DEC Permits Fracking and a Dump-In is Held Upstate

The DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation has permitted Gastem USA to Frack in Otsego County, New York. A well attended protest took place Thursday.

According to Cooperstown News Bureau, the company is likely to wait until spring. The moratorium on Fracking that passed in the senate, expires in May, and hasn't yet passed in the House.

It is part of the DEC's constitution to help the Oil and Gas Industries.


In Rochester, CEOs of Halliburton and Chesapeake Energy celebrated five years of profits from Fracking, by holding a public dump-in and press conference. They toasted with wine glasses full of flaming, toxic water and subsequently dumped buckets of toxic water into a reservoir to symbolize Fracking, which they held to be a patriotic subindustry. They hired a woman to dance with a flaming hula hoop in appreciation of the Halliburton Loophole, which exempts Fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act and other acts won by the environmental movement in the early 1970s. Protesters such as Emily Good, asked challenging questions during the press conference and chanted, "It's Our Water, We Will Fight!" at the CEOs while they dumped the toxic water.

Eco Justice Essay for Mass Distribution/Consideration... & Marcellus Protest

A Proposal to the Youth Environmental Movement is an essay that I wrote for students and youth that are somehow ecologically involved or concerned, even if on the outermost peripheral of what you might call Green, or wanting to be, even. It's ten pages long and it's also for anyone totally involved, so please comment and spread it to where you think it should go, if you think it should go somewhere. It is most relevant within the next month or two.

The Marcellus Protest is going to be on November 3rd in Pittsburgh and it's not unrealistic to find a ride there so just ask me on Facebook or at shannonayala@rocketmail.com if you want to find a way there.

Marcellus Protest Website
Invite people on Facebook.

A Proposal for the Youth Environmental Movement

Emergency Call to to Action is a march that will start at Columbus Circle and rally at Fox News, holding Fox accountable or a major attribute to the recent tragedies and injustices involving LGBTQ, Muslim and immigrant people, this Saturday at 11AM.