Stories by Sabrina Artel

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How Fracking Is a Danger to Your Health

Posted on: Oct 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Amid controversy, New York will embark on a health impacts study, but residents living in the gaslands are already speaking out about their experiences.

South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citizens Alarmed By U.S. Fracking Examples

Posted on: Sep 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

South African farmers came to the U.S. to see what fracking might do to their land -- and what they learned terrified them.

Thousands Converge in Washington to Launch National Movement Against Fracking

Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The rally demanded that Congress take immediate action to protect our health and our water from the harmful effects of hydro-fracturing for gas and oil.

Fracking Los Angeles: What Life Is Like on the Country's Biggest Urban Oilfield

Posted on: Jun 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Unregulated fracking is happening in Los Angeles communities and residents are taking action and raising their voices in protest.

One More Day to Act: Gas Drilling May Begin in New York Soon

Posted on: Jan 10, 2012, Source: AlterNet

It's down to the final wire for public comments on the proposed regulations to allow for industrial gas drilling and fracking in New York.

Josh Fox: Are We About to Witness the Liquidation Sale of New York and its Drinking Water?

Posted on: Nov 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The "Gasland" filmmaker talks about the threats not just from fracking, but from oil, coal and any number of extreme energy extraction methods.

Mark Ruffalo: We Can Go Gracefully Into a Green Future, Or We Can Go Kicking and Screaming, But There Is No Choice

Posted on: Sep 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo discusses his new organization Farmhearts, fracking, protecting our water and the future of our country.

Grassroots Groups Unite For Statewide Ban on Fracking in New York

Posted on: Aug 10, 2011, Source: AlterNet

"We spent three years trying to prove that fracking could be done safely, and what we learned is that it can't be done safely. It is incredibly dangerous; it is incredibly toxic."

Banning Corporate Personhood: How Communities Are Taking the Law Back from Big Companies

Posted on: Jul 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explains how communities can fight corporate power with a new legal weapon.

Home Rule: How Communities Can Stand Up to Polluting Industries and Decide the Future of Their Towns

Posted on: Jun 24, 2011, Source: AlterNet

If you think that nothing can be done on the local level to combat big polluters like gas fracking companies, think again.

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: Why Food and Fuel Shouldn't Mix -- A Farmer Speaks Out On the Dangers of Fracking

Posted on: May 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Farmer Greg Swartz talks about trying to maintain an organic farm in the face of increasing gas drilling in rural Pennsylvania.

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Speak Out Along With the Flimmaker of FRACK! The Movie

Posted on: May 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Filmmaker David Morris and organizers from Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy discuss why they're helping to lead the charge against fracking.

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: What Happens When Gas Drillers Ruin Your Home and Water? You Fight Back.

Posted on: May 5, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Julie and Craig Sautner of Dimock, Pennsylvania who live on Carter Road and are among one of 14 families there that have lost their water.

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: Why a Mayor Was Forced to Leave His Town Because of Gas Drilling

Posted on: Apr 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Major Calvin Tillman left his beloved community of Dish, Texas (that has 60 gas wells) to protect his family from the dangers of natural gas drilling.

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: New York Attorney General Threatens to Sue Feds If They Don't Study Impact of Fracking

Posted on: Apr 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

"We can't afford to get this wrong even once." Delaware River Basin residents talk about their fracking concerns.

Trailer Talk's Frack Talk: Can New York's Water Be Protected From Gas Drilling?

Posted on: Apr 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Here's the threats that New York's water faces from fracking and what residents are doing to try and protect it.