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The Methane Monster roars

Dahr Jamail, TruthOut, January 14, 2015

During a recent hike in Washington State's Olympic National Park, I marveled at the delicate geometry of frost-covered ferns. White crystalline structures seemed to grow from the green leaves, encasing them in a frozen frame of temporary beauty.

Progressing further up into the mountains, I stopped to lunch and sip hot coffee from a thermos while gazing across a river valley at a snow-covered mountainside, sizing up a frozen waterfall for a possible ice climb in the future. Yet I found myself beginning to wonder how many more winters ice would continue to form there.

Meet the insurgents on the front line of America’s fracking war

Peter Rugh, Vice, January 8, 2015

$Pennsylvania fracking operation$

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made headlines at the end of last year when he announced a ban on hydraulic fracking in his state. That was unquestionably a victory for environmentalists, but in neighboring Pennsylvania, however, fracking is still underway. This summer, I visited the northeastern region of the Keystone State to see what the the front lines of America's shale gas boom looks like.

Cuomo to ban fracking in New York State, citing health risks

Jesse McKinley, New York Times, December 17, 2014

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration announced Wednesday that it would ban hydraulic fracturing in New York State, ending years of uncertainty by concluding that the controversial method of extracting gas from deep underground could contaminate the state’s air and water and pose inestimable public-health risks.

NASA confirms US's 2,500-square-mile methane cloud

Mike G/DeSmogBlog, Ecologist, October 26, 2014

Floating over the US Southwest is a cloud of methane the size of Delaware, writes Mike G - reflecting the release of almost 600,000 tonnes of the powerful greenhouse gas every year. Its origins? Coalbed gas production, fracking and horizontal drilling.

The hot spot happens to be above New Mexico's San Juan Basin, the most productive coalbed methane basin in North America.

When NASA researchers first saw data indicating a massive cloud of methane floating over the American Southwest, they found it so incredible that they dismissed it as an instrument error.

Will fracking bring the soldiers home?

Kathryn Russell, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, October 16, 2014

Advocates of high volume, slick water horizontal hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking, often champion the catchphrase: “Drill a well, bring a soldier home!” This can be found on placards held by pro-frackers at demonstrations and on billboards across the United States. You can buy T-shirts and bumper stickers on eBay that picture a gun-toting soldier with the same slogan. After all, natural gas is supposedly “Clean, Abundant, American!” But fracking will not accomplish what they expect. Only a genuine peace would do that.

Meditations in a climate emergency

Cannery Collective, September 18, 2014

Meditations in a Climate Emergency from Hiram Becker on Vimeo.

ACTIVISTS LOCKDOWN AT KINDER MORGAN’S WESTRIDGE MARINE TERMINAL: 13 TREES = 13 HOURS

Brad Hornick , September 13, 2014

See new photos in slideshow at bottom.

How Hillary Clinton's State Department sold fracking to the world

Mariah Blake, The Guardian, September 12, 2014

One icy morning in February 2012, Hillary Clinton’s plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including prime minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria’s bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking.

A green bridge to hell

Naomi Oreskes, Z Magazine, August 31, 2014

Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that led to it. Yet this is precisely what we are now trying to do with climate change policy.

The Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, many environmental groups, and the oil and gas industry all tell us that the way to solve the problem created by fossil fuels is with more fossils fuels. We can do this, they claim, by using more natural gas, which is touted as a “clean” fuel— even a “green” fuel.

What the anti-fracking movement brings to the climate movement

Sandra Steingraber, EcoWatch, August 24, 2014

These are my prepared remarks for a speech I gave at the Boston stop of the People’s Climate March tour, “Building a Movement of Movements: Towards thePeople’s Climate March in NYC.”

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