Ads Cost Money But The Truth About Shale Gas Drilling Is Free
I laugh a little when I hear Gas Industry folks complain about how well-funded the anti-fracking movement is. To which groups are they referring? I’m a fractivist. I volunteer, and I’m in very good company. The organizations I support are transparent about their funding, too, even if it’s the wrong brand of donor, as was recently the case with Sierra Club. Difficult as it must have been, Sierra came clean about Chesapeake Energy underwriting its Beyond Coal campaign. Now, I suspect, they’re working doubly hard to get beyond Gas.
It’s true, there’s a growing list of major environmental groups who want to ban or limit Unconventional Gas Drilling, and they have relatively “major” funding. Some of them are linked at right. In true grassroots fashion, though, there are far more unsung heroes comprising the ever-expanding, unpaid anti-fracking chorus.
These cats have computers, and they aren’t afraid to use them. Each, in their own way, is establishing a public record of extreme gas extraction and its assault on our water, air and land. I don’t imagine I’ve aggregated them all, but the sites listed below are packed with Fracking facts, aimed squarely at dispelling Shale Gas fictions.
Anti-Fracking Bloggers Blogroll
Action PA: www.actionpa.org
Amy Mall’s Blog: switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amall
Allegheny Defense Project: alleghenydefenseproject.wordpress.com
Barnett Shale Hell (Texas): barnettshalehell.wordpress.com
Berks Gas Truth: hwww.gastruth.org
Bluedaze Drilling Reform: texassharon.com
Bob’s Blog: donnan.com/fracking-water.htm
Calvin Tillman, Dish TX: baddish.blogspot.com
Catskill Mountainkeeper: catskillmountainkeeper.org/our-programs/fracking/marcellus-shale
Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy: catskillcitizens.org
Center for Healthy Environments and Communities: chec.pitt.edu/MSGEcommunity.html
Cheap Tricks & Costly Truths: jamminmole.blogspot.com
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability: damascuscitizens.org
Danger Drilling: dangerdrilling.com
River Voice, The Delaware Riverkeeper’s blog: delawarerivervoice.blogspot.com
De-Smog Blog: desmogblog.com
Energy Policy Forum: energypolicyforum.com
Faces of Frackland, PA: pafaces.wordpress.com
FrackAlert, Northeast PA Residents & Landowners Against Fracking: frackalert.org
Fracked: frackedagain.blogspot.com
Fracking Curation Project: fracktivism.wordpress.com
Fracking Underground: frackingunderground.blogspot.com
FrackMountain: frackmountain.wordpress.com
FracTracker.org: fracktrack.org/impact.php
Marcellus Mapping Tool, new and Improved to track of the enactment of local impact fees.
Gas Drilling Awareness Coaltion: gdacoalition.org
Gas Exploitation, Assault to the Senses, Dimock, PA: gasexploitation.wordpress.com
Gas Safety USA: gassafetyusa.com/blog
Gas Wells Are Not Our Friends, Dear Susquehanna: dearsusquehanna.blogspot.com
Gas Wells on the Monongahela: monongahelagas.wordpress.com
Hydrofracking Virginia: hydrofracking.virginiajournal.org
Luzerne County Citizens for Clean Water: lcccw.wordpress.com
Marcellus Effect: marcelluseffect.blogspot.com
Marcellus Mayhem: marcellusmayhem.blogspot.com
Marcellus Protest: marcellusprotest.org
Marcellus Shale-US: marcellus-shale.us
Fracking photojournalism at its best.
Natural Gas Watch, gas explosion watchdogs: naturalgaswatch.org
Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation: peacecouncil.net/NOON/hydrofrac
No Fracking in New York Aquifers: nofracking.com
NEPA Gas Action, Citizens for Clean Water, Susquehanna County, PA: nepagasaction.org
Protecting Our Waters: protectingourwaters.wordpress.com
Protect The Endless Mountains of PA: endlessmountains.blogspot.com
Responsible Drilling Alliance: responsibledrillingalliance.org
Sane Energy Project, NYC: saneenergyproject.org
Save Our Streams PA: saveourstreamspa.org
Save The Delaware: savethedelaware.wordpress.com
Shale Gas Review, Tom Wilbur’s new book, Under The Surface, is due out this spring: tomwilber.blogspot.com
Shale Shock!: shaleshock.org
Solid Shale, New York State: solidshale.wordpress.com
Splashdown PA, Defending Our Water Now!: splashdownpa.blogspot.com
Un-Natural Gas: un-naturalgas.org/weblog
What The Frack?: wtfrackorg.blogspot.com
List is by no means complete… Please send thoughts, or links you like!
Keep Tap Water Safe 
March 8, 2012 at 2:10 pm |
great aggregation of sites/resources…thanks for all your efforts, Liz!