Can a Small Community Throw a Monkey Wrench Into the Global Fracking Machine?
http://www.alternet.org/fracking/can-small-community-throw-monkey-wrench-global-fracking-machine
While New Yorkers anxiously await Governor Andrew Cuomos decision on whether to lift the states de facto moratorium on high-volume slick-water horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, Woodstock, the iconic counter-culture capital of the world, has become the first municipality to call for legislation to make fracking a Class C felony.
Woodstocks action is just one small towns response to a rapidly escalating global war over fracking. To both sides in this warenvironmentalists and citizens who oppose fracking on the one side and the gas industry and its supporters on the otherthe upcoming ruling to allow or ban fracking in New York is being viewed as (you should pardon the expression) a watershed event.
Decisions made in Albany and in towns like Woodstock will likely determine whether fracking goes full steam ahead everywhere, or whether its momentum can be slowed or even stopped. New York, after all, has a rich history of environmental activism and democratic movements, and anti-fracking activism has spread like wildfire over the last couple of years. New York is also home to abundant supplies of clean freshwater, an essential resource that is in crisis globally and that could be endangered by the practice.
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