The United Frack-Free States of Facebook
I’m in a love-hate with Facebook. Heaven knows I let it consume me at times. Just when I think we’ve got something going, it blocks me, makes me stop and fill in endless, annoying security codes. Maybe if I only posted pictures of my dinner and other people’s cats?
The upcoming onset of FrackNation, a pro-gas mockumentary which by all reports is chock full of industry half-truths and overt lies,demonstrates a clear dichotomy in America. We’ve quickly become a nation of Pro-Gas v. Anti-Fracking, Anti-Renewables v. Pro-Land, Air & Water. No matter how much you want to avoid polemicizing the issues, there remains a detailed and widening divide. Despite the catchy title of Phelim McAleer’s new philm, wholly reminiscent of ProzacNation, it seems opposition to shale gas production in the United States of America is only growing. Wherever the gas industry goes, sanity springs up beside it. And yet again, the annual tally of anti-fracking facebook groups across the U.S.A. has exploded.
Green Slime Is In The Hoouse!
Facebook pages and groups opposing natural gas steadily multiplied in shale states in 2012, adding to the numerous national and international pages already thriving. Considering the sheer preponderance of frack waste, methane contamination, explosions, toxic air emissions, truck traffic, earthquakes, radioactive drill cuttings, and other fraccidents, is it any wonder?
Most groups are Open, so you can read the newsfeed. Please “Like” pages that suit you, it certainly boosts morale, only be sure to set the Notifications to your liking, or risk update overload. Share and share alike! Despite the drillers’ depiction, fractivists are a diverse and friendly lot.
Not on Facebook? Good for you! I swear, I’m getting over it too. Here’s a link to Anti-Fracking Websites.
A FACEBOOK FULL OF FRACTIVISTS: State-by-State Listings
[UPDATED: January 16, 2013 – Many thanks for all the helpful comments!]
ALABAMA
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
No Fracking in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs No Fracking Zone
IDAHO
Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction – IRAGE
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
Indiana Against KXL and Fracking
KANSAS
MARYLAND
Maryland Fracking Moratorium Now
No Fracking In Western Maryland
MICHIGAN
MONTANA
No Fracking in Montana
NEW JERSEY
Food & Water Watch, New Jersey
NEW YORK
New York Residents Against Drilling (NYRAD)
Clean Water Not Dirty Drilling
Don’t Frack With New York’s Drinking Water
Finger Lakes Anti-Fracking Coalition
Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy
Western New York Drilling Defense
Coalition to Protect New York Water
Stop The Constitution Pipeline
NORTH CAROLINA
Lee County NC say NO to Fracking
Don’t Frack North Carolina – Citizens say no to Fracking in NC
OHIO
No Fracking in Ohio State Parks
Don’t Frack With Tiscarawas County
PENNSYLVANIA
Gas Drilling Awareness Coaltion
Food & Water Watch, Pennsylvania
Fracking in Northeast Pennsylvania
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
Marcellus Outreach Butler County (MOB)
Stop the Commonwealth Pipeline – Chester County
WEST VIRGINIA
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NATIONWIDE
Sierra Club ‘Hydro-Fracking’ Team
Nurse Rise – Nurses for Safe Water
Please add your fb page or group to the comments and I will update – thanks!
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WEBSITES: Anti-Fracking Grassroots Blogroll
For a comprehensive listing of Pennsylvania groups opposed to Fracking, please visit FrackFreePA!
Follow on Twitter @Fractivista
Tags: Anti-Fracking Groups USA, FrackNation, Green Slime, Phelim McAleer
Keep Tap Water Safe 
January 15, 2013 at 1:02 pm |
thanks for adding Lee CountyNC’s facebook page .I spend way too much time there too. But we Have to get the word out where ever we can. Please check out a new Page called “stand your ground NC against fracking ” on FB too. Ed is fighting the “forced pooling in NC” it has been said by many G&O companies ,”If forced pooling is Not allowed in NC ,it would Not make them enough$$ to come to NC!
Let’s Stop Forced Pooling and we have a chance in hell in beating them. We must Unite to make this happen.
January 16, 2013 at 3:38 am |
Hi Liz– what an impossible job to undertake lists like this! (bows) i would love it if you would list Lehigh Valley Gas Truth which was the twin in the womb with Berks Gas Truth both of which i love dearly 🙂 i also clicked through to the FRACK FREE PA website (which i love so!), and was surprised that Lehigh Valley Gas Truth was not under the Lehigh Valley groups. haha. no doubt you are busy but since that is my target activist “market”, i would LOVE it if that site sent folks our way! http://www.facebook.com/lehighvalleygastruth
THANKS!
January 16, 2013 at 7:24 am |
thanks, Julie! sorry for the omission – it’s there now!