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Massey WV Coal Battle Take 2: Erie, Co Citizens Fight Fracking
http://www.nationofchange.org/massey-wv-coal-battle-take-two-erie-co-citizens-fight-fracking-1338642933
Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"
for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal — the two battles are one in the same and direct parallels of one another.
On June 2, a coalition of activist organizations led by Erie Rising and joined by the likes of the Sierra Club, the Mark Ruffalo-lead Water Defense, the Angela Monti Fox-lead Mothers Project (mother of "Gasland" Producer and Director, Josh Fox), Food and Water Watch (FWW), among others, will take to Erie, CO to say "leave and leave now" to EnCana Corporation.
EnCana has big plans to drill baby drill in Erie.
It "plans to frack for natural gas near three local schools and a childcare center," according to a press release disseminated by FWW. "On June 2, the event in Erie will give voice to those immediately affected by fracking there, and to all Americans marred by the process, becoming ground zero for the national movement to expose the dangers associated with fracking."