Hi all,
We have less than 55 minutes to help the Green Guerrillas win. We can do
this. If you believe the nation should be educated about natural gas
drilling and Hydro Fracking please vote. If you believe a talented group
of youth should be given the chance to make a movie about an important
issue that will affect you, them and their children then please vote. If
you believe that it takes a village, please vote.
It takes less than 2 minutes. The deadline is tonight. You can email me
if you need any assistance.
Thank you!!!
Liz
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HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE (deadline is today, Dec 1)
1. go to:
http://youtopia.uservoice.com/pages/33743-environment-conservation/suggestions/386609-natural-gas-clean-enough-to-drink-?ref=title
2. hit the SIGN UP button (top right corner, under YOU DECIDE WHAT
THE WORLD NEEDS NOW) you will then be transferred to a screen that gives
you 3 options:
a) sign in using an existing account on Facebook, Twitter,
Google (gmail), Yahoo, Myspace, Wordpress, and a few other social
networking sites (proceed to step 3)
b) sign in to an existing UserVoice account (proceed to step 3)
c) sign up for a new UserVoice account -- choose this option if
you can't choose (a) or (b)
3. VOTE
a) click on "Environment & Conservation" in the right-hand column.
b) click on the blue word "vote" to the left of "Natural Gas... clean
enough to drink?" You can give them up to three votes.
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more about them and their project...
Natural Gas... clean enough to drink? Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech
Collective organizes broad-based constituencies to re-think fossil fuel
dependency and challenge false solutions to climate justice. We reveal
the role mainstream media plays in promoting sweat shops over
sustainable style, genetically modified crops over locally-grown organic
foods, and pollution and prisons over sustainability and social change.
We want help creating an online movie that challenges natural gas as a
transition fuel and exposes the irreversible environmental damage that
drilling in the Marcellus Shale (our backyard) will have on our air,
soil, and water, threatening animal, human, and plant life for many
generations to come.
WHY is this so important? Since 2008, over 4,000 gas wells have been
drilled in Pennsylvania. Farmers in southwestern section of the state
blame cattle deaths and mutations on local hydraulic fracturing. Other
community complaints include tainted water, children getting sick, skin
rashes, and neurological disorders.
Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in Dimock, PA has released
methane into the water supply, drinking water wells have exploded, and
others were found to contain so much gas that one homeowner was told to
open a window if he planned to take a bath.
In three separate spills at the Heitsman well (south of Montrose, PA)
about 8,000 gallons of a carcinogenic chemical -- used to ease
resistance in gas well production -- polluted a wetland and caused a
fish kill in Stevens Creek. The chemical, LGC-35 CBM, is manufactured
by Halliburton. It dissolves in water (making cleanup extremely
difficult), has led to skin cancer in animals and "may cause headache,
dizziness and other central nervous system effects" to anyone who
breathes or swallows it according to the Material Safety Data Sheets for
LGC-35 CBM
The Green Guerrillas are truly an inspirational group of youth who have
already created a few incredible "blockumentaries" about sustainability.
To learn more about them you can check out:
http://changents.com/green-guerrillas &
http://www.guerrilla-griots.org/greenguerrillas.html
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