Why Colorado Should Embrace Fracking
Published June 13, 2013
By the Libertarian Party of Colorado
People like to solve problems, and in a market where ideas are free to be tested, the most beautiful process unfolds. As soon as people of any industry recognize the implications of solving one problem or another, professionals from all over will flock to ground zero and put their heads together.… Read more ...
From Green Party Watch, June 16, 2013:
Will you stand up and end the threat of fracking in NY State, once and for all? Not a moratorium, or another delay, but a BAN. Right now.
RSVP to rally with the Greens in Albany toDemand a Ban from Cuomo on June 17th!… Read more ...
The following comes from an April 23rd article on PhillyBurbs.com:
Rush-hour traffic zipped by them. The chilly wind blew through them. But that did not prevent some 30 determined environmentalists and conservationists from bringing their battle against “fracking,” a controversial drilling process using pressurized fluids to bring natural gas to the surface, to the streets of downtown Norristown in time for Monday’s Earth Day.… Read more ...
Green Party leaders blasted Gov. Quinn’s claim, in his annual budget address, that hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — “is coming to Illinois,” as if it were inevitable, disrespecting the efforts of thousands of activists and concerned citizens struggling to prevent fracking operations here.
Repost from onthewilderside, based on a post at GPNYS/Green Party of New York State:
“We need a Green New Deal, financed through progressive taxes.… Read more ...
The Green Party of Philadelphia has three events in the next two weeks. First, they will be demonstrating against fracking on Earth Day. Next, they will be holding a monthly meeting. Finally, on May Day they will be having a community celebration. More details below.
Earth Day demonstration at the local Department of Environmental Protection:
… Read more ...Citizens opposed to gas drilling will hold an Earth Day Demonstration Against Fracking, at 4:00 p.m.
From Philly Now:
… Read more ...Inappropriate analogies aside, the Green Party of Philadelphia has put out a statement on the moratorium (they’re for it), of which we’re pulling some parts:
Philadelphia’s Green Party leaders voted to endorse the proposed City Council Resolution, Belinda Davis, acting GPOP treasurer, who attended Council’s hearing in September, hailed the moratorium on fracking.
From a Green Party of New York State press release, as posted by Ian Wilder at onthewilderside.com:
A press release from the Green Party of Pennsylvania, which supports banning hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) for natural gas and organized statewide protests against the practice on Earth Day:
Last week, Pittsburgh City Council voted to ban hydrofracturing, or
“fracking” within city limits. Fracking is a controversial method of
natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale formation that uses large
volumes of water and severely pollutes it in the process. … Read more ...
From the Green Party of Pennsylvania:
GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
http://www.gpofpa.org
Green Party offers viable alternatives in tomorrow’s election
As the exchange of missives between the two large corporate-dominated
parties intensifies while the campaign season for the November 2010 general
election winds down, the Green Party of Pennsylvania continues to offer a
viable alternative that puts people before profits, and forwards a prospect
of real change instead of the tiresome rhetoric and empty promises of the
status quo.… Read more ...
GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
http://www.gpofpa.org
Green Party supports residents of Dimock
Since DEP Secretary John Hanger announced his decision to construct a
pipeline from Lake Montrose to Dimock to provide safe drinking water to the
residents who are unable to use their wells, there has been a backlash.
Cabot has denied all responsibility. … Read more ...
Press release:
After a blowback spewed gas and toxic water in Clearfield, PA, plus serious incidents including deaths of oil and gas employees in West Virginia and Texas, nearly two months of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and years of mountain top removal, the Green Party of Pennsylvania says “enough already.”
Still in its infancy, drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale has resulted in the poisoning of private drinking water in Dimock, the destruction of Dunkard Creek, pollution of the Monongahela River and transformation of billions of gallons of Pennsylvania’s fresh water resources into untreatable toxic waste.… Read more ...