ESSAY OF THE WEEK
Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families
Their names are Carol, Steve & Jackie, Susan, Marilyn & Robert, and Christine. They share a bond. Two bonds, actually: They all own, or owned, farms. And those farms, along with their own health and the health of their farm animals, have all been ruined by fracking.
More than 600,000 fracking wells and waste injection sites have popped up all over the country, according to ProPublica. The oil and gas industry, along with federal regulators, would have you believe that injecting trillions of gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth is harmless. Tell that to Jacki Schilke of North Dakota, who lost two dogs, five cows, chickens – and her health – after 32 oil and gas wells sprouted up within three miles of her ranch. Or Christine Moore, a horse rescuer in Ohio who sold her farm after a well went up five miles from her farm, creating an oily film on her water and making her too sick to care for her horses.
You’ve heard it before. No farms, no food. As one farmer said, “If they frack all the farms, there isn’t going to be any organic.”
Read the essay
Get Involved: Stop the Frack Attack!
Have
a fracking story to share? Want to become a better spokesperson for the
anti-fracking movement? Like to learn more about clean energy
alternatives, celebrate fracking victories, strengthen the national
movement? Join others who share your concerns and motivation.
Join the OCA in Dallas, Texas, for the National Summit to Stop the Frack Attack, Mar. 2-4.
Join the OCA in Dallas, Texas, for the National Summit to Stop the Frack Attack, Mar. 2-4.
Can’t make it? Help someone else attend!
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Give Us Some Truth: Artists Against Fracking
Yoko Ono and Artists Against Fracking Find Out What Fracking Has Done to Pennsylvania from JFOX on Vimeo.
“Democracy is messy, that’s the way it works. And we need to take the time for something that’s this huge, to really make sure we think it through.” Watch Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono and other Artists against Fracking tour Pennsylvania where hundreds of families’ water supplies have been polluted by fracking.
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