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riverbendviewgal

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11. the cat is out of the bag regarding the dangers of fracking.
Tue May 27, 2014, 03:29 PM
May 2014
http://www.opednews.com/articles/3/New-Environmentalists-Taki-by-Kevin-Zeese-and-Ma-Activism-Environmental_Climate_Climate-Change_Global-Warming-140526-72.html

And, many of these activists are finding courage they did not know they had. Recently Jenny Lysak interrupted a Democratic Gubernatorial debate in Pennsylvania -- a state that has sold out to fracking interests. Jenny says "I'm not particularly brave; I just feel that there is nothing anyone could do to me worse than what they are doing to our planet and to the families who can no longer live in their homes." She rushed the stage of the debate and held up a "List of the Harmed," a list of 1,700 families impacted by fracking. The list is now over 6,000.

There are a growing number of Jenny Lysak's. People are standing up as they see their neighborhoods, communities and planet ruined by the voracious appetite of extreme profit from energy extraction at a time when we should be creating a carbon-free/nuclear-free energy environment. People are learning they have more power than they realize and are being inspired to use it.

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Most of my family in north Georgia get their water from the Chattahoochee & Lake Lanier Glorfindel May 2014 #6
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..affect everyone everywhere! bvar22 May 2014 #9
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the cat is out of the bag regarding the dangers of fracking. riverbendviewgal May 2014 #11
kickers!... n/t annabanana May 2014 #12
Thats all the west end of the state Lee-Lee May 2014 #13
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