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In a current article titled, The Wrong Kind of Green, Johann Hari documents how over the last couple of decades, those big “environmental” organizations we always thought were acting in our interests have gradually become “owned” – that is, primarily influenced – by big corporate polluters. It’s reached the point where groups like Sierra Club and NRDC are actively, conspicuously partnering with corporations like Chesapeake and people like T Boone Pickens who are destroying the places we call home across the nation and around the world.
Tuesday, March 9: New York City activists set the record straight on NRDC's real position regarding gas drilling. NRDC wants to prevent it in special places where special people would be affected, but seeks for it to be only "better regulated" everywhere else
Many of us have given our hard-earned money to these organizations to save other places only to find now that they’re promoting shale gas extracted from our own home regions as a “bridge fuel.” The experience of other states across the country proves incontrovertibly that getting this bridge-to-nowhere fuel out of the ground, no matter how well the process is regulated, guarantees the destruction of land, water, air, and human & animal health. It also converts agricultural and forest land into a blighted industrial zone.
We don’t want the industrialization of New York’s rural areas
to be “better regulated.”We want the only thing that will keep New York’s central regions
beautiful, healthy places to live, farm,
and raise our children and grandchildren.
We want a statewide ban.Click on image to go to story and comments at indymedia.org
Tags: NRDC, Sierra Club, statewide ban
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