Saturday, July 20, 2013

Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Cancellation of Gas Leases and Drilling Plans in NE Pennsylvania | Alternet

Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Cancellation of Gas Leases and Drilling Plans in NE Pennsylvania | Alternet


“I can’t believe it and I can’t stop crying,” Fox said, adding that he is deeply grateful for this “amazing victory.” “This proves that people passionate and organized can actually win sometimes. We won’t stop until we win everywhere.”
It’s no happenstance that the unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurred in a region that is home both to Josh Fox, fractivism’s heroic Pied Piper, and to the first fractivist organization founded in the Northeast U.S., Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS)— making it a triumph both for Fox and for the dedicated grassroots effort by a community of neighbors that began in 2007.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Help stop the Kimberley from becoming a polluted gasfield | Clean Water, Healthy Land

Help stop the Kimberley from becoming a polluted gasfield | Clean Water, Healthy Land

The WA State Government has introduced legislation into the WA Parliament to open up the vast and spectacular Kimberley region to toxic gas fracking at a scale never seen before in Australia!
The proposed laws would promote the development of thousands of gas fracking wells across the unique Kimberley region.
Without consultation or environmental assessment, these laws would commit the state of Western Australia to supporting an industry that will have a devastating impact on the cultural and environmental values of one of the most precious places on Earth.
In his rush to see this legislation passed as soon as possible, Premier Barnett has even attempted to suspend usual Parliamentary process in an attempt to rush the bill through!
Use the form opposite to send an urgent message asking your local Member of Parliament to vote this appalling legislation down
Shale gas fracking is a highly risky process. A cocktail of chemicals are pumped underground at extreme pressures- high enough to fracture deep underground rocks to release trapped gas.
If this legislation is passed unopposed, then the gas industry will have a red-carpet welcome to pollute and destroy one of the most precious places on Earth.
Please take action now to stop the Kimberley being turned into a toxic gasland.
Your message will go to your local Member of Parliament, with copies forwarded to Premier Barnett and Environment Minister, Albert Jacob.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Barnett to oppose Browse Basin lease changes

Barnett to oppose Browse Basin lease changes

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett will oppose a push by the Woodside-led Browse Basin gas project partners to alter the conditions of their retention leases and process the gas offshore, rather than on the Kimberley coast.
The refusal to change the gas leases will frustrate plans by the Browse partners – Woodside, Shell, BP, Mitsubishi/Mitsui and PetroChina – to progress the multibillion-dollar project using floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) ­technology.
Mr Barnett told The Australian Financial Review he had no intention of adhering to calls to relax conditions in the Browse gas retention leases con­trolled by the state.
“They don’t expire till the end of next year so you may ask, ‘Why the rush?’ ” Mr Barnett said in an interview.

Monday, July 8, 2013

Who's Intimidating Who? - Unconventional Gas, CSG

8054 - HERITAGE FIGHT | Melbourne International Film Festival

8054 - HERITAGE FIGHT | Melbourne International Film Festival

The inside story of the fight against one of the world's biggest mining developments.
In 2008 a consortium of miners and politicians decided to build the world's second biggest natural gas plant in Broome, trampling over the concerns of residents, environmentalists and traditional owners alike. Yet in April this year - in a stunning victory for the resolute, peaceful community opposition - Woodside announced they were shelving the entire $45 billion project.
Documentarian Eugénie Dumont's Heritage Fight tells the story of this battle from the trenches in which it was won. Matching glorious cinematography with candid on-the-ground footage and revealing interviews with the key players, Dumont offers an impassioned portrait of the Indigenous and environmental activists fighting to halt the development, and the power of a united community to take on the world.