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Confronting Energy Tyranny

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July/August
2012
Vol. 21
Number 5
ISSN: 
0897-2613

 

 

After the hottest summer in recorded history, extractive industries are still attempting to dig in the backyards of communities across the country, release carbon into the air, and poison people in their all-consuming quest for more dirty energy.
 
And RESIST grantees are fighting back.

Table of Contents:

Polluters: Kiss Your Profits Goodbye
By James Kane

It’s a cold, rainy November morning on the slopes of an abandoned strip mine somewhere in the southern Appalachians. Dead grass carpets the slowly decaying, slumping piles of mining waste, hurriedly piled against the vertical gashes in what was once a mountain ridge. Mining companies abandoned this place long ago, but someone refuses to forget.

Corporate Power Versus Mom Power
By Wendy Leonard

Our fight initially started as construction began on a well pad within 600 yards of our two elementary schools. We collected 20,000 signatures, with the help of Food & Water Watch, begging Encana Corporation not to drill next to where our children would be spending most of their days.  We also held a peaceful protest at the beginning of June, rallying approximately 300 people together with music and speakers. We had support from Angela Monti-Fox, Sierra Club, Mark Ruffalo and Natalie Merchant.

Confronting Energy Tyranny
By Ceal Smith

An aggressive energy boom is sweeping across the country. And although the technologies are new, the consequences for the people and the planet are familiar. For those of us caught in the crosshair, hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) and massively scaled, remote-concentrated solar are two of the newest yet most disastrous dangers being forced upon our communities and the planet. 

One City, Two Worlds
By Lisa Arkin

Josefina lives close to the train tracks in West Eugene, Oregon. As a Latina, a mother and a person who lives among rows of industrial polluters, she knows why her family does not enjoy clean air and water. “When we take our children to the playground, the smell of chemicals overwhelms us,” she says. “We can’t stay outside. It’s awful . . . as if a wall of chemical gas is enveloping us.”

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