Abe Bobman ’12 wants to frack you like an animal:
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” (invented by Haliburton) is a new nautral gas extraction method blowing shit up. The EPA is for the most part refusing to regulate it, though over a 1,000 people have had their water contaminated across the U.S. Natural gas companies are now hoping to “frack” in the watershed of NYC and Philly…
Come see an energetic movie (2010 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize Winner
now being carried by HBO, if that matters) that deals with the history of this environmental injustice.
Date: No-frack-november 19
Time: 4:30 PM
Place: Judd 116
Read on for info about even more frickin’ frackin’ events.
If you want to continue the conversation, join activist Claire Sandberg (co-founder of the group Frack Action which was instrumental in forcing the NY State Senate to pass a temporary moratorium on hydraulic fracturing) the following Saturday for two workshops…
Date: November 20, 2010
Times: 12:00 PM – “What the Frack?” and 2:30 PM – “Building a Movement Against Fracking”
Place: Usdan 108