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Forum Post: Meanwhile, Back in Frackademia.

Posted 10 years ago on June 12, 2013, 2:57 p.m. EST by shoozTroll (17632)
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The University of Tennessee's Cumberland Forest will be fracked for fun and profit.

the Cumberland Forest owned by University of Tennessee-Knoxville will be leased off to the oil and gas industry this August in a new form of "frackademia" - and one of the top financial beneficiaries will be the family of Republican Gov. Bill Haslam, who sits on UT-Knoxville's Board of Trustees.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/16923-frackademia-university-of-tennessee-set-to-lease-forest-for-fracking-enriching-governors-family

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[-] 2 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 10 years ago

This is legitimately huge news.

We formally launched today that we're teaming up with CREDO and Rainforest Action Network to train 100,000 Americans in peaceful civil disobedience to stop the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline - and our first civil disobedience action is this Monday in Chicago.

Let's let the world know ASAP: sign up for our Thunderclap campaign here to let all your friends know it's coming.

Thank you for all you do to make this movement real.

Sincerely,

John Sellers, The Other 98%

[-] 0 points by gameon (-51) 10 years ago

aint it great, the prez is going to circumvent congress and our system of govt. oh happy day s/o

[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 10 years ago

Just how is the prez circumventing?

Got nothing to say about Boner or Bitch or Ayn Ryan or or or or?

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[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 10 years ago

I have just left the historic Old North building at Georgetown University where under a blazing hot sun President Obama delivered a rousing speech laying out his second-term plans for climate action.

Before the speech, I had the honor of meeting with the President. From what he told me and from what he told the nation, I am leaving campus more hopeful and energized about our chances to prevent climate catastrophe than I have been in a long while.

But even with President Obama's vital leadership, we must heed his call to do our part to stand together and provide stalwart grassroots support. That's the only way we are going to beat back the cynics and and the skeptics who oppose action at every turn.

Please take the first step by sending President Obama our thanks for his leadership. Let him know you're part of the movement to secure a safer climate future.

The President had it exactly right when he said "We can figure this out... as long as we don't fear the future and instead we seize it."

The President's plan offers a comprehensive approach to tackling the climate crisis. The centerpiece will be tough standards to slash climate pollution from America's new and existing power plants — the largest source of carbon pollution in America.

This follows standards finalized in his first term to double America's fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks. The President is also proposing to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and unlock energy efficiency innovation, among many other action items.

In the coming days, weeks, and months, I and the entire EDF team look forward to working with the Obama Administration to turn these proposals into concrete actions and secure the strongest possible carbon pollution standards for power plants.

We wouldn't be here without you. Your continued engagement in our push for climate action is making a huge difference.

On this historic day, please share your voice and join me in sending our thanks to President Obama for providing the important leadership we need on this urgent environmental issue.

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What I added to the letter:

PS - Get all members of government ( state and federal ) to work on ending the export of Oil Gasoline LNG - as this is being done for Fossil Fuel Profits "ALONE" and seriously undermines the efforts to reduce Atmospheric Pollution - we need to reduce drilling and fracking ( as we move to end it completely ) NOT EXPAND. You want natural gas??? Work on getting/making it safely for our environment = AIR SOIL & Ground water. Capture sewer gas and landfill gas and create gas with recycling bio material = waste from farm crops and such ( then recycle the plant matter back to the fields as NATURAL Fertilizer ).

End Fossil Fuel subsidies and double down on clean tech green tech - Power generation - Fuel - transportation - Industry.

[-] 0 points by Nevada1 (5843) 10 years ago

Shameful. The greed infection continues to spread.

[-] 5 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

The fact that so few notice it is pretty shameful too.

http://www.southernenvironment.org/cases/fracking_in_the_cumberland_forest

http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/06/11/frackademia-university-tennessee-now-fracking-land-leasing-agency

And of course a petition.

https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=543

I'm sure some of the forum detractors will tell you it doesn't matter, but it does. Petitions are one of the few things that do.

[-] 3 points by Narley (272) 10 years ago

Shooz, for all our differences, this is one issue we seem to agree on 100%. Fracking has the potential to destroy our waster systems. Where I live there is an underground river, called the Edwards Aquifer, ir supplies water to millions of people and agriculture. I have nightmare about fracking polluting the aquifer and making the water unusable.

Fracking is one of the few issues I’m willing to join in public protests, and even riots if that’s what it takes. WE HAVE TO STOP FRACKING, any way we an.

[-] 3 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

What differences?

Did you miss the thread on acid jobs?

If you think "normal" fracking is bad, you missed a big thread.

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[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

In March, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) obtained 273 pages of internal UT-Knoxville communications records via Tennessee's Open Records Act. The records revealed that regardless of the environmental community's stance on the campus drilling proposal, "their actions will not sway the Governor's resolve/support" for fracking the Cumberland Forest.

Given the Haslam family's industry connections, the statement is unsurprising. In addition to the family ties, the emails also show one of the key behind-the-scenes pushers of fracking on UT-Knoxville's Cumberland Forest land was Bryan Kaegl.


People need to examine who the hell it is they are hiring. You really are marrying the family.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Who said it was just the Chinese who tend to marry for social position and economics?

[-] 0 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

I know, right? You have emails, you have proof and yet, they keep on rolling right through.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

That's what happens when you have the backing of the Koch's and their legislative arm, ALEC.

Speaking of fracking, were you surprised by how quickly "acid jobs" in California were buried around here?

[-] 0 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Not at all.

[-] 1 points by Nevada1 (5843) 10 years ago

Agree, so many people have their head in a hole in the dirt. They will squawk when it finally hurts them, but then it will be to late.

And yes, petitions are of great importance.

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