Tag Archives: hydraulic fracturing

Tonight: “Don’t Frack With Our Water” – Screening/Discussion

Tonight especially for all of you out there the Western NY Drilling Defense in conjunction with Burning Books Buffalo will present a special screening of “The Sky is Pink“. This short film produced by Josh Fox explores

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WNY Canvass To Ban Fracking

Coming up this Sunday (7/22/2012) 11am-2pm “Fracking is a toxic drilling technique that could soon invade New York, putting our water, air, and land at risk! In Western New York volunteers are needed to help reach as many people as … Continue reading

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Scenes from Children and Families Speak-Out & Vigil

This is a video of the first of 4 visits to National Fuel Gas headquarters in Williamsville NY. Members of the National Fuel Accountability Coalition will visit National Fuel Gas headquarters each week of July 2012. Community members have been … Continue reading

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UB Clear Press Conference

Coming up this Thursday (June 28, 2012, @ 12 noon) will be a press conference called for by concerned citizens. They will be meeting at the corner of Main and Bailey, on the UB South Campus, with the covered entrance … Continue reading

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Scenes from “A People’s Hearing on Fracking”

A cool vid fron “A People’s Hearing on Fracking” held Saturday June 2, 2012 inside the Burchfield Penney Art Center for info see http://www.peopleshearing.com/

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RALLY TO BAN FRACKING NOW: Buffalo, NY MAY 3, 2012

It has been well documented of the dangers hydraulic fracturing (or fracking, hydrofracking) poses for the planet. Many of the well known dangers like ground water contamination and ground movements (earthquakes) have had devastating effects on people in

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Announcing the New Shale Institute at UB

Buck Quigley of Artvoice enlightens us with a piece about a new research institute operating at the University of Buffalo. This new research institute is supposed be studying the workings of hydrofracking in the Marcellous Shale region of New York … Continue reading

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Faking The Funk

This info in from the good folks over at Re-Energize Buffalo; Apparently National Fuel Gas and some other energy companies have been faking the funk (or pretending to be something they are not) when it comes to being green. Greenwashing: … Continue reading

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NFAC EXCLUSIVE: National Fuel Gas CEO David F. Smith talks about his new mixtape and upcoming album projects

NFAC: So Dave man what’s up man? At the last interview you felt a certain kind of way. It got kind of heated, and you walked out on me. You aiight now? DS: Yeah, yeah, I’m cool now. I wasn’t … Continue reading

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Obama backs hydrofracking in State of the Union speech

By Philip Guelpa In his recent State of the Union message, US president Barack Obama expressed strong support for the use of hydrofracking for the extraction of natural gas from shale formations. The move was immediately seen as an attempt … Continue reading

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