YOU CAN SHINE

This is so well done.

Maybe the best commercial I've ever seen.

I know it's way off track but it's just too good.

Maybe that's why it's not made for the US.

Nice to have an un-fracked moment

in the midst of all the idiocy.

ALL FRACKED UP

New film by Jeff & Jodi Andrysick

The difference between Josh Fox's masterpiece

GASLAND and ALL FRACKED UP is that

GASLAND is like cappuccino and 

ALL FRACKED UP is like camp coffee:

local, gritty, unfiltered and designed to wake you up! 

They’ve been labeled “farmers turned filmmakers,” but it’s what Jeff and Jodi Andrysick felt they had to do with their $10,000.

So far they’re recouped $3,000 of their money from various showings across New York state. With the debut in Bloomsburg — coincidentally, they said, at the same time as the annual Bloomsburg Fair —

they’re hoping not only to gain more funding but to

wake up Pennsylvanians.  

 “Pennsylvania is really like a newborn pup,” Jeff Andrysick said. “In time, the state will  shut ‘em down, because they’ll conclude this isn’t what they (gas companies) say it is.” He and Jodi are betting their $10,000 on it, “and I don’t like to lose.”

Trailer

Article HERE

Website HERE

PA Showings on Saturday, October 2nd

10:30 am - Montrose Theater in Montrose

4:30 pm - BTE Theater in Bloomsburg

THIS IS OUTSTANDING

PLEASE SUPPORT JODI & JEFF

WATER, WATER...ANYWHERE?

70% of the planet is covered by water

Only 0.008% of it is available

for human consumption

Each day, contaminated drinking water

kills 14,000 people

WORLDWIDE

that's

5,110,000 people per year

Each American uses an average of

100 gallons of water every day.

that's

36,500 gallons per year

Being green isn't new

Fracking one deep shale gas well

requires an average of

4,500,000 gallons of water.

THIS IS BEYOND MADNESS

WAKE UP

SUNDAY MORNING RELEASE

Don’t think you can’t see me

Don’t argue amongst yourselves

Because of the loss of me

I’m sitting amongst yourselves

Don’t think you can’t see me

Don’t argue amongst yourselves

Because of the loss of me

I haven’t gone anywhere

But out of my body

Reach out and you’ll touch me

Make effort to speak to me

Call out and you’ll hear me

Be happy for me

RELEASE

Afro Celt Sound System

SACRED WATER

Water is the Lifeblood of the Earth

"It does not require many words to speak the Truth."

Chief Joseph Nez Perce

"Half an action is no action at all...

Regulations and fines will not protect the environment.

There is no way to undo the harm hydro-fracking will cause."

Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Onongada Nation

The UnFractured Future

Let your voice

be a drop

in this

River of Opposition

BAN HYDRO-FRACKING

By The Friends of Turtle Island

SO FRACKING WRONG

WRONG...WRONG...WRONG

I was born with the wrong sign

In the wrong house

With the wrong ascendancy

I took the wrong road

That led to the wrong tendencies

I was in the wrong place at the wrong time

For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme

On the wrong day of the wrong week

I used the wrong method with the wrong technique

WRONG

 

There's something wrong with me chemically

Something wrong with me inherently

The wrong mix in the wrong genes

I reached the wrong ends by the wrong means

It was the wrong plan

In the wrong hands

The wrong theory for the wrong man

The wrong eyes on the wrong prize

The wrong questions with the wrong replies

WRONG

I was marching to the wrong drum

With the wrong scum\

Pissing out the wrong energy

Using all the wrong lines

And the wrong signs

With the wrong intensity

I was on the wrong page of the wrong book

With the wrong rendition of the wrong look

With the wrong moon, every wrong night

With the wrong tune playing till it sounded right yeah

WRONG - too long

WRONG - too long

Depeche Mode

WAKE UP OUT THERE

SANDRA STEINGRABER, PhD

"The Whole Fracking Enchilada"

"Violating the bedrock, the atmosphere,

and everything in between"

Orion Magazine

"I HAVE COME to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too."

