The Marcellus Shale Reality Tour: Black Water In the Marcellus
The Marcellus Shale Reality Tour comes to us by way of Scott Cannon of Luzerne County, PA Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition. In March 2012, Scott got in touch with us to see if the […]
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Mothers United for Sustainable Technologies Video Series, Episodes 1-3
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Raging Chicken Press Facebook Fan Spirito Di Verità for letting us know about this series. This is the kind of on-the-ground activism by everyday people that is critical to protect our […]
Krancer-Gate: Organizations Demand PA-DEP Reveal all Data from Water Tests.
Editors Note: The following letter comes from 25 Pennsylvania grassroots and environmental organizations demanding that the PA Department of Environmental Protection release all water testing results pertaining to natural gas drilling. The letter is […]
Should Penn State Lose Accrediation for Marcellus Shale Advocacy?
If you are a major university and research institution and if members of your staff are blatant advocates for a genocidal, profiteering, propaganda mongering industry, your institution deserves to lose all accreditation – at least […]
Prominent Conservation Society to Take $30 Million from Chesapeake Energy?
Suppose you are a leader of a nationally prominent environmental conservation society or even a local conversation society. Let’s say the society is the Audubon Society or the Ruffed Grouse Society, whose missions, respectively, are: “To conserve […]
“The Fracking News” | from Coalition for a Healthy County
Editor’s Note: “The Fracking News” comes to Raging Chicken Press by way of our new friends from Coalition for a Healthy County. The Coalition for a Healthy County (CHC) is a coalition of concerned citizens and local and state organizations […]
The Unholy Alliance of Big Energy, Big University, Big State: My Exchange with Terry Engelder
Perhaps the most incredible thing about my recent public listserv and consequent email exchange with Penn State geologist Terry Engelder is his explicit insistence that I “do not have permission to put this material on […]
Fracking is a Variety of Environmental Rape Abetted by the Law: Governor Corbett’s Pennsylvania, Inc.
Perhaps the most alarming fact about hydraulic fracturing—fracking—is that it’s still going on at all despite the enormity of the evidence against it. Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon must think there’s a special god just for […]
Occupy Well Street: Frack the Keystone XL
To the editor, Of all the CEOs who epitomize the corporate greed driving Occupy Wall Street, Chesapeake Energy’s Aubrey McClendon is the poster child. Pulling down 112.5 million in 2010, McClendon is the 1% who […]