https://vimeo.com/277561700 On Monday, Sane Energy joined our allies at Beyond Extreme Energy in Washington D.C. for the Crack FERC Open action where two bamboo 15 foot tall “fracked gas drilling rigs” with protesters locked inside were set up to blockade the entrance in front of the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) building to prevent business as usual to operate. It wasn’t the first time we’ve been there. For years we’ve traveled down to DC with communities being harmed by … [Read more...]

On Monday May 14, Governor Andrew Cuomo was the keynote speaker at the New York League of Conservation Voters’ (NYLCV) 2018 Gala. As reported on by LittleSis, employees of Millennium, a company building a fracked gas pipeline in New York, are on the NYLCV board, and the organization has received substantial funding from other fossil fuel companies like Williams, which is also proposing to build a fracked gas pipeline through NY Harbor. NYLCV lauded Cuomo’s climate achievements, but to many … [Read more...]

  https://vimeo.com/268610669 On April 26, New Yorkers packed a conference room at the Best Western hotel in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to provide public comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on the agency’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) of the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline. Williams has proposed to build a 23-mile long pipeline that will carry fracked gas under New York harbor and into New York City. The pipeline would run along the coast of … [Read more...]

https://vimeo.com/267452292 On April 23, the day after Earth Day, over 1500 New Yorkers rallied and marched in Albany to call on New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo to show real climate leadership. Their day of action, called Cuomo Walk The Talk On Climate, highlighted three demands: 1.Halt all fracked gas infrastructure 2.Move swiftly and justly to 100% renewables 3.Make corporate polluters pay Eyeing a potential presidential bid, Governor Cuomo has often tried to portray himself … [Read more...]

Join the fight to stop fracked gas infrastructure in New York.  For years New York Governor Andrew Cuomo couldn’t go anywhere without the anti-fracking movement being there. He couldn’t even have a birthday party without folks outside calling on him to ban fracking. And on December 17, 2014 Governor Cuomo listened to the people of New York and the overwhelming science that said there is no safe way to frack, and banned fracking in New York State. It was an … [Read more...]

https://vimeo.com/256722342 “He needs to put it in his neighborhood,” said Nancy Young when asked how she felt about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to build a fracked gas power plant in her community of Sheridan Hollow. The proposed plan is to have two 7.9 megawatt fracked gas fired turbines power and heat Empire State Plaza, the massive 89-acre Albany capitol-building complex where the Governor and his administration work from daily. “It remains a mystery to us why the Governor … [Read more...]

The Fracked Gas Power Plant at the Center of the Percoco Trial https://vimeo.com/252633924 Last week, New Yorkers from Orange County fighting to stop the massive CPV fracked gas power plant had a tough decision to make. Should they go to the court hearing that could decide the fate of the pipeline that will deliver fracked gas to the plant? Or should they go to the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is accused of taking hundreds of … [Read more...]

For over a year, through the cold and heat, the citizens of Orange County have held weekly pickets outside the construction site of a massive fracked gas power plant being built in their community. https://vimeo.com/251227264 For over a year, through the cold and heat, the citizens of Orange County have held weekly pickets outside the construction site of a massive fracked gas power plant being built in their community. The CPV fracked gas power plant will emit 700 tons of known … [Read more...]

How a Handful of Environmental Activists pushed WNYC to have a Fiscal Reckoning and Drop Williams Company and Pipelines as a Sponsor This is a story of how collective perseverance, strategy and consistently showing up can and do have outsize impacts toward a positive future. This is a demonstration of grassroots activism and the power of individual agency that we each carry within ourselves. And, best of all, this is a call to empower yourself and your community, to break down the … [Read more...]