Natural Gas production is causing a huge sore to form in northeastern Ohio. Folks are decimated as the nation continues to intensify local production of fossil fuels from unconventional sources, such as literally squeezing gas out of rock with the new technique Hydraulic Fracturing, or fracking for short. Groundwater has been contaminated by natural gas drilling activities, examples include Sublette County, Wyoming and Dimock, Pennsylvania. The oil and gas industry is exempt from federal hazardous waste regulations, as well as parts of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, and others, as given by an in depth "report on oil and gas exemptions" by the Environmental Working Group.

anuary 5, 2009
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates
Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling

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* The following article was originally published on Jan. 30 2009 in El Mundo, a Caracas daily. Written by a member of the editorial collective of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario , it calls attention to what we fear is a bloody attack against these original inhabitants of the western part of the country.