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Art of the common-place	For most of the history of this country our motto, implied or spoken, has been Think Big...Thinking Big has has led us to the two biggest and cheapest political dodges of our time: plan-making and law-making. read more
Auburn Sewer Use Law	Email correspondence between William M. Foster, Auburn, NY and Fracking Resource Guide. The letter published in the Auburn Citizen on April 1, 2011 follows at the end of this post. read more
Colossal Fracking Mess	To regard its unspoiled beauty on a spring morning, you might be led to believe that the river is safely off limits from the destructive effects of industrialization. Unfortunately, you’d be mistaken. The Delaware is now the most endangered river in the country, according to the conservation group American Rivers. read more
Frack Waste Water Deadly Journey: Bromides and Chlorine	The bromides themselves are not a public health risk - they account for a tiny part of the salty dissolved solids that create an unpleasant taste in water at elevated levels. ...But bromides react with the chlorine disinfectants used by drinking water to form brominated trihalomethanes (THMs), a volatile organic compound. read more
Climate Co-benefits and Child Mortality Wedges	Climate change issues bring into greater prominence that all the world's people are linked together and that we all have a stake in creating a sustainable path for the planet and no such path can allow for 10 million avoidable child deaths each year. read more
WikiLeaks Cables Confirm U.S. "Bullying and Buying"	Some of the new data [Wikileaks] coming out today makes it clear that everyone’s suspicion that the U.S. was both bullying and buying countries into endorsing their do-little position on climate were even sort of worse than we had realized... read more
Fracking Canada	Stop Fracking Ontario is a web project to inform and promote activism against fracking in Ontario, in the surrounding region, and elsewhere. read more
Strong Push	Sens. Tony Avella, D-Whitestone, Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, and Joseph Addabbo, D-Queens, introduced a package of bills April 11 that includes three bills for tighter regulations and transparency for oil and gas drilling and a bill by Avella to ban hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, in New York State. read more
Fracking Fluid Ban in Buffalo $Protests urge fracking fluid ban$	Protestors outside the Buffalo offices of the Department of Environmental Conservation today called for an executive order by Governor Andrew Cuomo to define fracking fluid as a hazardous waste and ban its treatment by municipal facilities... read more
Canadian Fracking Suit $Lawsuit against government, Encana highlights 'fracking' environmental issues$	The lawyer leading a $33-million lawsuit against Encana, the Alberta government and the province’s energy regulator says the case speaks to broader environmental concerns across North America about fracking. read more

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