[Doug Shields at Food and Water Watch requested the following notice be shared. Slightly edited by NoPetroPA] As you may know, Plum Borough is about to finally vote on a new zoning ordinance that would allow for fracking in a significant portion of the borough in the newly created “Rural Residential” zoning district. We (Food … Continue reading Food and Water Watch Seeks Weekend Phone Volunteers to Counter Fracking in Plum
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The Clean Air Council has initiated a program in Southwestern PA to organize a large number of small groups (of about 10 people in each group) of air quality advocates via a multi-unit curriculum broken down into monthly segments. Leaders are expected to gather their own "group of ten" and meet each month...
...a company called Merrion has applied for and received a conditional use permit for a hydraulic fracturing (fracking) well in North Versailles at U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson mill...
The Shell Ethane Cracker represents approximately $6B of investment, and the PTT facility is reported to be a $5B facility. That makes two foreign companies eager to build massive industrial facilities in our region to pollute our residents for the sake of a global economy that is already awash with so much plastic we can reasonably expect the ocean to contain more plastic than fish by 2050...
The first day of this conference was filled with valuable new connections and insights from hard-working activists from around the country. I've collected some key insights, links, and reflections...
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