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  • Constitution Pipeline Permit Denied

    - April 22, 2016, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network On April 22, the New York Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion refused to issue a water qual­i­ty per­mit for the Con­sti­tu­tion Pipeline, a 124 mile pipeline that would’ve car­ried nat­ur­al gas from the Mar­cel­lus shale in Penn­syl­va­nia to New York State.   Accom­pa­nied by heav­i­ly armed U.S. Mar­shals wear­ing bul­let­proof vests, a Con­sti­tu­tion Pipeline…

  • Water Abuse in the Fracking Process

    - by Alex Lotor­to, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Water is used in shale gas devel­op­ment from cra­dle to grave, how­ev­er, most peo­ple don’t think about it beyond the issues of ground­wa­ter contamination. Procur­ing and bring­ing raw mate­ri­als like sil­i­ca sand, steel, cement, and frack­ing chem­i­cals to the well loca­tions requires an incred­i­ble amount of man­u­fac­tur­ing, trans­porta­tion,…

  • Eviction of Mobile Home Park for Fracking Water

    - by Alex Lotor­to, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Riverdale Mobile Home Park was locat­ed on the Susque­han­na Riv­er in Piatt Town­ship, Jer­sey Shore, Penn­syl­va­nia. Res­i­dents were ordered to leave the park in March 2012 by Aqua PVR LLC, a project of Aqua Amer­i­ca, a pri­vate water util­i­ty, and Penn Vir­ginia Resources, a nat­ur­al gas pipeline company. …

  • Fracking Wastewater Treatment Facility Proposed in Pennsylvania

     — by Nicole Mul­vaney, Decem­ber 10, 2014, Times of Trenton An Israeli water recy­cling com­pa­ny is propos­ing a haz­ardous waste treat­ment facil­i­ty about 6 miles south­west of Tren­ton across the Delaware Riv­er in the Key­stone Indus­tri­al Port Complex. Elcon Recy­cling Cen­ter, which has an office in West Wind­sor, went before rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Pennsylvania’s Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal…

  • Why We Must Fight Gas-fired Power Plants

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network The Ban Ki Moon U.N. Cli­mate Sum­mit is short­ly com­ing to New York City. As we march and teach work­shops at cli­mate con­ver­gences, the media is like­ly to focus on the sto­ry of the Oba­ma administration’s “Clean Pow­er Plan” mov­ing us away from coal in order to mit­i­gate cli­mate change. The sto­ry won’t be told…

  • Energy Justice Summer: Standing With Communities in the Shalefields

    - by Ener­gy Jus­tice Summer This sum­mer youth have gath­ered in the shale gas region of North­east­ern Penn­syl­va­nia to facil­i­tate train­ings, com­pile reports, and to fight for the safe­ty of landown­ers, work­ers, and the environment. Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer is based in Susque­han­na Coun­ty in order to direct­ly con­nect with the com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers impact­ed by shale gas…

  • Join Energy Justice Summer in Northeast Pennsylvania!

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer Pro­mo from Alex Lotor­to on Vimeo. Ener­gy Jus­tice Sum­mer Pro­mo from Alex Lotor­to on Vimeo. From www.energyjusticesummer.org: About We are young orga­niz­ers who care deeply about social jus­tice and human rights. We seek a world where every­one has access to sus­tain­able ener­gy and no one suf­fers unjust­ly because of our fos­sil fuel econ­o­my. We believe that frack­ing…