
Waterspirit
Western Environmental Law Center
What the Frack?!
Williams County Alliance
WNY Drilling Defense
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section.
http://www.americansagainstfracking.org/members/
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There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that fracking fluids have EVER contaminated drinking water.
Indydem
Dec 2012
#24
"natural chemicals" that the industry won't reveal? Apparently, you work for the industry
wordpix
Dec 2012
#50
there's plenty of peer reviewed science on this and safe process? You gotta be kidding
wordpix
Dec 2012
#49
A flaming tap and a glass full of toxic water, and you might rethink that comment.
NEOBuckeye
Dec 2012
#6
There are perfectly normal and natural methane pockets that end up in aquifers.
Indydem
Dec 2012
#23
this guy from the film Gasland did not have his water ignite until fracking came to his 'hood
wordpix
Dec 2012
#47
You bet. From GD - "Bayou Frack-Out: The Massive Oil and Gas Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of"...
Indi Guy
Dec 2012
#36
DU has had many threads on fracking. The process is not new, but is a major polluter, IMO.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#12
Sound like good Democrats to me. When I was in the Young Democrats in college, we helped to organize
freshwest
Dec 2012
#15
I don't usually bother with people who are dismissive, call names and give no facts.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#56
I doubt it has, or will prove them wrong. Did you note the Calvin & Hobbes pic? That's what this is.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#42
He doesn't need to convince you. Economics has convinced him. I'm not apologizing, just explaining
freshwest
Dec 2012
#48
Looks good, I hope a LOT of people see this. And RFK, Jr. has my utmost respect on all issues.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#57
Many major reputations and credibility at stake there, not hit and run like some. nt
patrice
Dec 2012
#54
Let me suggest to you that the industry does not act with such caution, so why must people?
NEOBuckeye
Dec 2012
#19
Unfortunately the term "conservation" is foreign to today's "conservative" lexicon...
Indi Guy
Dec 2012
#71
Duke study finds “systematic evidence for methane contamination of drinking water associated with sh
limpyhobbler
Dec 2012
#65