"Fracking is linked to every part of the environmental crisis—from radiation exposure to habitat loss—and contravenes every principle of environmental thinking."

 "It’s the tornado on the horizon that is poised to wreck ongoing efforts to create green economies, local agriculture, investments in renewable energy, and the ability to ride your bike along country roads."

"Natural gas is the vaporous form of petroleum. It’s the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of fossil fuels: when burned, natural gas generates only half the greenhouse gases of coal, but when it escapes into the atmosphere as unburned methane, it’s one of the most powerful greenhouse gases of them all—twenty times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat and with the stamina to persist nine to fifteen years."

"We are literally shattering the bedrock of our nation and pumping it full of carcinogens in order to bring methane out of the earth."

"By 2012, 100 billion gallons per year of fresh water will be turned into toxic fracking fluid. The technology to transform it back to drinkable water does not exist."

"I’ve heard a woman who lives by a fracking operation in Pennsylvania—whose pond bubbles with methane and whose kids have nosebleeds at night—ask how she could keep her children safe. She was asking me."

"And I had no answer."

"There is no away."

Full Article HERE 

Wiki  HERE

Previous Posts HERE & HERE

SPEECH at EPA HEARING

TIME

IS RUNNING

OUT

STORIES FROM SHALE HELL

Fantastic post by txsharon on Daily KOS

"Where's your "Drill, Baby, drill" now?"

"Is this the American Dream gone wrong,

or what?"

""Our well water is contaminated. We have manganese, iron & lead well above EPA's safe drinking standards. We have acrylonitrile, toluene, ethyl benzene, tetrachlorethene and syrene in our water. There is probably more, but who knows what to test for??? It turns brown and black. It smells like rotten eggs. We have to open the windows to flush the toilets.
Then that leads us to the next evil...

'We started having air testing done. The initial tests showed

excessively high levels of VOC's and did detect H2S.

'So we open the windows to flush, then hurry up and shut them

before the VOC's get in. Lesser of two evil's???'"

Full Post HERE

The whole story of gas drilling is already written on the Barnett

Please visit Sharon's site often

Bluedaze HERE

THANK YOU SHARON

THE STATE WE'RE IN

Puke Time

James Kunstler's latest expression of outrage and frustration over our lives and times:

"Our county fair put me in mind of that American classic, Moby Dick, this year. So many white whales among the try-pots bubbling with rendered blubber, where crews of savages from all corners of the world toiled to bring forth batter-dipped Mars bars, Pop Tarts, corn dogs, funnel cakes, and other rarities of the deep fryer... and then the whales ventured a little further down the midway where they mounted the engines of swirling cosmic death, and were flung about in the centrifugal pods of fate on the ingenious mechanical arms of innovation, until their sickened souls gave forth with a mighty spewage of corn byproducts that rained down upon the moiling innocents below....

"Like most metaphors, this one limps a bit, as did Captain Ahab himself, with his whale-bone peg-leg. But when everyday life gets detached from reality, metaphor is all you've got left. And in this ridiculous, sickening culture, with its toxic stream of electronic simulacrum politics sucking all the oxygen out of the collective brain-space, the mind is left wandering numbly across a kind of wilderness where twisted sign-posts point to mutant evangelists, freakish ideologies, false prophets, deadly miracle cures, phantoms on horseback, angels with bat-wings, and the ghost of Spotted Elk lying dead in the snow with his stiffened arm beckoning the way to extinction like Melville's Ahab corded to the hump of his sounding white whale. Oh, America, pull your head out of your electronic ass while you still can! And look out below!

