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Beyond the Frack Divide

Written by Editorial on June 6, 2013 · comment

If you're not angry about what the gas industry and its profiteering shills are doing to areas with shale gas, you probably haven't seen Triple Divide; an excellent investigative report on the unsavory underbelly of this beast in PA. Of the fifty some area residents who gave up their Saturday afternoon to attend the showing I'd arranged in Blossburg, one left about two thirds through the film. He was clearly very upset and disgusted as he approached the filmmakers and me near the concession stand where we stood watching. He said something about the futility of opposing the industry which would get away with whatever it wanted. As an afterthought he turned and ironically added, "You're doing a good job."[...] Read more »

Investigative Reports »

Water Impacts of the 21st Century in 3 minutes

by Joshua B. Pribanic on June 17, 2013 · comment

Water in the Anthropocene is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch [...]

Top Secret Documents Leaked Reveal Massive Surveillance of Americans

by Joshua B. Pribanic on June 10, 2013 · comment

“A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails Shared from Common Dreams, Published on Friday, June 7, 2013 by Democracy Now! The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine [...]

Methane & Fracking’s Impact on Climate Change

by Joshua B. Pribanic on June 10, 2013 · comment

Gas Planet: The Impact of the Natural Gas Boom on Climate Change. by the series Gas Planet for The Allegheny Front Why Methane is a Potent Greenhouse Gas by Reid R. Frazier in the series Gas Planet for The Allegheny [...]