NEW YORK BANS FRACKING! :) :) :) :) It Takes A Movement ~ A Message from Josh Fox Friends We win in New York! I repeat, we win a BAN on fracking in New York State. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s health commissions says fracking cannot be done safely and no fracking will happen in NY until the industry proves that fracking is safe. Which they can’t, because it isn’t. The burden of proof is now on the gas industry, that’s quite a reversal. That’s a ban. This is a huge win for our movement and it is a huge win for science itself, because it was the science that proved what we’ve been saying for more than 7 years. If it was not for our movement there would not have been any science on the subject. It was citizen pressure that woke up the world- a world made up of town meetings, grassroots activism, scientists, artists, activists, and just plain regular folks. When I first set out to make GASLAND in 2008, there was very little science on fracking at all. And yet people like John Fenton in Wyoming, Calvin Tillman and Sharon Wilson in Texas, the Ely and Gee Families in Pennsylvania kept pushing. They said there’s something wrong with our water. There’s something wrong with our air. We need science to come in and tell us we’re not going crazy. Science told them today in New York that they’re not only sane, but their voices are on the side of justice and change. Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy released a working paper analysis, statistical evaluation of the approximately 400 peer-reviewed studies to date on the impacts of shale gas development. In short, they examined what percentage of papers indicated risk/adverse impacts versus no indication of risk . Key highlights include: -96% of all papers on health indicate risks/adverse health outcomes. -95% of all original research studies on air quality indicate elevated concentrations of air pollutants. -72% of original research studies on water quality indicate contamination -And there is a recent explosion in the number of peer-reviewed publications, with approximately 73% of all available peer-reviewed papers published in the past 24 months and a current average of one paper published each day. I’m emerging from five days in the Peruvian Amazon shooting for my new film on Climate Change. I just spent three days deeps in the jungle filming two horrific oil spills. This entire section of the Amazon River is considered an environmental disaster zone. As a river basin person myself living in the Delaware river basin, it is excruciating to see the spoiled fisheries, the communities devastated by drilling and pipelines. It’s a horrifying situation that should not be visited upon anyone on earth. The victory in New York should be a major turning point in our movement. We will continue to fight and we will continue to win. This year Denton, Texas, the birthplace of fracking banned fracking by popular vote. Now New York. We keep racking up wins. But we cannot let up the pressure. We can’t site back and relax. No way. We must fight for the transition to renewable energy- the real energy independence. The real ban on fracking is when we replace the fuels. It is communities like the ones here in Peru and the ones in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arkansas- indeed all across the map, that will continue to suffer until we do. But we can make it happen. We’re the anti-fracking movement. We win. That’s what we do. We’re relentless. We stop at nothing. We will continue to fight and we will continue to win. But we can all rejoice. This is as big as it gets. We just sent an uncompromising message across the whole wide world. Movements work. Celebrate. Congratulations and much much love, Josh Fox nofrackingway.us/2014/12/17/governor-cuomo-saves-new-york-from-getting-fracked/
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:37:26 +0000
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