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Gasland II draws an energetic audience at the Carolina Theater of Durham! Photo by Lee Ziesche Almost 500 folks came to Durham’s Carolina Theatre on Mon. Oct 7 to see Gasland 2 and participate in a lively Q & A with Director Josh Fox. The documentary explores in powerful detail the impacts of […] Monday, Oct. 7 at 7:00 PM – Durham Co-sponsors: Working Films’ Reel Power & Clean Water for NC Join us for a special screening of Gasland, part II with filmmaker Josh Fox! Tickets for this event are FREE but you must reserve a ticket online, print it from the email confirmation, and bring […] Wednesday, August 28 at 1 PM 217 W Jones St., Raleigh, NC 27603 We need landowners to speak out against compulsory pooling (“forced pooling”) in NC, saying how it would affect them! The compulsory pooling study group will make recommendations during this meeting, including deciding whether or not compulsory pooling should remain legal […] The families who live on and near federal lands were among the first to tell us the impacts fracking would bring: the toxic air, contaminated water, people with respiratory and neurological illness, dying animals. The Obama administration’s Bureau of Land Management has proposed WEAK rules for fracking on federally owned lands, and comments are due […] Call and E-mail NOW – ask Governor, Senators, Reps., to OPPOSE S127 & H74 After Senate Bill 76 passed this week without lifting the moratorium on fracking, members of the General Assembly have inserted the “fast-track” fracking language into Senate Bill 127 (Conference Substitute) to try to sneak it through under the public’s nose! The […] Ask your Representatives to vote to OPPOSE S76, which would make the “rush to frack” even more dangerous for communities in several regions of NC: Last year’s Senate Bill 820, required one final vote of approval after seeing the regulations developed by the Mining and Energy Commission, BEFORE permitting could start. SB76 ignores this […] On Monday, July 2nd, a late-night override of Governor Perdue’s veto of the fracking bill (S820) was heartbreaking, but an indicator of how much we have all done together. The grassroots support for sustaining a veto was so strong that fracking supporters had to resort to buying off legislators to win. We are still strong, […] |