‘Sense of Place’ Discourses in Anti-fracking Struggles and Lessons for Degrowth
What is the role of ‘sense of place’ discourses in anti-fracking struggles and can the degrowth movement learn anything from them?
anti-fracking campaigns
Colorado’s Oil and Gas Industry Goes after Reporters and Signature Gatherers in New fracking Fight
As Colorado gears up for another fight over oil and gas drilling near homes and schools, this time the fossil fuel industry is reportedly doing whatever it takes to win.
Community Fights Massive Drilling Site Planned near Public School in Low-Income Area
Residents of a city along Colorado’s Front Range are fighting the construction of a major oil and gas drilling site set to be completed next year near a public school attended mostly by low-income students of color.
Environmentalists just Gained a New Enemy in the Fight against Natural Gas Pipelines
The electric utility sector’s top lobbying group is teaming up with fossil fuel trade associations as part of an effort to intensify the industry’s campaign against citizen and environmental groups opposed to fracking and new natural gas pipelines.
This Grassroots Louisiana Organization in a Conservative Parish Wants to Ban Fracking
Citizens in Louisiana are attempting to use their grassroots movement to prevent a company from fracking in their community, and despite the odds have shown that community organizing and coordination can achieve results in the face of formidable obstacles.
Energy from Below: the Anti-Fracking Movement
The anti-fracking movement is about more than ecological issues. Discussing alternative ways to organize energy and society are central to this struggle.
Gasland II: From Broken Promises to Renewable Solutions
Sometimes people tell me, “If you cover fracking, you really need to see that film—that film, what’s it called?” “Gasland?” I’ll offer helpfully. “Yes, that’s it.”
Frack fight
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life.