Fracking and environmental justice | New Report on Ecological Footprints | 3 in a series
Courtesy of Lauren Musiello New report documents ecological footprint of fracking TOXIC WASTE IN THE BILLIONS OF GALLONS Devon G. Peña | Shoreline, WA | October 7, 2013 Our last work in this series was posted on May 30 2013 and was an op-ed piece prepared by Dakota elder Faith Spotted Eagle in which she discussed how the Keystone XL pipeline project as an example of how “environmental racism clearcuts the way for American economic development”. The indigenous call for an end to environmental racism of the capitalist energy sector is all the more poignant in the light of a new scientific report that analyzes the ecological impacts of fracking. The report, which was released last Thursday (October 3), was prepared by Environment America Research and Policy Center (EARPC) and is entitled, Fracking by the Numbers . It is said to be “the first report to measure the damaging footprint of fracking to date” but this claim is not necessarily accurate. We reported earlier in this se...