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Related: About this forumFossil Fuel Chemical Supplier Shut Down By Fracking Protesters
http://ecowatch.com/2013/fossil-fuel-chemical-supplier-shut-down-fracking-protesters/
On the edge of the western mountain range in Morganton, NC, protesters with Croatan Earth First! are currently occupying an industrial manufacturing facility owned by Momentive and located at 114 Industrial Drive. North Carolinians, who have been fighting to prevent hydraulic fracturing from coming to central North Carolina are joined in this action by people from around the country who also oppose shale gas extraction nationwide.
Momentive is one of the largest worldwide distributors of resin coated proppants, a necessary component for high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. These chemicals are mixed with millions of gallons of freshwater during the fracking process and are designed to keep the fractures in rock or shale formations open, during or following a fracturing treatment. Each fracturing stage requires approximately 136 tons of proppants.
We are here to send a message to the oil and gas industries: we will not stand idly by as you destroy this land, or any other, for your personal profit. Respect existence, or expect resistance, said an Earth First! activist.
The North Carolina Legislature plans to begin permitting frack sites as early as March 2015 in the Cumnock Shale Basin located underneath Lee, Moore, Chatham and surrounding counties. Fracking has been tied to water aquifer contamination in Pavilion, WY, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study and linked to high levels of methane in Pennsylvania water wells according to a study by Duke University. Researchers with Cornell University found that fracking operations nationwide released massive amounts of methane (a greenhouse gas) straight into the atmosphere, and concluded that, if not curbed, would speed climate change faster than carbon emissions
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Fossil Fuel Chemical Supplier Shut Down By Fracking Protesters (Original Post)
eridani
Jul 2013
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xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)1. I hate fracking and mountain top removal and strip mining
and I hate RepubliCONs.
Response to eridani (Original post)
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)3. K&R. nt