 "What continues to amaze me is that there is no corresponding rise of an intelligent opposition. How did it come to be in our time that Harvard-Yale-Princeton-Stanford and all the other incubators of supposed statesmanship have produced no figures of conviction and good intentions to demonstrate what it means to be resolute amid this grand failure of will?  How have we managed to turn out two generations of lackeys, toadies, stooges, and flunkies from these citadels of power? If there are some competent, resolute adults waiting backstage -- undistracted by phantoms related to Darwin's theories or birth control or religious doctrine of one kind or another -- they better enter the scene soon, or the fate of this country will be left in the hands of malicious, dogmatic, nincompoops beating their drums for Jesus, war, and the death of the planet.

"This is the moment when the illusions fall away. This is the season when the comprehensive contraction becomes unmistakable and we have to make provision for its mandates: to get smaller, leaner, more local, more earnest, more truthful, and more willing to endure the discomforts of changed circumstances. Mr. Obama didn't have to promise "change." Change was happening all around us in the disintegration of our something-for-nothing dream of entitled exceptionalism. Tragically, the Tea Partiers want to claw back that absurd dream. They're obviously too dumb to know the difference between dreams and realities.

"But where are the men and women who do know the difference? And why are they too timid to step up and say something? Can it be that precious a thing to hang on to some mere appointed position just because the pay is good and you get to circulate in places where free canapés are passed around? What kind of chickenshit society have we become?

"Well, brace yourself for a wild season. The Pequod is going down and the crazed harpooners are looking to slaughter everyone on board. Captain Ahab is down below the quarterdeck brooding on the mysteries of the cosmos and don't count on him coming up from there to set things straight. Round and round we go as Moby Dick circles the ship, making a vortex with his gigantic flukes. I'm already in the water, waiting for Queequeg's coffin to bubble up out of the cold blue sea."

 

Clusterfuck Nation

Full Post HERE

 

Evidently Chickentown

John Cooper Clarke

BETTER GET UP

ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING

THE HOUR IS GETTING LATE

RENDELL APPALLED BY PA HOMELAND SECURITY UN-INTELLIGENCE BULLETINS

"Protesting is a God-given American right,

a right that is in our Constitution,

a right that is fundamental to all we believe in as Americans."

Nice Words

Here's the link to his interview on CNN 360 Friday night:

(youtube won't let me embed this)

HERE

At the end he says:

"It shouldn't have been done

and it's not going to be done anymore."

More Nice Words

BUT...

WHAT IF...

TOM CORBETT

IS ELECTED?

SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE...

Strange Times

Strange Thing

Been over 40 years

Dylan's talking to me again

"You put your eyes in your pocket

And your nose on the ground.

There ought to be a law

Against you comin' around.

You should be made

To wear earphones.

Because something is happening

And you don't know what it is.

Do you Mr Jones?"

Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan

(Not quite the)

Same as it ever was...

ALL YOU FRACKERS EVERYWHERE

OH, YEAH

"Let us not talk falsely now

The hour is getting late"

Farm Aid 1985

WELCOME TO THE FRACKING LAYER CAKE

You’re born

You take shit

Get out in the world

You take more shit

Climb a little higher

Take less shit

Till one day

You’re up in the rarified atmosphere

And you’ve forgotten

What shit even looks like

Welcome to the layer cake, son

Aria - Lisa Gerard

FOLLOW THE FRACKING MONEY

MARCELLUS MONEY

HERE

FAN-FRACK'N-TASTIC

THANKS TO

COMMON CAUSE PENNSYLVANIA

HERE

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PA

HERE

"For Greed,

All Nature is Too Little"

Seneca

EPA "FRACKING" HEARING VIDEOS

From Monday's Rally in Binghamton

Many Thanks to ShaleShock

Walter Huang of Toxics Targeting

Sandra Steingraber of Ithaca College

Julie and Craig Sautner of Dimock

Thanks to Julie & Craig for speaking at GasStock last month!

