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CAMPUS DRILLING, SOON TO COME?

[SLIPPERY ROCK, PA] On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Slippery Rock students and community members gathered to discuss Hydraulic Fracturing at Slippery Rock University, the new Senate Bill 367 which opened state owned land and public university land to drilling and associated processes, and the implications of these activities on the campus and community.  Efforts of the student group, SRU Students for Sustainability, supported by the Sierra Student Coalition led to the success of this event and a turnout of over 40 people. 

Student organizer, Alexandra Bowling, commented "This topic is sweeping the Pennsylvania nation. Everyone should be aware of the process and effects of Marcellus Shale drilling, including non-Pennsylvania residents. What first got me interested in Hydraulic Fracking was the idea that the process can harm the water quality around the affected area. People deserve the right to clean, drinking water."

Update: Join a Youth Call this Thursday May 31st at 9 ET to get updates on the action, and prep with dozens of other youth leaders who are organizing for Don't Frack Ohio. RSVP and get the call information on Facebook.

Great News: as of this weekend, there are now over 1,000 people signed up to be a part of the Don’t Frack Ohio Action in June, and close to 200 of them are students!!

People are joining the action for all kinds of reasons: they’re disgusted at the way our democracy has been sold to the fracking industry, worried about feeding our addiction to fossil fuels on a warming planet, or just plain scared of how fracking will destroy our way of life.

If you haven’t heard yet… it’s about to get HOT in Ohio this summer. Not just the post-finals-week-at-the-beach kinda hot… we’re talking about something even better; the politically-hot-cause-we’re-taking-the-fracking-industry-to-task-and-making-’em-sweat-on-home-turf HOTT. OSEC is kicking off summer vacation by teaming up with 350.org for Don’t Frack Ohio: a long weekend full of movement building strategies, trainings, and especially a big huge action that’s gonna rock Ohio’s statehouse the way earthquakes rocked Youngstown last fall (but better).

You might be asking yourself.. “Ohio? What’s so important about Ohio?” …. Well, Ohio and the Midwest, are Ground Zero for the Climate Fight, and Ohio especially has become the new front-line for the movement to end fracking; in just two years Ohio has gone from 4 permitted horizontally fracked wells to over 85, and the industry doesn’t plan on stopping until it hits a few thousand. Which means OSEC students aren’t planning on stopping anytime soon either; check out what we’ve done since Midwest PowerShift, and join us in Ohio June 14th-17th.

From June 14-16th students, community members, and activists from across Ohio and around the country are converging in Columbus to build a movement through trainings, story telling, and workshops… AND on June 17th WE are taking over the OHIO Statehouse, demanding a BAN on Fracking and ALL injection wells.

Stopping the industry in Ohio has major implications for the entire nation, that is why we are asking YOU to join US in OHIO! We will also be joined by inspiring leaders, like Bill McKibben & Josh Fox.