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17 More Frack Fighters Arrested; Updated FracTracker Map and App; Cove Point Point Protesters Arrested
17 Arrested Fighting Fracking Infrastructure. Protests continued today at the Crestwood Midstream’s gas storage facility where 10 Schuyler County residents were arrested for trespassing. Today’s protest is part of a sustained, ongoing, non-violent civil disobedience campaign against the storage of fracked gas along the shores of Seneca Lake, a source of drinking water for 100,000 people. There have been 83 arrests so far during the “We Are Seneca Lake” civil disobedience campaign, now entering its sixth week.
Updated FracTracker Map of WV and Tracking App for iPhones. FracTracker Alliance announces the release of our free iPhone app – designed to collect and share experiences related to oil and gas drilling across the United States. As unconventional drilling or “fracking” intensifies, so too do the innovative ways in which citizens can track, monitor, and report potential issues from their smart phones.
Cove Point Protectors Arrested By Dominion. Early this morning, residents of Lusby and their allies picketed in front of the construction site for a temporary pier that will be used to bring large pieces of equipment in to build a refinery and liquefied fracked gas export terminal across the street from the community of Cove Point.