Street Interviews including Joe Heath of the Onondgata Nation

(Note Jawbone Prickens giving away $100 Cheney Bills)

PLEASE VISIT SHALESHOCK

ShaleShock YouTube Channel HERE

ShaleShock Website HERE

ShaleShock Media HERE

COME ON

STAND UP PA

PEOPLE'S OIL & GAS SUMMIT

The People's Oil & Gas Summit is being held in Pennsylvania, the heart of the Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling boom.

Pittsburgh

Radisson Hotel Green Tree

November 19 & 20

Featured Speakers / Participants:

Lois Gibbs – environmental justice advocate, Love Canal activist, Executive Director, Center for Health, Environment and Justice

Dr. Theo Colburn – world renowned scientist, co-author of Our Stolen Future, President of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange 

Wilma Subra – MacArthur Genius Award Winner, chemist, environmental advocate, President of Subra Company 

Tony Ingraffea - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University (invited) 

Bill McKibben – author, journalist, environmentalist (invited) 

Josh Fox – “Gasland” filmaker 

Chris Cziksentmihalyi – Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media 

Abrahm Lustgarten – ProPublica investigative journalist (invited)

Andrew Nikiforuk – Canadian journalist and author 

Mark Ruffalo – actor, FRACKING activist (invited) 

Jim Fitzgerald – Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College, Colorado, gas-field activist 

TXSharon –Texas OGAP Organizer and Blogger 

John Fenton - affected landowner, Pavillion Wyoming 

Wes Gillingham – Program Director, Catskill Mountainkeeper

Activists and citizens from Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Canada.

Info & Register HERE

COME ON

FOMENT SOME DISSENT

EPA HEARING ON FRACKING

Democracy Now with

Josh Fox and Abrahm Lustgarten

Josh Fox Testimony

Josh Fox Interview

PROPERTY RIGHTS ?

The Question Then Becomes!

Click HERE

Thanks to TXsharon at Bluedaze!

If you'd like to see our future here on the Marcellus,

spend some time on Sharon's site.

Drilling on the Barnett is 2 or 3 years ahead of us.

More on this soon.

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE

"Natural Gas -

The Safe, Clean Burning Fuel"

?????

For the past three years in Texas,

Dallas area WFAA News 8  has reported on five cases of underground couplings that leaked natural gas into homes, causing explosions, deaths and injuries.

May 11 news report

Story HERE

June 24 News Report:

Story HERE

2008 Texas Railroad Commission Study

 Pipeline Safety Section

 Report on Compression Couplings

National Incident History:

Jan 10, 76 Fremont, NE - explosion and fire

Feb 8, 76 Phoenix, AZ - explosion and fire

Dec 15, 77 Lawrence, KS - explosion and fire

Jan 8, 81 Mexico, MO - explosion and fire

Feb 22, 85 Sharpsville, PA - explosion and fire - 3 dead

Feb 19, 04 Buffalo, MN - explosion and fire

Dec 28, 04 Ramsey, MN - explosion and fire - 3 dead

Texas Incident History:

Sep 28, 80 Keller - explosion

Oct 10, 98 Arlington - explosion

Dec 13, 2000 North Richland Hills - incident

May 24, 01 Dallas - incident

Oct 16, 06 Wylie - explosion and fire - 2 dead

Jan 25, 07 Missouri City - explosion and fire

May 29, 07 Cleburne - explosion and fire - 2 dead

Report HERE

There are an estimated
three million compression couplings
still in the ground in Texas.

HOW MANY IN THE COUNTRY?

Who are the real
Environmental Extremists?

National Wildlife Federation
Assault on America
"From 2000 to 2010, the oil and gas industry accounted for hundreds of deaths, explosions, fires, seeps, and spills as well as habitat and wildlife destruction in the United States. These disasters demonstrate a pattern of feeding the addiction to oil leaving in their wake sacrifice zones that affect communities, local economies, and our landscapes. "
Story HERE
Report HERE

Who are the real
LUNATIC FRINGE?

Watch Out - Hold Tight
We're in for Nasty Weather

The Talking Heads