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L’Eau DeBenedictis: Aqua America, Water Insecurity, The Manufacture of Scarcity, and Fracking

December 8, 2012 5

Merely “surreal” might describe the interview given by Aqua America’s CEO, Nick DeBenedictis, to Crissa Shoemaker DeBree did the fact that he is lying not portend such devastating consequences for so many people. The security […]

The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Part 3)

November 29, 2012 1

Editors Note: This is the third piece in Wendy’s “The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing” Series. Part 1 and Part 2 can be found on the […]

Green-Washing and Gender-Sanitizing Fracking: Rachael Colley and Nicole Jacobs of Energy in Depth

November 20, 2012 2

One example of the complicity of some women in the promotion of the extraction industry is the exchange between Nicole Jacobs, Rachael Colley, and myself concerning my piece, ”The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club, (YouTube: The Good […]

The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Women of Fracking – The Courageous, the Extorted, and the Excuseless (Part 2)

November 18, 2012 33

Long ago Karl Marx argued that one of the hallmark characteristics of the marketing required to support mass production was the creation of a kind of false consciousness, that is, a sense of needing things […]

The Good Ole’ Boy Extraction Club: The Pseudo-Patriotic and Pervasively Patriarchal Culture of Hydraulic Fracturing (Why Breast Cancer is the Canary in the Fracking Coal Mine)

November 15, 2012 6

Enclosed is a Susquehanna University presentation of parts I-II of a longer research paper I will be posting in segments here and on Raging Chicken Press over the next two weeks. The title is: The Good […]

Letter to Bloomsburg University President Soltz: A Contract with Stantec is a Contract with Genocidal Profiteering

November 9, 2012 0

In my email this morning: “What does the future look like at Bloomsburg University? Share your thoughts at the Master Plan Open Forum TODAY Friday, Nov. 9, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Hartline Science […]

Bring on the Hurricane. It Can’t Be Worse Than the Frack-Storm That’s Already Laying Us to Siege

October 28, 2012 2

On October 10th of 2011, in response to the tremendous destruction of Hurricane Lee for my town, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding townships, I wrote a short piece titled ” Fracking, Floods, and Fools” (Fracking, […]

Buried Beneath some Shrubs and Grass and Wildflowers is Nothing but Frack-Tastrophe: Compressor Station Construction, Janet Hock Road, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, 10.13.12

October 14, 2012 28

It’s difficult to capture the sense of palpable anxiety I felt taking these sets of photographs. This is the Janet Hock Road compressor construction site in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania that I have been documenting for […]

The Industrialization of PASSHE: Where the Public Good, its Students, and its Faculty are Auctioned Off to the Extraction Profiteers (Or: Extortion by Extraction)

October 7, 2012 11

1. Pennsylvania Senate Bill 367 and Chancellor Cavanaugh’s Plan to Industrialize Higher Education Dory Hippauf’s “Welcome to PA Frack-U” offers an excellent profile of the Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 367: “an act providing for indigenous mineral […]

SHALE GAS OUTRAGE=STANDING UP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE=THE ENVIRONMENT IS HOME TO US ALL

September 19, 2012 1

I am not able to be at Shale Gas Outrage in person–though I’d give an ARM to be–but I have been offered an AWESOME opportunity of three beautiful minutes to talk about one of the […]